Unless otherwise noted, the books are softcover
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Rocks, Minerals, and Fossil Books
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Rubies & Sapphires, by Fred Ward ... Classic series focusing on rubies and sapphires and their outstanding features. Contains history and lore, as well as sources and buying tips. Beautiful, full-color photos throughout. This is a truly wonderful book, very informative. 64 pages
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Opals, by Fred Ward ... Classic series focusing on opals and their outstanding features. Contains history and lore, as well as sources and buying tips. Beautiful, full-color photos throughout. This is a truly wonderful book, very informative. 64 pages
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Pearls, by Fred Ward ... Classic series focusing on Pearls and their outstanding features. Contains history and lore, as well as sources and buying tips. Beautiful, full-color photos throughout. This is a truly wonderful book, very informative. 64 pages
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| The World of Fluorescent Minerals, by Stuart Schneider .. The rich and diverse world of fluorescent minerals is presented here in a comprehensive and colorful guide. This is a sweeping survey of many different fluorescent minerals found around the world and shown in daylight and under ultraviolet light. It is like taking a personal tour through a museum. The breathtaking colors are so pure and their glow is so seemingly unnatural, that they immediately capture your attention. The field of collecting these fantastic minerals is still relatively new and fresh finds are showing up regularly around the globe. This book is written for both the collector and the curious. The pictorial reference will startle the eyes with its full color pages and 977 photos, while its informative text will greatly expand the reader's knowledge. It is an essential source for enjoying and identifying fluorescent minerals. 192 pages
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Geodes of the Midwest This book explains what a geode is, tips on locating them for yourself, areas to hunt in Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri. Also how to crack and open a geode, how to clean and preserve the geode, how to display, and the minerals you can find in midwest geodes. It is spiral bound with 68 pages and 18 color photos. It is written by Edward E. Smith
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to Fossils. This is a technical and the most informative book on North American fossils I think there is available. There are a lot of maps, tons of photos, and diagrams. Lots and lots of information in a small package. The book has 846 total pages with a soft cover.
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals This is a technical and very informative book on Rocks and Minerals of North America. There are many, many color photos, diagrams, cyrstal structure, a total of 850 pages. Just one of the many reference books everyone should have in their collection
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Smithsonian Handbook of Rocks and Minerals, by Chris Pellant. This is a wonderful book. It is arranged in two parts: minerals, followed by rocks. The minerals are organized into eight main chemical groups. The mineral groups with the simplest chemistry come first, and are followed by the more complex varieties. Each separate group has a short introduction describing its general characteristics. The rocks are set out in three large recognized classes. It's a beautiful book; pictures on every page with easily understandable explanations. It has a total of 256 pages
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| Geodes, by Brad L. Cross and June Culp Zeitner .. In this book, two renowned expers share their lifelong passion for geodes and their extensive knowledge of world class geode deposits as they present the latest theories on the formation and occurrence of these amazing mineral gifts of nature. Visit the geode mines of Northern Mexico and Southern Brazil with Brad Cross. Learn the geode mining process and how the astonishing treasures hidden inside are uncovered. Travel with June as she explores vast deposits throughout the midwestern US that provide a recorded history of the ancient seas that once covered the land. This is the most comprehensive book ever written on geodes of the Americas. Over 140 full color photos. 292 pages
THIS BOOK IS HARD COVER
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| LIFE IN STONE, Fossils of the Colorado Plateau, by Christa Sadler .. Spanning the Four Corners area of the American Soutwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado), the Colorado Plateau is a remarkable landscape of impressive peaks, high plateaus, and deeply carved canyons. Locked in its colorful rock layers are the fossil remains of organisms that lived here millions of years ago. These rocks and their fossils tell stories of swamps and oceans, great slow moving rivers and wind blown sand dunes, tidal flats and tropical seas - all of which come to life as we unlock the secrets preserved in stone. Includes many photos and drawings, timeline, interesting and easy to understand text. 71 pages
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Introduction to Radioactive Minerals, by Robert Lauf, PhD. .. Collectors have long admired uranium and thorium minerals for their brilliant colors, frequently intense ultraviolet fluorescence, and rich variety of habits and associates. Radioactive minerals are also critically important to modern society as our source of nuclear energy, and understanding them is crucial to the safe disposal of radioactive waste. This book provides a systematic overview of the mineralogy of uranium and thorium, generously illustrated with nearly 200 color photos and electron micrographs of representative specimens from the author's extensive research collection. With the resurgence of interest in nuclear power, this book will be invaluable to mineral collectors as well as to nuclear scientitsts and engineers interested in radioactive deposits. 144 pages
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| Rocks and Minerals of California, by Brown, Allan & Stark ... This is a book to take into all parts of California on trips and hikes, making you knowledgeable of the rocks and minerals found, and saving hours of time by describing and picturing just those kinds found in this state. Most geologists will tell you that pictures alone can be very misleading when used to identify rocks and minerals. This is particularly true of color pictures because most rocks and minerals have a bewildering set of colors and only in the metallic minerals is color really important. for this reason it is vital to tie the pictures in with clearly developed keys that show how to use hardness, color, specific gravity, luster, textrue, crystal shapes, and so on systematically to identify what you have found. This is successfully accomplished in the book to increase your ability and understanding as a field collector.
Along with useful charts and maps that help to locate mineral deposits through out the state are 80 pages of Quadrangle Map information. The rocks and minerals each with township, range, and section numbers listed within these pages allow the reader to pinpoint the area on the specific map down to forty acres and less. 200 pages
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TRILOBITES - Common Trilobites of North America. It's hard to find a good book on fossils - this is the first I've found on Trilobites - Detailed line drawings, geologic range, Order, Family, Where Found, and comments for each. 89 pages
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Collecting Fluorescent Minerals, by Stuart Schneider .. Seeing fluorescent minerals up close for the first time is an exciting experience. The colors are so pure and the glow is so seemingly unnatural, that it is hard to believe they are natural rocks. Hundreds of glowing minerals are shown in this book, including Aragonite, Amazonite, Feldspar, Hardystonite, Leucophanite, Microcline, Smithsonite, plus many more. Over 800 beautiful color photographs illustrate how fluorescent minerals look under the UV light, and in daylight, making this an invaluable field guide. Shown are minerals from New Jersey, New York, Arizona, California as well as Canada, Mexico, Greenland, Italy, Sweden, and many other places. Included are values, a comprehensive resources section, plus helpful advice on caring for, collecting, and displaying. This is one of the most complete references available. 192 pages
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Ammonites and the other Cephalopods of the Pierre Seaway, by Larson, Jorgensen, Farrar, Larson ..
This work is written for general understanding and consolidates the latest cephalopod information available in technical journals. It includes easily understood descriptions of over 90 species, 32 genera, and 13 families of cephalopods that lived for about 12 million years in the Pierre Seaway, which extended through the interior of North America connecting the Arctic Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico. 148 pages
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| Colorado Rocks & Minerals by Dan R. Lynch & Bob Lynch ... 275 pages ... An excellent field guide for the Colorado collector. Explains the difference between a rock, mineral, crystal, mohs hardness, other interesting facts, excellent photos and one full page of information for each rock or mineral. Pocket sized, a great book.
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| Familiar Rocks and Minerals of North America, by the National Audubon Society .. Pocket guide covers 68 minerals and 12 rocks with photos, identification information, colors, environment found in, and occurence. Small book, easy to use, easy to carry in the field, very informative
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| DK Pockets GEMSTONES, by Emma Foa ... Sytematically organized for easy access to information and contains diagrams, charts, maps, glossary, and index. A super handy, compact book, lots of photos. 128 pages
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| DK Pockets Fossils, by Douglas Palmer.. sytematically organized for easy access to information and contains diagrams, charts, maps, glossary, and index. A super handy, compact book. 160 pages
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| DK Pockets Rocks and Minerals, by Sue Fuller .. sytematically organized for easy access to information and contains diagrams, charts, maps, glossary, and index. A super handy, compact book. 160 pages
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DK Pockets Earth Facts, by Cally Hall & Scarlet O'Hara ... Excellent reference books, full of information, lots of photos, easy to understand. Chapters in this wonderful book are: Planet Earth - How the Earth was formed, Earth in Space, Earth's Magnetic field and more, Earth's Plates and Continents, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Rocks and Minerals, Mineral Resources, Mountains Valleys and Caves, Glaciation, there is too much in this little book to put it all down. It's is just chock full of facts and an excellent book for about aged 12 through adult. Sytematically organized for easy access to information and contains diagrams, charts, maps, glossary, and index. A super handy, compact book. 160 pages
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| Dictionary of Geological Terms, prepared by The American Gelogical Institute .. what a wonderful book this is. Accurate definitions and pronunciations and some origins of the vocabulary of earth science for the non-professional. Every rockhound, minerologist, gemologist, should have this in their reference library. 571 pages
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