All Earth Science students need to understand the origins, environments, and basic processes that produce igneous and metamorphic rocks. This concise introductory ... very useful review of mineralogy.

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

The Atlas of Minerals and Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks in Thin-section ... Chapters highlight the distinctive characteristics used to identify different minerals. Building on this base, following ...