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THE BOOKS ABOUT ROCKS AND MINERALS YOU NEED TO READ
BTW: Do you want to know more about rock and mineral identification? The books listed below are the best ones you can find on the internet (Amazon links):
- Smithsonian Handbooks: Rocks & Minerals
- Gemstone & Crystal Properties (Quick Study Home)
- Ultimate Explorer Field Guide: Rocks and Minerals (National Geographic Kids)
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- Petrified Wood: The Complete Identification, Value & Rockhounding GuidePetrified wood is a fossil in which the original wood has been replaced by minerals, mostly quartz, while keeping its rings and grain. Silica-rich pieces …
- Geode: The Complete Formation, Identification & Value GuideA geode is a hollow, roughly spherical rock – usually formed from a gas bubble in volcanic rock or a cavity in sedimentary limestone – …
- Colorado Rockhounding: The Complete Guide to Rocks, Minerals & GemsThis guide covers the best rockhounding sites in Colorado, the 21 rocks and minerals you are most likely to find, and the land rules that …
- Oregon Rockhounding: The Complete Guide to Rocks, Minerals & GemsThis guide covers the best places to rockhound in Oregon, the rocks and minerals you are most likely to find, and the collecting limits that …
- Agate: The Complete Formation, Identification & Value GuideAgate is a banded variety of chalcedony (microcrystalline quartz), built up in fine layers inside gas pockets in volcanic and metamorphic rock, and it typically …
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- Moonstone: The Complete Formation, Identification & Value GuideMoonstone is a variety of the feldspar minerals orthoclase and albite, prized for adularescence – the floating, moonlight-like sheen created by microscopic layers of the …
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