TY  - GEN
AU  - Dietrich, Richard V.
AU  - Skinner, Brian J.
TI  - Rocks and rock minerals
SN  - 9788126545803
U1  - 552 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - John Wiley
KW  - Petrology.
KW  - Mineralogy
N1  - Chapter 1. Minerals and their properties--
Chapter 2. The rock-forming minerals--
Chapter 3.Determination of the rock-forming minerals--
Chapter 4. Igneous and pyroclastic rocks--
Chapter 5. Sedimentary and diagenetic rocks--
Chapter 6. Metamorphic rocks and migmatites--
Chapter 7. Other rocks and pseudo-rocks--
Chapter 8. Identification tables for rocks--
Index
N2  - A contemporary successor to the Louis V. Pirsson and Adolph Knopf editions, providing a guide and reference that explains how rocks occur, their commercial usage and how to identify them through macroscopic, handspecimen features. Gives complete coverage of rock-forming minerals, rocks and man-made, rock-like materials, as well as meteorites, impactites, grossans and more. Tables are provided for identifications based on megascopic examinations and simple field tests that require no sophisticated laboratory equipment. Plus, numerous illustrations represent rocks and rock-forming minerals as they appear in nature

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