This volume gives you the basic tools to transition from ';pebble pup' to expert rockhound and explains everything from geology basics, identification tips, tools of the trade, how to record your findings, and how to set up a lab or gem shop.
This fully updated and revised, full-color edition of Rockhounding Utah reveals the grandeur of the state's exposed formations, its canyon walls etched with fossils, and the spires and arches of the Needles District in Canyonlands National Park.
Rocks, Gems, and Minerals is a field guide to more than 100 of the most common and sought-after rocks, gems, and minerals hidden throughout North America.
Revised and updated this guide provides detailed directions and GPS coordinates to the best rockhounding sites in Washington, with valuable tips on what to tools to bring and how to conduct your search.
Revised and updated this guide provides detailed directions and GPS coordinates to the best rockhounding sites in Washington, with valuable tips on what to tools to bring and how to conduct your search.
While the chemical aspects of igneous petrology have dominated research for many years, the physical processes associated with the generation, transport, and crystallization of magma have been somewhat neglected.
Explore the mineral-rich region of Northern California with Rockhounding Northern California and unearth the states best rockhounding sites, ranging from popular and commercial sites to numerous lesser-known areas.
Rocks, Gems, and Minerals of the Rocky Mountains is a field guide to more than 130 of the most common and sought-after rocks, gems, and minerals hidden throughout the Rocky Mountains.
A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils-industrial, chemical, geological-that humans are leaving behindA Times Book of the Year * A Daily Telegraph Book of the YearWhat will the world look like ten thousand or ten million years from now?
Our lives are pretty stressful, from the mountains of work emails to the never-ending life admin, finding time to see friends and family whilst still getting in those gym workouts, and why does everyone on Instagram have all this figured out.
In seinem bahnbrechenden Werk 'Die Entstehung der Arten' präsentiert Charles Darwin seine Evolutionstheorie, die die Welt der Naturwissenschaft für immer veränderte.
Die Erfindung des Träumens - Illusion, Sehnsucht und TrugIn ›Die Erfindung des Träumens‹ entführt uns der Autor auf eine faszinierende Reise in die tiefsten Sphären des menschlichen Bewusstseins.
Der geologische Bau der Schweiz spiegelt sich in deren Landschaften wider: Während er im Mittelland und im Jura relativ einfach ist, sind in den Alpen vielfältige und hochkomplexe Strukturen anzutreffen.