Download or read book The Magic of Minerals written by Olaf Medenbach and published by Springer Verlag. This book was released on 1986 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mineralogy, as a branch of geoscience, has as its subject the composition of the solid crust of the earth. We recognize that our earth once circled the sun as a red-hot glowing sphere, many billions of years ago- a length of time virtually unimaginable to the human mind.