Texas Rocks and Minerals: An Amateur's Guide
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Bureau of Economic Geology- Guidebook six
Chapters (81)
- TEXAS ROCKS AND MINERALS An Amateur’s Guide
- Illustrations
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- Earth’s Outer Crust
- Geologists
- Time and Rock Units
- Geologic Map
- 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
- COLLECTING ROCKS AND MINERALS
- 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
- 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)
- COMPOSITION, HARDNESS, AND SPECIFIC GRAVITY OF SOME TEXAS MINERALS
- BOOKS ABOUT ROCKS AND MINERALS
- Nontechnical Books for Beginners
- Textbooks and Other Reference Books
- Selected References on Texas Rocks and Minerals
- GLOSSARY
- Index
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