A field guide to rocks and minerals /

• Main Author: Pough, Frederick H. (συγγραφέας.)
• Corporate Authors: National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Roger Tory Peterson Institute
• Other Authors: Scovil, Jeffrey A. (επιμελητής.)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
• Edition: 5th ed.
• Series: Peterson field guide series 7.
• Subjects: Ορυκτολογία; Ηλεκτρονικά βιβλία

Explains how to start and organize a rock collection; provides detailed descriptions of hundreds of minerals with information on geographic distribution, physical properties, chemical composition, and crystalline structures; and includes 385 color photographs.

Table of Contents:

• An introduction to the study of rocks and minerals : your mineral collection
• Rocks and minerals and where to find them : geographical distribution
• Rock classifications
• Igneous rocks
• Sedimentary rocks
• Metamorphic rocks
• Mineral environments
• Physical properties of minerals : distinguishing characteristics
• Mineral textures and outlines of aggregates
• Crystal classifications : the crystal systems
• Other forms and phenomena
• The chemical classification of minerals
• Tests, techniques, and tips
• Mineral descriptions : elements
• Sulfides and sulfosalts
• Oxides
• Halides
• Carbonates
• Nitrates
• Borates
• Sulfates
• Phosphates, arsenates, vanadates, and uranates
• Tungstates (wolframates) and molybdates
• Silicates
• Silica type
• Disilicate type
• Metasilicate types
• Pyrosilicate type
• Orthosilicate type
• Subsilicate type.