Rockhounding, Geology and Mining

Vendor: Gem Guides Book Company

Gem Trails Of Arizona
From azurite to wulfenite, Arizona is known the world over for its rich abundance of rocks and minerals. Now in its third edition, this best-selling guide covers well-known sites, and uncovers many lesser-known areas as well. Situated in landscapes as diverse as the minerals...

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Vendor: Utah Geological Survey

Late Mississippian (Arnsbergian Stage E2 Chronozone) ammonoid paleontology and biostratigraphy of the Antler foreland basin, California, Nevada, and Utah (B-131)
By: A. L. Titus One of the most important functions of paleontology in the earth sciences is time correlation of rock strata using taxonomic analysis of fossils in different regions. Comparisons of certain speciesâ€™ similarities between regions frequently allows for precise age dating and...

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Vendor: Gem Guides Book Company

DK Smithsonian Handbooks: Fossils
This comprehensive pocket guide is the perfect introduction to finding, identifying, and collecting fossils. It features more than 500 species of plant and animal fossils, from trilobites and megafauna to dinosaurs and ancient trees. This handbook cuts through the complicated identification process with expertly...

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Vendor: Gem Guides Book Company

Geodes: Nature's Treasures
Explore the Mysterious World of Geodes! Take a crack at geode science! Learn from two world renowned gemologists as they share their lifelong passion and knowledge of everything geodes, from their formation and occurrence to the amazing variety and beauty of these popular, world-class...

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Vendor: Indiana University Press

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
By Riley Black Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. It's a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek of ancient Montana 66 million years ago. A Triceratops horridus ambles along the edge of the forest. In a matter of hours, everything here will be wiped...

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Vendor: Gem Guides Book Company

Where to Find Gold in the Desert
By: James Klein Want to know where you have the best chance to find gold today? In fact, the deserts of America's Southwest are filled with gold...some of it occurring naturally and some of it hidden as part of treasure troves dating back to...

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Vendor: Ken Sanders

Treasure Mtn Home: Park City Revisited
Illustrated with black & white photographs. This entertaining volume tells the history of Park City, Utah from its first days as a frontier mining camp to its present status as one of America's premier winter-sports havens. Between these two incarnations the famed "treasure chest...

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Vendor: Gem Guides Book Company

Modern Prospecting: How to Find, Claim, and Sell Mineral Deposits
By: Roger McPherson A gold pan, a couple of screens, a small shovel, rock hammer, hand lens, and sample bags are the essential tools for prospecting. However, to have a better chance of discovering a deposit, a prospector must also recognize the signposts of...

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Vendor: Mountain Press

Glacial Lake Missoula and its Humongous Floods
By: David Alt As geologist J. Harlen Bretz walked the dry scabland channels of eastern Washington in the 1920s, in dawned on him that he was viewing a landscape sculpted by water. Lots of water. A flood of catastrophic proportions. Glacial Lake Missoula and...

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Vendor: Grand Canyon Conservancy

Carving Grand Canyon: Evidence, Theories, and Mystery
Dive deep into the geological enigma that is the Grand Canyon with the second edition of "Carving Grand Canyon: Evidence, Theories, and Mystery," published by the Grand Canyon Conservancy in 2012. This comprehensive book explores the myriad theories surrounding the canyon's formation, from the...

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Vendor: Utah Geological Survey

Utah Mineral Occurrence System (UMOS) Database (OFR-757)
By: Diane Menuz and Rebekah Downard The Utah Mineral Occurrence System (UMOS) is a database that includes known mineral mines, quarries, prospects, and deposits in Utah. The database focuses on metallic and industrial minerals, but also includes information on energy minerals (particularly uranium). The...

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Vendor: Gem Guides Book Company

DK Eyewitness: Fossil
A visual and informative guide to fossils, now revised and updated in the relaunched DK Eyewitness Books format. Get up close and personal and be an eyewitness to our prehistoric world through fossilized shells, skulls, teeth, plants, and, of course, skeletons with DK Eyewitness Books:...

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Vendor: Indiana University Press

Cambrian Ocean World: Ancient Sea Life of North America
This volume, aimed at the general reader, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history. During this immense span of time nearly every modern group...

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Vendor: National Book

Rockhounding Montana: A Guide to 100 of Montana's Best Rockhounding Sites
By: Montana Hodges & Robert Feldman Search for stunning Montana agate along the Yellowstone River. Hunt for sapphires at the Spokane Bar Sapphire Mine. Help paleontologists excavate dinosaurs in Malta. Rockhounding Montana points the way to the best rockhounding in the state, including popular...

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Vendor: National Book

Dinosaurs: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species
By: James Kavanagh & Raymond Leung "Dinosaurs: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species" offers a concise and accessible overview of well-known dinosaur species. This handy guide features detailed illustrations and essential information about each species' habits and habitats. It also provides insights into...

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Vendor: Mountain Press

Landforms of Southern Utah: A Photographic Exploration
By: Richard L. Orndorff and David G. Futey Every landform has a distinct geologic history. A cliff marks the line of a fault, a moraine delineates the edge of a former glacier, and a fin parallels a set of fractures. In Landforms of Southern...

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Vendor: Chicago Distribution

A Hole in the Ground with a Liar at the Top: Fraud and Deceit in the Golden Age of American Mining
By: Dan Plazak Coal, silver, gold...there is something about the allure of finding hidden treasure that puts a glint in people's eyes - a glint that is sometimes blinding. An American saying, often attributed to Mark Twain, defines a mine as a hole in...

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Vendor: Longleaf Services

The Colorado Plateau: A Geologic History
This new edition of Donald L. Baars's classic The Colorado Plateau incorporates new text, maps, photographs, figures, tables, and bibliography to provide the most up-to-date geology of the red rock and canyon country of the Four Corners of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. Baars's comprehensive...

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Vendor: Glen Canyon Conservancy

At the Top of the Grandstaircase: the Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah
The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah is the location of one of the best-known terrestrial records for the late Cretaceous. A major effort in the new century has documented over 2,000 new vertebrate fossil sites, provided new radiometric dates, and identified five new...

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Vendor: Gem Guides Book Company

The Rock and Gem Book
By: Dan Green What is the difference between a rock and a gem? What makes the Hope Diamond so special? Why are some minerals fluorescent? Dig deep to find the answers in The Rock and Gem Book. Filled with over 1,200 stunning full-color photographs,...

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