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Gems and Minerals: Earth Treasures from the Royal Ontario Museum
Kimberly Tait
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Description for Gems and Minerals: Earth Treasures from the Royal Ontario Museum
Hardback. A profusely illustrated and remarkably comprehensive guide to nature's most stunning jewels. Num Pages: 256 pages, Over 400 colour photos. BIC Classification: PNV; WNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 263 x 263 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1506.
Under the right conditions, over millions of years, geological activity can form extremely striking and amazing minerals. Once they have formed, these rare giants can be destroyed by the very forces that created them. Few survive, and even fewer are discovered and collected undamaged. This book is a comprehensive illustrated guide to 260 outstanding examples of gems and minerals from the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum. When Theophrastus described 16 minerals in his textbook De lapidibus, around 300 BCE, he laid the foundation for the science of mineralogy. Advances in the 20th century, particularly the use of X-ray ... Read more
Under the right conditions, over millions of years, geological activity can form extremely striking and amazing minerals. Once they have formed, these rare giants can be destroyed by the very forces that created them. Few survive, and even fewer are discovered and collected undamaged. This book is a comprehensive illustrated guide to 260 outstanding examples of gems and minerals from the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum. When Theophrastus described 16 minerals in his textbook De lapidibus, around 300 BCE, he laid the foundation for the science of mineralogy. Advances in the 20th century, particularly the use of X-ray ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Firefly Books Ltd Canada
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9781554078806
SKU
V9781554078806
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99-3
About Kimberly Tait
Dr. Kimberly Tait is the associate curator of mineralogy at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. She is also assistant professor of geology at the University of Toronto.
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