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Wiley India Pvt Ltd Rocks And Rock Minerals by Dietrich Richard V. Et.Al
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, hand-specimen 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.