stones

Contains a collection of illustrated photographs depicting rocks and minerals in their natural state as well as in informative cross-section views.

Full-color photographs and simple text describe how minerals are formed, different kinds of rocks, and how they change.

Photographs and simple text introduce young readers to various types of rocks and how they are formed.

Presents an introduction to minerals, explaining what they are, examining the rock cycle, discussing types of minerals and their identification, looking at the uses of minerals, and including tips on rock collecting and finding minerals.

Includes information on collecting and identifying minerals, and sections on metallic, nonmetallic, gem and rock-forming minerals, and on igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.

Introduces a mineralogist, exploring how they study and identify minerals, and the tools that they use.

Stick and Stone are both lonely until Pinecone's teasing causes one to stick up for the other, and a solid friendship is formed.

This book is an illustrated guide to geological and geophysical aspects of rocks and minerals in our world.