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Examines the nature, formation, and different kinds of rocks and minerals and explains how to collect them.

Presents color-illustrated, step-by-step instructions for eight projects that teach about rocks, minerals, and fossils, including making "igneous rock" candy, starting a batch of coal, and going on a fossil hunt.

First-person riddles present information about various rocks and minerals, including sandstone, chalk, slate, and petrified wood.

Discusses features of rock including how it is manufactured and made into useful products we use everyday.

Illustrations and simple text describe the three types of rocks including igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks and how these and various minerals are formed.

Photographs, diagrams, and simple text identify and explain key science principles and concepts about rocks, gems, minerals, and soil including erosion, fuels, and fossils.

"This book utilizes real-size photographs to teach young learners about different types of rocks and soil.

Teaches children about rocks and soil and provides step-by-step instructions for craft projects.

A field guide with over 1,000 illustrations, descriptions, and practical information.

Discusses the formation and mining of different kinds of rocks and the many minerals found within.

Describes the formation and uses of the world's leading minerals.

Twenty fun and simple experiments, using inexpensive household materials, that reveal the properties of rocks and minerals, with suggestions for developing science fair projects.

Examines the geology of the Earth and explains how the history of life on Earth is recorded in the rocks.

Describes in simple language the composition, formation, and structure of different types of rocks and minerals.