Simon and Schuster's Guide to rocks and minerals /

Mottana, Annibale.

Simon and Schuster's Guide to rocks and minerals / Guide to rocks and minerals Rocks and minerals [text for the Italian ed.] by Annibale Mottana, Rodolfo Crespi and Giuseppe Liborio ; [English translation by Catherine Athill, Hugh Young and Simon Pleasance] ; edited by Martin Prinz, George Harlow, and Joseph Peters. - New York : Simon and Schuster, 1978. - 607 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. - Nature Guide Series . - Nature guide series. .

"The photographs ... are by Rodolfo Crespi [with some exceptions]; drawings are by Vincenzo Saletti and Raffaelo Segattini"--Collophon. "A Fireside book." Includes index.

An illustrated field guide detailing the classification, physical properties, occurrence, formation, rarity, and practical uses of more than three hundred seventy minerals and rocks.

0671244175 (paperback)

78008610


Mineralogy--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Petrology--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Minerals--Collection and preservation.
Rocks--Collection and preservation.

QE366.2, / M6713 1978