This field guide is divided into three sections, namely minerals, rocks (including meteorites and tektites) and fossils. Each section comprises an introductory part, which is illustrated by line drawings, and a descriptive part, which is illustrated by line drawings and colour photographs. The introductory sections include the minimum basic information required to follow the descriptive sections adequately, while the descriptive sections, for ease of reference, are always arranged so that photographs and accompanying text are opposite one another.

Zoned Olivines of Bronze Age Metallurgical Slags of Southern Urals According to LA-ICP-MS Mapping Maxim N. Ankushev, Dmitry A. Artemyev and Ivan A. Blinov

Modern Urban Sediments: Identification of the Cosmic Spherules Irina A. Danilenko, Elena M. Baglaeva, Evgeniya V. Petrova, Andrian A. Seleznev and Grigoriy A. Yakovlev

Zircon Thermometry of the Yarot Granite Massif (The Subpolar Urals) Yulia V. Denisova and Anna N. Vikhot
New Carbonaceous Chondrite from Northwest Africa Kseniya A. Dugushkina and Stepan V. Berzin Scanning Electron Microscopy of Pyrite from Brown Coal (Mugun Coal Deposit, Irkutsk Basin)
Narine R. Dzhumayan and Aleksey V. Nastavkin Dimensions of Atoms in a Crystal: Delusions Versus Reality Nikolai N. Eremin

Georg Petersen’s Minería y Metalurgia en el Antiguo Perú was originally published in Spanish in 1970 through the Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, in Lima, Perú. Colleague, editor, and friend, Professor Duccio Bonavia, an archaeologist at the Academia Peruana de la Historia in Lima, recognized and was intrigued with Petersen’s broad interests and knowledge of geology and the use of mineral resources by ancient Peruvians, and he encouraged Petersen to publish his research. Petersen’s book is broadly appealing and useful to the specialist and non-specialist because it blends the archaeology, art history, biology, Colonial exploration, ethnohistory, geochemistry, geology, metallurgy, and the mining technology of ancient Perú. <...>

RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE (RFF) is an independent nonprofit organization engaged in research and public education on natural resource and environmental issues. Its mission is to create and disseminate knowledge that helps people make better decisions about the conservation and use of their natural resources and the environment. RFF neither lobbies nor takes positions on current policy issues. Because the work of RFF focuses on how people make use of scarce resources, its primary research discipline is economics. However, its staff also includes social scientists from other fields, ecologists, environmental health scientists, meteorologists, and engineers. Staff members pursue a wide variety of interests, including forest economics, recycling, multiple use of public lands, the costs and benefits of pollution control, endangered species, energy and national security, hazardous waste policy, climate resources, and quantitative risk assessment. <...>