This title explores how mountains have risen only to dwindle to dust. Readers discover how igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks live, die and are reborn as part of the never-ending rock cycle.

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This A-Z guide to precious and semi-precious stones includes historical and cultural information, names and meanings, birthstones, historical and contemporary traditions, folklore, purported healing and mind-enhancing powers, and bibliography.

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

A. C. Hamlin's two classic books (collected together in one volume) on the famous tourmalines of Mount Mica, Maine, discuss the history and illustrate the beauty of these gemstones. A wonderful addition to any rockhound or mineral collector's bookshelf.

In Prospecting For Lode Gold, Gregory Stone presents the background in geology and mineralogy which will enable the reader to search out the likely areas for finding lode gold deposits and how to recognize the clues to their exact locations. He advises on the most useful tools for prospecting, how to judge the value of the ore discovered, and, if gold is found, how to proceed with the claim and protect it. Detailed illustrations and pictures combine with the text to give a practical and worthwhile background to all those who find pleasure and, hopefully, profit in searching for gold.

Plant fossils have helped scientists reconstruct the natural surroundings that supported the growth and evolution of dinosaurs - their food sources and habitat. While there are many scientific and general books on the dinosaurs and dinosaur fossils of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, this is the first general publication on fossil plants within the province of Alberta since 1949. The information in this guide is based on Kevin Aulenback's years of experience and discovery with hands-on investigation of fossil plants in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation and other areas, and it is supported with the most up-to-date scientific discussion on paleobotany (the study of ancient plants) and palynology (the study of spores and pollen).Identification Guide to the Fossil Plants of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Drumheller, Alberta is an easy-to-use guide for the amateur and professional alike to identifying Cretaceous fossil plant finds. Illustrated with over 800 drawings and photographs, the guide gives the reader/collector enough information on their finds, as well as on still-living comparatives, to accurately identify fossils within the field or lab. The guide contains many unpublished fossil finds noted by the author over sixteen years of research, discovery, and observation in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation.

The locating of a placer gold pay streak is not an easy task, but in Placer Gold: Where To Find It Gregory V. Stone imparts to the layman ten years of study and prospecting expertise to make finding a placer gold pay streak a fine possibility for the reader who heeds his advise and exerts sincere effort. Written with cookbook clarity, this guidebook is chock full of detailed illustrations and geological placer gold clues to enable the reader to search out likely areas for placer gold deposits.

According to the idea of intelligent design, nature's complexity is the result of deliberate planning by a supernatural creative force. To date, most scientific arguments against this form of creationism have been made by evolutionary biologists. In this volume, a team of earth scientists reveals that the flaws of intelligent design are not limited to the biological sciences. Indeed, the geological sciences offer some of the best refutations of intelligent design arguements. "For the Rock Record "is dedicated to the proposition that the idea of intelligent design should be of serious concern to everyone. Editors Jill S. Schneiderman and Warren D. Allmon have gathered leading figures from the geological community with a wide range of viewpoints that go to the heart of the debate over what is and is not science. The purveyors of intelligent design theories and its kindred philosophies threaten the scientific literacy that our society needs by confusing faith and the practice of science. This collection offers a much-needed response.

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