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Smithsonian Handbooks: Rocks & Minerals

The Smithsonian Handbook of Rocks and Minerals combines 600 vivid full--color photos with descriptions of more than 500 specimens. In addition, each mineral entry features an illustration showing the crystal system to which the mineral belongs.

Smithsonian Handbooks: Rocks & Minerals (Smithsonian Handbooks)

101 American Geo-Sites You've Gotta See

Rocks racing across a lakebed in Death Valley. Perfectly preserved 36-million-year-old tsetse flies in Colorado. Dinosaur trackways cemented into ancient floodplains in Connecticut. A gaping rift in the Idaho desert. What do these enigmatic geologic phenomena have in common? Besides initiating a profusion of head-scratching over the years, these sites of geologic wonder appear side by side, for the first time, in a single publication.

Fossils (True Books: Earth Science (Paperback))

In the 4.6 billion years since Earth was formed, many plant and animal species have come and gone. Fossils are one of the most important tools we have for learning about long-extinct wildlife. Readers will discover how fossils are formed, how paleontologists search for them, and what kinds of information they can provide.