Gems and Minerals: Earth Treasures from the Royal Ontario Museum
Earth Treasures from the Royal Ontario Museum
$72.09
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2012
Summary
A profusely illustrated and remarkably comprehensive guide to nature’s most stunning jewels. Under the right conditions, over millions of years, geological activity can form extremely striking and amazing minerals. Once they have formed, these rare giants can be destroyed by the very forces that created them. Few survive, and even fewer are discovered and collected undamaged. This book is a comprehensive illustrated guide to 260 outstanding examples of gems and minerals from the collection o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781554078806 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1554078806 |
| Author: | Kimberly Tait |
| Publisher: | Firefly Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Firefly Books Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2012 |
| Weight: | 1.51kg |
| Dimensions: | 255mm x 255mm |
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Critics Review
A very handsome and colorful quick reference on many of the minerals and gems of the world…. With superb photographs and excellent mineral references, this text joins a host of other books on gems and minerals and is a fine addition to anyone’s reference shelf or coffee table.–Bob Jones “Rock and Gem” (4/1/2012 12:00:00 AM)
About The Author
Kimberly Tait
Dr. Kimberly Tait is the associate curator of mineralogy at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. She is also assistant professor of geology at the University of Toronto.
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