Download or read book A Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals written by Frederick H. Pough and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1996 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how to start and organize a rock collection; provides detailed descriptions of hundreds of minerals with information on geographic distribution, physical properties, chemical composition, and crystalline structures; and includes 385 color photographs.