Rocks and Minerals
- ISBN-10
- 0307614573
- ISBN-13
- 9780307614575
- Series
- Rocks and Minerals
- Category
- Science
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1974
- Publisher
- Western Publishing Company
- Authors
- Alice Martin, Bertha M. Parker
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.
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