Frederic Brewster Loomis

PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF PLATES (AT END OF BOOK)

CHAPTER I AN INTRODUCTION Why

CHAPTER II ON THE FORMS AND PROPERTIES OF MINERALS Rocks

CHAPTER III THE MINERALS KEY TO THE MINERALS, BASED ON

CHAPTER IV THE ROCKS

CHAPTER V MISCELLANEOUS ROCKS

BIBLIOGRAPHY MINERALOGY

INDEX

Transcriber's Notes

For identifying the Rocks and Minerals of the United States and interpreting their Origins and Meanings

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By
Frederic Brewster Loomis
Late Professor of Mineralogy and Geology
in Amherst College

With 47 Colored Specimens and over 100 other Illustrations from Photographs by W. E. Corbin and drawings by the Author

G. P. Putnam’s Sons
New York and London

FIELD BOOK
OF
COMMON ROCKS AND MINERALS

Copyright, 1923, 1948
by
Frederick Brewster Loomis

Twenty-sixth Impression
Revised 1948

All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission.

Made in the United States of America

Dedicated
TO
MY MOTHER
WHO ENCOURAGED ME WHILE A BOY TO GATHER MINERALS, ROCKS AND FOSSILS.