The Fabulous Keokuk Geodes, Volume I: Their Origin, Formation and Development in the Mississippian Lower Warsaw Beds of Southeast Iowa and Adjacent States
by Sinotte, Stephen R
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Des Moines, Iowa: Wallace-Homestead Co, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 292pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth over boards. Light wear to the extremities. With the folding map at the rear. In the dust jacket with rubbing, and light chipping to the edges. A concise nontechnical discussion of the origin, formation and development of Keokuk geodes, and the crystallography and paragenesis of their mineral inclusions that will be readily comprehensible to both the intelligent layman and the geologist.
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- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 65658
- Title
- The Fabulous Keokuk Geodes, Volume I: Their Origin, Formation and Development in the Mississippian Lower Warsaw Beds of Southeast Iowa and Adjacent States
- Author
- Sinotte, Stephen R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Wallace-Homestead Co
- Place of Publication
- Des Moines, Iowa
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- Iowa; Keokuk; Geodes; geology
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Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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