DK - Eyewitness Explorer - Rock & Fossil Hunter
โ Scribed by DK
- Publisher
- DK Publishing
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 74
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
3 Contents
4 A world of rock
6 Rock types
8 Safety and equipment
10 Become a rock hound
12 Rock stars
14 Start a collection
16 Erupting volcano
18 On the lava trail
20 Colored crystals
22 Grow your own gems
24 Glittering geodes
26 How hard is it?
28 The streak test
30 Acid test
32 Make paint from minerals
34 Here, there, and everywhere
36 Rocks from space
38 Glow in the dark
40 Minerals from water
42 Stalactites on string
44 Changing landscape
46 Freeze and thaw
48 Ice Age spotter
50 Polished pebbles
52 Plant power
54 Sandstone sand castles
56 Fossil spotter
58 Hunt for fossils
60 Fake fossils
62 Make a fossil bone
64 Fake shelly limestone
66 Trapped in amber
68 Fossil mud pie
70 Glossary
72 Index
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