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Pyrite : a natural history of fool's gold / David Rickard.
LIBRA QE390.2.I76 R53 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rickard, David T. (David Terence), 1943- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pyrites.
- Pyrites--History.
- Mineralogy.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 297 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Foole's gold
- Pyrite and the origins of civilization
- What is pyrite?
- Crystals and atoms
- Hell and black smokers
- Microbes and minerals
- Acid earth
- Pyrite and the global environment
- Pyrite and the origins of life
- Full circle.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190203672
- 0190203676
- OCLC:
- 892794775
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