Texas Rocks and Minerals, An Amateur’s Guide
by Roselle M. Girard
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About this eBook
- Author
- Girard, Roselle M., 1918-
- Title
- Texas Rocks and Minerals: An Amateur's Guide
- Credits
- Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QE: Science: Geology
- Subject
- Mineralogy -- Texas
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 52839
- Release Date
- August 18, 2016
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.TEXAS ROCKS AND MINERALS An Amateur’s Guide
- 2.Contents
- 3.Illustrations
- 4.PREFACE — Texas Rocks and Minerals An Amateur’s Guide
- 5.INTRODUCTION — Earth’s Outer Crust — Geologists — Time and Rock Units — Geologic Map
- 6.WHAT ARE ROCKS AND MINERALS? — Chemical Elements — Minerals — Rocks — IGNEOUS ROCKS — SEDIMENTARY ROCKS — METAMORPHIC ROCKS — Occurrence and Properties of Minerals — HOW MINERALS OCCUR — SOME DISTINGUISHING PROPERTIES OF MINERALS — SOME SPECIAL OCCURRENCES OF MINERALS
- 7.COLLECTING ROCKS AND MINERALS
- 8.ROCK AND MINERAL IDENTIFICATION CHARTS — How To Use the Mineral Identification Charts — Key to Mineral Identification Charts — Mineral Identification Charts — How To Use the Rock Identification Charts — Rock Identification Charts
- 9.DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME TEXAS ROCKS AND MINERALS — Anhydrite — Asbestos — Barite — Basalt — Calcite — Cassiterite — Celestite — Cinnabar — Clay — Copper Minerals ( Chalcocite , Chalcopyrite , Malachite , Azurite ) — Dolomite — Feldspar — Fluorite — Galena — Garnet — Gneiss — Gold — Granite — Graphite — Gypsum — Halite — Hematite — Limestone — Limonite — Llanite — Magnetite — Manganese Minerals ( Braunite , Hollandite , Pyrolusite ) — Marble — Mica — Obsidian and Vitrophyre — Opal — Pegmatite — Pyrite — Quartz — Quartzite — Rhyolite — Sand and Sandstone — Schist — Serpentine — Shale — Silver Minerals ( Argentite , Cerargyrite , Native Silver ) — Sulfur — Talc and Soapstone — Topaz — Tourmaline — Uranium Minerals ( Carnotite , Uranophane , Pitchblende ) — Volcanic Ash ( Pumicite )
- 10.COMPOSITION, HARDNESS, AND SPECIFIC GRAVITY OF SOME TEXAS MINERALS
- 11.BOOKS ABOUT ROCKS AND MINERALS — Nontechnical Books for Beginners — Textbooks and Other Reference Books — Selected References on Texas Rocks and Minerals
- 12.GLOSSARY
- 13.Index
- 14.Transcriber’s Notes
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