Oddities of the Mineral World

Oddities of the Mineral World is a fascinating, informative book specifically designed to acquaint both beginning and advanced collectors, mineralogists, speleologists, paleontologists, and lapidaries with the amazing and varied world of the unusual, a world that truly encompasses all of the earth sciences. This book is illustrated throughout with unstaged, straightforward photographs, in color and black and white, of representative specimens, There is a selected bibliography of both books and periodicals and a complete index. Included in this book are intriguing chapters such as: natural crystals and other materials, inclusions, agate nodules, thundereggs, and geodes, pseudomorphs, and much more. A great rock and mineral book, for all ages.