Rosie Hankin

A beautiful, colorful, and descriptive identification book useful to anyone studying geology in earth science class. The book gives a geological background of Earth and explains how to identify and collect rocks and minerals. The Moh's hardness scale is provided and explained. The properties of crystals are given in a table. Each characteristic used to identify minerals is explained in detail. A gem, crystal and mineral color key is given for easy identification. What follows are beautiful photos of gems, crystals, rocks and minerals with details of each characteristic that applies and all divided into sections. This book is a great addition to the earth science classroom.… (meer)