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Essays in geomorphology Edited by G. H. Dury, Heinemann 1966 Price 70/—


Book ID
102225780
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
183 KB
Volume
5
Category
Article
ISSN
0072-1050

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✦ Synopsis


This is an unusual mineralogy book and a good one. It is a hand book for mineral collectors working in Switzerland. Switzerland is famous for high quality mineral specimens. Most of these come from a suite of veins which are either open or filled with clay so that the minerals lining the cavities developed their own forms. The book starts with 12 pp. on general aspects of the Occurrences of the minerals. Following this are 40 pp. of notes on the minerals. No space is wasted on repeating descriptive details which can be found in any elementary text book on minerals. The notes all concern special features of the Swiss minerals and their occurrence and include information on size, morphology, inclusions, occurrence, colour and composition. This chapter contains 71 beautiful colour photographs of the minerals. These are the best and most consistently good series of mineral photographs I have seen. The third chapter contains 27 pp.


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