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Fossils

Fossils

By DK

Paperback / softback | ISBN 9780241471432

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An extensive guide to over 500 fossils, with a detailed entry on each specimen featuring vivid photography and precise text

The clearest and sharpest recognition guide to over 500 invertebrate, vertebrate, and plant fossils from around the world.

This comprehensive pocket guide is the perfect introduction to finding, identifying, and collecting fossils. It features more than 500 species of plant and animal fossils, from trilobites and megafauna to dinosaurs and ancient trees. This handbook cuts through the complicated identification process with expertly written and thoroughly vetted text that features precise description, enabling you to recognize a species instantly. Over 1,000 photographs, with illuminating annotations, help you to pick out a fossil's chief characteristics and distinguishing features, while a colour illustration shows the fossil as a living plant or animal.

The detailed introduction explains what a fossil is and how they are classified. Start building your own collection with advice on where to look for fossils, what tools and safety equipment are needed for collecting, and how best to organize a fossil collection. To help you in the initial stages of identification, this book provides a visual identification key that makes it easy to recognize a fossil and place it in its correct group. Finally, a concise glossary gives instant understanding of technical and scientific terms.

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BOOK DETAILS

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9780241471432
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Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Number of pages: 320
Width (mm): 151
Height (mm): 215
Depth (mm): 28

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