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Overview
Basic Rockhounding and Prospecting is aimed at anyone who is interested in learning the basics of collecting rocks and minerals. It’s the perfect companion title to the more advanced Modern Rockhounding and Prospecting Handbook. Readers will learn how to identify common rocks and minerals, and where to look for them. Using labs, procedures, pictorials, and discussions to help readers learn, this book will cover the basics of geology, describing the three main rock groups, with extensive pictures to show what to look for and how to figure out what is out there.
Look inside for:
·Geology basics
·Rules and regulations
·Polishing, preserving, crafting, and displaying your treasures
·Popular collectibles, including rocks, gems, fossils, meteorites, and gold
·Tools of the trade for every level of collector
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781493032815 |
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Publisher: | Falcon Guides |
Publication date: | 05/01/2019 |
Pages: | 232 |
Sales rank: | 1,074,973 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Introduction vii
Chapter 1 Getting Started 1
The Three Rock Types 1
The Earth and Its Core 3
Geologic Time 4
Geology Giant: James Button 5
Lab: Geologic Time 6
Geology Lab: Age of the Earth 6
Our Restless Earth 7
Lab: Plate Tectonics 8
Geology Lab: Cocoa Continents 8
Geology Giant: Alfred Wegener 9
Additional Reading: The Map That Changed the World 10
Chapter 2 All About Minerals 13
Our Chemical Building Blocks 13
Simple Crystals 17
Lab: Create A Crystal 19
Geology Lab: Create A Crystal 19
Lab: Crystal Clusters 21
Geology Lab: Crystal Clusters 22
Chapter 3 Learning About Rocks 26
Igneous Rocks Explained 28
Bucket List: Yosemite National Park 29
Famous Specimens: The Code of Hammurabi (Diorite) 30
Bucket List: Yellowstone 37
Hall of Fame: Florence Bascom 39
Understanding Volcanoes 40
Bucket List: Active Volcano 41
Geology Giant: Charles Lyell 43
Metamorphic Rocks Explained 45
Additional Reading: Barren Lands 47
Lab: Schist Happens 48
Geology Lab: Fun with Schists 49
Sedimentary Rocks Explained 50
Lab: Erosion 51
Geology Lab: Erosion 51
Lab: Salt Crystals 55
Geology Lab: Salt Crystals 55
Bucket List: Grand Canyon 56
Geology Giant: John Wesley Powell 57
Chapter 4 The Keys to Identification 62
Mineral Families 63
Mineral Properties 63
Lab: Hardness Test Kit 66
Geology Lab: Hardness Test Kit 67
Lab: Testing For Streak 69
Geology Lab: Testing for Streak 69
Lab: Measuring Density 75
Geology Lab: Measuring Density 76
Hall Of Fame: Madame Curie 80
Mineral Keys 82
Chapter 5 Finding Fossils 83
Bucket List: La Brea Tar Pits 85
Additional Reading: Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway 86
History of Paleontology 88
Additional Reading: The Seashell on the Mountaintop 89
Geology Giant: Georges Cuvier 90
Additional Reading: The Bonehunters' Revenge 91
Geology Giant: Mary Leakey 93
Bucket List: Green River Formation 94
How Geology Helps Fossil Hunters 95
Know Your Biology 95
Bucket List: Dinosaur National Monument 96
Extinction Theories 97
Hall of Fame: Walter Alvarez 98
Lab: Make A Mold 101
Geology Lab: Make A Mold 101
Bucket List: Dino Dig 107
Chapter 6 Prospecting for Gold 109
Hall Of Fame: Waldemar Lundgren 109
Where to Look for Panning Spots 110
Bucket List: Marshall Gold Discovery Site 110
The Science of Gold Panning 116
Making Concentrates 117
Choosing the Right Gold Pan 120
How to Use a Gold Pan 122
Lab: Practice Panning 126
Geology Lab: Practice Panning 126
About Those Black Sands 127
Hall of Fame: George Massie 131
Panning Machines 132
Bigger Gold Mining Equipment 135
Gold and Metal Detectors 140
Chapter 7 Hunting Meteorites 142
Impact Craters on Earth 144
Tektites 147
Meteorites in History 148
The Science of Meteorites 149
Lab: Space Dust 150
Geology Lab: Space Dust 150
Additional Reading: Meteorite Hunting: How to Find Treasure from Space 152
Regulations for Meteorite Collecting 152
How to Identify Meteorites 153
Bucket List: Willamette Meteorite 155
Where to Look for Meteorites 156
Bucket List: Meteor Crater 156
Hunting Meteorites by Sight 158
Hunting Meteorites by Magnet 158
Hunting Meteorites with Metal Detectors 159
Chapter 8 From Beginner to Collector 161
Legal Notices 161
Fee-Dig Opportunities 162
Bucket List: Sterling Hill Mining Museum 164
Ocean Beaches 164
Creek and River Walks 168
Desert Walks 171
Tailings 173
Bucket List: Tucson Show 175
Geology Giant: June Culp Zeitner 176
Veins, Vugs, and Outcrops 176
Bucket List: Colorado Gold Mine Tour 177
Geology Giant: Bob Jones 178
Display Your Finds 178
Records and Labels 178
Lab: Make A Label 184
Geology Lab: Make A Label 184
Appendix A Online Resources 185
Appendix B Clubs and Organizations 186
Appendix C Bibliography 187
Glossary 192
Index 210
About the Author 222