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100			_aDietrich, Richard V.
245			_aRocks and rock minerals / _cRichard V. Dietrich and Brian J. Skinner.
260			_aNew Delhi : _bJohn Wiley, _c2014.
300			_axi, 319 p. : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
505			_aChapter 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.
520			_aA 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.
650			_aPetrology.
650			_aMineralogy.
700			_aSkinner, Brian J.
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