Rocks, gems, and minerals
Subtitle: a guide to familiar minerals, gems, ores, and rocks
By: by Herbert S. Zim and Paul R. Shaffer ; illustrated by Raymond Perlman.
Contributors: Shaffer, Paul R. 1910-; Perlman, Raymond, ill.
Edition: Rev. and updated / revised by Jonathan P. Latimer ... [et al.].
Series: A Golden guide from St. Martin's Press
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Minerals -- Collection and preservation -- Juvenile literature.; Rocks -- Collection and preservation -- Juvenile literature.; Minerals -- Collection and preservation.; Rocks -- Collection and preservation.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: Includes information on collecting and identifying minerals, and sections on metallic, nonmetallic, gem and rock-forming minerals, and on igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.