Resources

Rock and Mineral Field Guides

Brown, V., D. Allan, & J. Stark, 1987, Rocks and Minerals of California, 3rd revised edition, Nautregraph Publishers, Happy Camp, CA, 200 pp.
Chesterman, C. W., 1979, National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals, Knopf, New York, 850 pp.
Dixon, D., & R. L. Bernor, 1992, The Practical Geologist: The Introductory Guide to the Basics of Geology and to Collecting and Identifying Rocks, Simon and Schuster, New York, 160 pp.
Johnsen, O., 2002, Minerals of the World, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 439 pp.
Mitchell, J., 2008, The Rockhound’s Handbook, revised edition, Gem Guides Book Company, Baldwin Park, CA, 299 pp.
Pellant, C., 2002, Rocks & Minerals, Dorling Kindersley (Smithsonian Handbooks), New York, 256 pp.
Prinz, M., G. Harlow, & J. Peters, eds., 1978, Simon & Schuster’s Guide to Rocks & Minerals, Simon and Schuster, New York, 607 pp.

Vernon, R. H., 2000, Beneath Our Feet: The Rocks of Planet Earth, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 216 pp.

Atlas of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks, Minerals and Textures, University of North Carolina Geology Department. (Older but still useful resource.)