num_pages: 416
description: 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.
language: English
title: A Peterson Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt