Illustrated with colour photographs, this guide covers the classifications of fossils, with over 190 fossils featured. It gives information for each fossil including its genus name, the identifying characteristics of the genus, and its maximum or average size. It is useful for those interested in uncovering the mysteries of the Earth's fossils.

A guide to more than six hundred specimens includes detailed descriptions and illustrations.

Provides photographs of more than 220 varieties of minerals, rocks, and fossils.

Product Description: Pages of full-color photos identify mineral formations as common as iron and sulfur and as precious as diamonds and rubies. Minerals are shown as they occur both in natural deposits and in their cut-and-polished states. Readers get an overview of mineral sources, gem cutting, imitation gems, metals and metal working, and much more...read more

Foster, Giraud, Barker, Norman

An authoritative and practical identification guide to minerals, rocks and fossils of the world. This new edition of a classic reference work has been completely revised, updated and redesigned, with new extended introductory sections and appendices. An invaluable handbook for amateur collectors and specialists alike, this book is small and compact enough to carry in the pocket or backpack. • Over 600 specimens in full colour • Every specimen described and illustrated on the same double-page spread • Over 300 line drawings identifying structures and features (view table of contents)

The encyclopaedia contains more than 13,000 A-Z entries, colour illustrations, 150 special box features and 200 individual country features.

Shows fossils, skeletons, and reconstructions of various species of extinct or surviving animals

Line drawings and color photographs enhance a field guide that describes the appearance, formation, and structure of hundreds of specimens