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Amphibole Group Collector's Guide 135 Crystal Examples Shown w ID

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  • Type: Book
  • Type of Item: Book
  • Language: English
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Condition: New
  • Publication Year: 2015
  • Format: Paperback

    Description

    Collector Bookstore
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    Leavenworth, KS 66048
    Collector Bookstore is a leading specialty retailer of price guides and reference books to inform and educate collectors and professionals in the antiques and collectors markets. Our customers include individual collectors, dealers, appraisers, auctioneers & other industry professionals. You won't receive heavily thumbed shelf copies from us! We buy most titles directly from the publisher and individual authors. Authors are encouraged to submit their reference titles for our consideration.
    SO-SCH-2015-9780764348709-WH3
    Collector's Guide to the Amphibole Group by: Robert J. Lauf
    ISBN:
    9780764348709
    Book Title:
    Collector's Guide to the Amphibole Group
    Author:
    Robert J. Lauf
    Binding:
    Soft Cover
    Copyright:
    2015
    Pages:
    96
    Size:
    8.5 x 11 in.
    Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry.
    The amphibole group is extremely important, widespread, and beautiful, with a structure that can accommodate a bewildering variety of compositions and potentially hundreds of unique specimens. This timely volume will allow mineral collectors to understand how the amphiboles are organized and named, and to relate obsolete names to currently accepted ones. Over 140 full-color crystal images help the reader visualize the important structural features that define amphiboles and control their physical properties. This reference also provides information that collectors need to know to better understand the group and to learn what the specimens teach us about geological processes. Structural chemistry and taxonomy of the group is explored as well as formation and geochemistry, explaining the kinds of environments where amphiboles are formed. An entry for each mineral series provides locality information along with identification photos wherever possible, and examples that one might expect to find in the varied locales.
    144 color photos
    (SO Schiffer Categorical generated 2022-12-02)
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