This review summarizes the book "Rocks and Minerals – A Photographic Field Guide" by Chris and Helen Pallant. The guide contains information on three main rock types - igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks - though they are not classified uniformly. Each rock type includes color images but some images are not clearly linked to the corresponding text. The second half of the guide covers minerals and classifies them by their main chemical composition along with color plates and descriptions. While titled a field guide, most of the content reads like a reference textbook and the examples cover minerals from around the world, limiting its usefulness for investigating minerals in any one country. However, it serves as a useful field guide for identifying rocks
This review summarizes the book "Rocks and Minerals – A Photographic Field Guide" by Chris and Helen Pallant. The guide contains information on three main rock types - igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks - though they are not classified uniformly. Each rock type includes color images but some images are not clearly linked to the corresponding text. The second half of the guide covers minerals and classifies them by their main chemical composition along with color plates and descriptions. While titled a field guide, most of the content reads like a reference textbook and the examples cover minerals from around the world, limiting its usefulness for investigating minerals in any one country. However, it serves as a useful field guide for identifying rocks
This review summarizes the book "Rocks and Minerals – A Photographic Field Guide" by Chris and Helen Pallant. The guide contains information on three main rock types - igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks - though they are not classified uniformly. Each rock type includes color images but some images are not clearly linked to the corresponding text. The second half of the guide covers minerals and classifies them by their main chemical composition along with color plates and descriptions. While titled a field guide, most of the content reads like a reference textbook and the examples cover minerals from around the world, limiting its usefulness for investigating minerals in any one country. However, it serves as a useful field guide for identifying rocks
Title: Rocks and Minerals A Photographic Field Guide
Authors: Chris and Helen Pallant Publishers: Bloomsbury Year of publication: 2014 ISBN: 978-1-4729-0993-0 Price: 12.99 Number of pages: 192 Review: The authors have produced a compact text of a size and weight that fits easily into a pocket. After an introduction the three rock types are described although they do not have a set of common criteria due to the complexities of formation. For example, igneous rocks are partly classified (and identified), through the characteristics of their grain size, texture and, composition. Metamorphic rocks on the other hand are identified according to three groups that reflect how they were formed whilst sedimentary rocks are the easiest to identify as a type because of their classic stratified appearance. Each rock type has colour images however, these are not linked to specific text. For example on page 36, five images seem to have been placed randomly and without a clear link to the written information. The minerals section follows that of the rocks with an introduction outlining their nature including the crystalline characteristic of many and, a list of identification criteria with explanations. From page 76 up to the glossary and index, minerals are described according to their main chemical composition (e.g. emerald within the silicates), together with a colour plate and descriptive table and, common uses. To say this is a field guide belies the fact that the majority of the contents read more like a reference textbook. Additionally, the examples for minerals are drawn from across the globe and so the field as such would need to be extensive! In other words, it would not be that useful when investigating the minerals of any one country yet it is a useful field guide to rocks, particularly those of the UK with the information being transferable to other countries. Reviewer Name: Pat Sang CBiol., MSB
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