Simon & Schuster's Guide to Fossils

by Paolo Arduini

Book Overview

A guide for both beginning and expert fossil enthusiasts, with information on classification, geographic distribution, age, and how evolution is traced using fossils. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671631322
• ISBN13: 9780671631321
• Release Date: February 1987
• Publisher: Fireside Books
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.7" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

On Your Bookshelf At home, In Your Pocket On The Field

Simon and Schuster's Guide to Fossils, is the best choice for field usage and as a good reference. In the book, you not only find the right definition and name for the fossil you have found, but also the specific facts about it. From classification to description, from description to stratigraphic position and geographical distribution... It also includes special notes about the specimens that you've collected, to make you completely understand the organisms... In short, this book is what you need on your bookshelf at home, and in your pocket on the field.