A Field Guide to Rocks and MineralsHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 1996 - 396 ページ The definitive guide to rocks and minerals, completely updated for the fifth edition, includes 385 color photographs showing rocks, minerals, and geologic formations. Hundreds of minerals are described, with details such as geographic formations. Hundreds of minerals are described, with details such as geographic distribution, physical properties, chemical composition, and crystalline structures. |
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Your Mineral Collection | 1 |
Rocks and Minerals and Where to Find Them | 12 |
Physical Properties of Minerals | 42 |
Crystal Classifications | 58 |
The Chemical Classification of Minerals | 71 |
1 | 78 |
PART II | 88 |
Elements | 97 |
Carbonates | 182 |
37 | 186 |
42 | 188 |
50 | 188 |
Nitrates | 201 |
Sulfates | 208 |
Phosphates Arsenates Vanadates and Uranates | 226 |
Tungstates Wolframates and Molybdates | 263 |
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abundant alteration aluminum amphibole arsenic associated azurite basal bead bipyramidal blowpipe blue Brazil Brittle brown calcite calcium California carbonate charcoal cleavage cleavage perfect cobalt collectors color colorless common commonly Composition copper crusts crys Crystal description crystals are found cubic deposits Distinguishing characteristics embedded Environment feldspar flame fluorescent fluorite fracture conchoidal fracture uneven gemmy grains granite gray green greenish hardness heating Hexagonal hydrochloric acid Hydrous igneous iron lava light limestone limonite lithiophilite Luster Luster glassy Luster metallic magma magnetic magnetite manganese masses massive metamorphic Mexico mica Minas Gerais mineral mines Monoclinic nitric acid Occurrence Orthorhombic oxide pegmatites phosphates Physical properties pinacoid pink Pough prismatic prisms quartz rare Rhombic bipyramidal rhombohedral rhyolite rocks schist secondary sedimentary silicate SiO2 sodium soluble solution sometimes specific gravity specimens streak subconchoidal sulfate sulfide sulfur surface symmetry tals Tests tion tourmaline transparent to translucent twinned ultraviolet usually veins weathering yellow zeolite