The Complete Illustrated Guide to Minerals, Rocks & Fossils of the World - John Farndon
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The Complete Illustrated Guide to Minerals, Rocks & Fossils of the World - John Farndon
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Short Description
Features over 1200 photographs of rocks and fossils for easy identification plus more than 800 artworks, including timescales, structural artworks of rocks and minerals, and reconstructions of fossilized plants and animals. This book includes information on safe extraction, home testing techniques - all you need to build an impressive collection.
Full bibliographic data for The Complete Illustrated Guide to Minerals, Rocks & Fossils of the World
Title
The Complete Illustrated Guide to Minerals, Rocks & Fossils of the World
Authors and contributors
By (author) John Farndon, By (author) Steve Parker
Physical properties
Format: Paperback Number of pages: 512 Width: 168 mm Height: 220 mm Thickness: 28 mm Weight: 1,225 g
John Farndon is a specialist in Earth science. He has been shortlisted three times for the COPUS Science Book Prize, for books such as How the Earth Works (Dorling Kindersley) and The Book of the Brain (Hodder), as well as Rocks and Crystals (Sterling), and Rocks and Minerals (Benchmark). Steve Parker is a Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London and has worked at London's Natural History Museum. He has written more than 200 books on the natural world, biology, technology and general sciences.
Main description
Profiles rocks, minerals, and plant and animal fossils, with in-depth descriptions of their qualities and properties, an introduction to how rocks and fossils form, and how they areified.