Download or read book Rocks and Rock Minerals written by Richard V. Dietrich and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1979-07-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary successor to the Louis V. Pirsson and Adolph Knopf editions, providing a guide and reference that explains how rocks occur, their commercial usage, and how to identify them through macroscopic, handspecimen features. Gives complete coverage of rock-forming minerals, rocks and man-made, rock-like materials, as well as meteorites, impactites, grossans, and more. Tables are provided for identifications based on megascopic examinations and simple field tests that require no sophisticated laboratory equipment. Plus, numerous illustrations represent rocks and rock-forming minerals as they appear in nature.