Excerpt from Economic Mineralogy: A Practical Guide to the Study of Useful Minerals Rocks may be defined as those materials which, in the form of beds and other masses, build up the crust of the earth. Usually they are complex or heterogeneous, and can be resolved into two or more minerals, as in granites, gabbros, mica-schists, and many other rocks but this is not invariably the case, and a rock may consist entirely or almost entirely of one mineral, as is the case with rock masses of dunite (olivine rock), serpentine, ...
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Excerpt from Economic Mineralogy: A Practical Guide to the Study of Useful Minerals Rocks may be defined as those materials which, in the form of beds and other masses, build up the crust of the earth. Usually they are complex or heterogeneous, and can be resolved into two or more minerals, as in granites, gabbros, mica-schists, and many other rocks but this is not invariably the case, and a rock may consist entirely or almost entirely of one mineral, as is the case with rock masses of dunite (olivine rock), serpentine, gypsum, rock-salt, crystalline limestone, magnesite, dolomite, quartzites, and some other rocks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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