Description

The National Geographic Pocket Guide to Rocks and Minerals of North America offers a basic beginner's field guide to help you identify common rocks, minerals, gems, fossils and land formations.

Points clés

• Offers key facts about dozens of rocks and minerals, how to hunt and identify them and where and how to go looking
• Also pictures and explains fossils most likely to be found and the fundamental land and rock formations in the North American landscape
• Includes 160 entries with key identification points, photographs and illustrations