Topics

Introduction

Classification

Fairly Simple Mineral Identification

Fairly Simple Rock Identification

Easy (and Cheap) Crystal Growing

Look at What Nature has Done

The Trickle Down Effect

Earthquake!

Locate-a-Quake

Terra Mobilis

Maps and Topography

Rock Crystallization

Oil Exploration

Cookie Mining

Porosity and Permeability

Groundwater Pollution Site Assessment

Bowen's Reaction Series

Gum Drop Crystal Models

Search-a-Word and Word Puzzles

MINERAL SEARCH

Barbara R. Thomas

Seven Minerals: Gypsum
                         Talc
                         Calcite
                         Feldspar
                         Quartz
                         Galena
                         Halite

Two things for testing hardness: Glass
                                                 Fingernail

Two kinds of luster: Earthy
                               Metallic

One thing useful to test for Calcite: Acid

One thing useful for testing for Magnetite: Magnet

Two other properties of minerals that are useful for identification: Cleavage
                                                                                                  Color

The words may be forward, backward, up, down, or diagonal.

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