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This is a valuable introduction to mineralogy and related specialities such as petrology, crystallography and soil science. Discoveries in these fields are described in a historical context, while the authors explain what minerals and rocks are, how they are distributed, how we depend on them and where to see the most beautiful specimens.
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"An increasing number of enthusiasts are attracted by the rich variety of rocks and minerals around us, and new ways of looking at them. In this book, Walther Cloos views the Earth as a living organism, with different kingdoms of nature - mineral, plant and animal - as stages left behind as the earth developed. He argues that everything currently inert and static was once dynamic and living."--Back cover.
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This book, conceived by N.M.S., is patterned after "The Atlas and Glossary of Primary Sedimentary Structures" by F. J. Pettijohn and P. E. Potter. We introduce this atlas with a chapter by the late Arie Poldervaart treating the principal concepts of volcanoes as landforms, followed by a main section of photographs of volcanic structures and features arranged in 198 Plates, and then conclude with an updated glossary of terms associated with volcanology,...
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