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With amazing photos and fascinating facts, this book is the perfect answer to all your questions about rocks and minerals.

A child rhapsodizes about rocks from big to small and precious to commonplace.

Detailed full-color spreads help beginning naturalists observe and understand over 150 types of rocks and minerals.

Text and over one thousand illustrations offer information on rocks and minerals, covering the Earth's crust, formation and transformation, classes, uses, and more. Includes glossary.

"Discusses the properties of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks and how they are formed, as well as how plates shift on the earth's surface to create mountains and volcanoes. Includes diagrams to present the many geologic cycles rocks go through"--Provided by publisher.