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Rocks and Minerals

Contributor(s): Series: eyewonderPublisher: London : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2025Copyright date: ©2003Edition: Third Edition, 2025Description: 56 pages : colour photographs ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780241732229
Other title:
  • Eyewonder rocks and minerals
  • DK Eyewonder rocks and minerals : open your eyes to a world of discovery
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 23 552
Contents:
Rocky earth -- A volcanic beginning -- Making of a rock -- Igneous rock -- Sedimentary rock -- Metamorphic rock -- Rocks from space -- Hidden beauty -- Breakdown -- Carving a path -- Crystals -- What agem! -- Precious metals -- Get that metal! -- Rocks in art -- Using rocks -- Building rocks -- A touch of mystery -- History in a rock -- Hunting for rocks -- What does it make? -- What's this? -- A safe path -- Facts match -- Hunt that treasure!.
Summary: "See how rocks form, find out what minerals are, and explore the hundreds of uses we have for them."--Provided by publisher
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Includes index

"Open your eyes to a world of discovery."-- Cover.

"Dig down deep to uncover the treasures that lie beneath your feet."-- Back cover.

Rocky earth -- A volcanic beginning -- Making of a rock -- Igneous rock -- Sedimentary rock -- Metamorphic rock -- Rocks from space -- Hidden beauty -- Breakdown -- Carving a path -- Crystals -- What agem! -- Precious metals -- Get that metal! -- Rocks in art -- Using rocks -- Building rocks -- A touch of mystery -- History in a rock -- Hunting for rocks -- What does it make? -- What's this? -- A safe path -- Facts match -- Hunt that treasure!.

"See how rocks form, find out what minerals are, and explore the hundreds of uses we have for them."--Provided by publisher

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