"Rock" in the New Year!

Interested in rocks, minerals, and gemstones? These books contain everything you need to know, as well as ideas for crafts, using rocks in gardens and landscaping, history, fossils, and more!

Updated November 24, 2025
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Encyclopedia of minerals
Roberts, Willard Lincoln.
Paper Book
The first edition (1974) was cited in Sheehy. An essential reference on every accepted mineral species, revised and updated to reflect new information in the science of mineralogy. This edition contains: some 3,200 alphabetical entries, 1,000 of which are entirely new; 338 photos, most in color,...

549 R544 1990

A dictionary of geology and earth sciences
Allaby, Michael
Ebook
This leading dictionary - now in its fourth edition - offers wide-ranging and authoritative coverage of the earth sciences and related topics in over 7,500 clear and accessible entries. Coverage includes geology, planetary science, oceanography, palaeontology, mineralogy, and volcanology, as well as...

550.3 AL51 2013

Evolution : what the fossils say and why it matters
Prothero, Donald R.
Paper Book
Over the past twenty years, paleontologists have made tremendous fossil discoveries, including fossils that mark the growth of whales, manatees, and seals from land mammals and the origins of elephants, horses, and rhinos. Today there exists an amazing diversity of fossil humans, suggesting we...

576.8 Prothero 2017

Blood diamonds tracing the deadly path of the world's most precious stones
Campbell, Greg.
Paper Book

966.404 C152


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