The Complete Illustrated Guide to Rocks of the World
by John Farndon
The Complete Illustrated Guide to Rocks of the World
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| UNDERSTANDING HOW ROCKS ARE MADE |
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| Inside the Earth |
10
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| Continents and Plates |
12
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| The Moving Earth |
14
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| Mountain Building |
16
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| Earthquakes and Faults |
18
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| Volcanoes |
20
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| Igneous Features |
22
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| The Rock Cycle |
24
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| How Igneous Rocks form |
26
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| How Sedimentary Rocks Form |
28
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| How Metamorphic Rocks Form |
30
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| Rock Landscapes |
32
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| The Ages of the Earth |
34
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| Rocks and Fossils |
36
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| How Minerals Form |
38
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| Geological Maps |
40
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| Reading the Landscape |
42
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| Mineral Ores |
44
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| Collecting Rocks and Minerals |
46
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| Classifying Rocks |
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| WORLD DIRECTORY OF ROCKS |
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| Identifying rocks |
52
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| Igneous Rocks |
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| Volcanic rocks: silica-rich rocks |
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| Andesites |
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| Trachytes and spillite |
58
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| Basalts |
60
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| Glassy rocks |
62
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| Volcanic froth and ash |
64
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| Volcanic debris |
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| Ultramafic rocks |
68
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| Olivine-rich rocks and carbonatite |
70
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| Syenites |
72
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| Plutonic rocks: granite |
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| Granitoids |
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| Gabbro and diorite |
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| Gabbroic rocks |
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| Dyke, sill and vein rocks |
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| Pegmatites |
84
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| Sedimentary Rocks |
86
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| Lutites |
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| More mudrocks |
88
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| Sandstones |
90
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| Arenites and wackes |
92
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| Rudites |
94
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| Biochemical rocks |
96
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| Limestones (carbonate rocks) |
98
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| Ooliths and dolostones |
100
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| Chemical rocks |
102
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| Organic rocks |
104
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| Metamorphic Rocks |
106
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| Metamorphic rocks: non-foliated |
106
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| Mafic metamorphic rocks |
108
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| Marble |
110
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| Foliated metamorphic rocks |
112
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| Slate |
114
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| Schists |
116
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| Gneiss and Granulite |
118
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| Rocks altered by fluids and other means |
120
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| Space rocks |
122
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| Glossary |
124
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| Index |
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