An Instant Guide to Rocks & Minerals by Eva Fejer and Cecilia Fitzsimons
An Instant Guide to Rocks & Minerals is an ideal compact identification guide to the rocks, minerals, and crystals found on the shore, in the desert, in national parks, on old mine tips, in yards and in the stone and stone-faced buildings of North America. this user-friendly guide assumes no previous knowledge: an easy-to-follow system of color-coded bands and symbols designating type of rock and hardness of mineral leads quickly to the correct section of the book. Detailed full-color illustrations and a concise but informative text that includes details of principal U.S. locations allow you to identify accurately the most familiar rocks and minerals of North America. Hard cover, 4" x 7", 125 pages.