Get the perfect guide to rocks and minerals of the Pacific Coast!
Keep this tabbed booklet close at hand on your next rock-hunting adventure. Based on Dan R. Lynch and Bob Lynch’s best-selling field guides and featuring 52 of the most common and desirable rocks and minerals along the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington, the booklet is organized by rocks/minerals and then by general appearance for quick and easy identification. Narrow your choices by appearance, and view photos of just a few specimens at a time. The easy-to-use format means you’ll quickly find what you need to know. Plus, the quick guide is much easier to use than laminated foldouts, and the tear-resistant pages help to make the book durable in the field.
Price: $9.95
Pages: 22
Publisher: Adventure Publications
Imprint: Adventure Publications
Series: Adventure Quick Guides
Publication Date:
17 April 2018
Trim Size: 7.50 X 4.38 in
ISBN: 9781591937753
Format: Spiral-Bound
BISACs:
NATURE / Rocks & Minerals, Rocks, minerals & fossils: general interest, TRAVEL / United States / West / Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA), REFERENCE / Handbooks & Manuals, NATURE / Regional, NATURE / Reference, Geology, geomorphology & the lithosphere
Dan R. Lynch has a degree in graphic design with emphasis on photography from the University of Minnesota Duluth. But before his love of art and writing came a passion for rocks and minerals, developed during his lifetime growing up in his parents’ rock shop in Two Harbors, Minnesota. Combining the two aspects of his life seemed a natural choice, and he enjoys researching, writing about, and taking photographs of rocks and minerals. Working with his father, Bob Lynch, a respected veteran of Lake Superior’s agate-collecting community, Dan spearheads their series of rock and mineral field guides—definitive guidebooks that help amateurs “decode” the complexities of geology and mineralogy. He also takes special care to ensure that his photographs complement the text and always represent each rock or mineral exactly as it appears in person. He currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with his wife, Julie, where he works as a writer and photographer.
Rocks & Minerals List
Actinolite-Tremolite
Agate
Amphibole group
Andesite
Apophyliite
Basalt
Beach Glass
Calcite
Celadonite
Chalcedony
Chert
Chlorite group
Clay
Concretions
Conglomerate/Breccia
Diabase/Gabbro
Diorite/Granodiorite
Epidote
Feldspar group
Fluorapatite
Fossils, animal
Garnet group
Gneiss
Goethite/limonite
Gold
Granite
Hematite
Ilmenite
Jade
Jasper
Limestone
Magnetite
Mica group
Mudstone/Siltstone
Obsidian
Olivine group
Petrified Wood
Porphyry
Pyrite
Pyroxene group
Quartz
Quartzite
Rhyolite
Sandstone
Schist
Serpentine
Serpentinite
Shale
Soapstone
Talc
Wacke
Zeolites
