GemRocks: Frames version

<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=navy style='tab-interval:.5in' alink="#FF0000" Font Face=Arial> <div class=Section1> <h1 align=center style='text-align:center'>GEMROCKS: <span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style"'>Ornamental & Curio Stones</span></h1> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><b>Compiled by R. V. Dietrich, </b><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Professor Emeritus</span></i></b> </p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Illustrations by Jeffrey Scovil, Dick Dietrich and others</span></b></p> <div align=center> <table border=1 cellpadding=0 width="60%" style='width:60.0%;mso-cellspacing: 1.5pt;border:outset 1.5pt;mso-padding-alt:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'> <tr> <td width="100%" style='width:100.0%;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Goudy Old Style"'>This compilation is dedicated to the memory of </span></b> <br> <b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style"'>ADOLPH KNOPF (1882-1966),</span></b> <br> <b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style"'>who instilled in me an insatiable curiosity about rocks.</span></b> </p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><img width=32 height=26 id="_x0000_i1025" src=email.gif alt="Comments or additions are welcome."><b>Comments or additions are welcome.<br> <a href="mailto:dietr1rv@mail.cmich.edu">R. V. Dietrich</a> © 2003</b><o:p></o:p></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'>| <a href="concretions\index.htm">Carbonate Concretions Bibliography</a> | <a href="mimetoliths\">Mimetoliths 12/02</a> | <a href="stones\index.htm">Stones: Addenda 11/02</a> |<br> | <a href="http://www.gia.edu/education/library.cfm">GIA Library</a> |</p> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="70%" noshade color="#aca899" align=center> </div> <h3 align=center style='text-align:center'><a name=toc></a><span style='font-family:Arial'>TABLE of CONTENTS</span> <o:p></o:p></h3> <div align=center> <table border=1 cellpadding=0 width="80%" style='width:80.0%;mso-cellspacing: 1.5pt;mso-padding-alt:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt' height=640> <tr style='height:15.75pt'> <td width="50%" valign=top style='width:50.0%;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt; height:15.75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><a href="gemrx.htm#preface">Preface</a> <br> <a href="gemrx.htm#intro">Introduction</a></span></p> </td> <td width="50%" valign=top style='width:50.0%;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt; height:15.75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><a href="gemrxIndex.htm">Index</a> </span></p> </td> <td width="50%" style='width:50.0%;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt; height:15.75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&q=cyrillic+font" target="_blank">Cyrillic font sources</a></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='height:452.25pt'> <td width="50%" valign=top style='width:50.0%;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt; height:452.25pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><a href="agate.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Agate</span></a> <br> <a href="alabaster.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Alabaster</span></a><br> <a href="amber.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Amber</span></a> <br> <a href="amphibole.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Amphibole-rich rocks</span></a><br> <a href="anhydrite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Anhydrite</span></a> <br> <a href="anorthosite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Anorthosite</span></a> <br> <a href="argillite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Argillite</span></a><br> <a href="azurite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Azurite</span></a> </p> <p><a href="basalt.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Basalt</span></a> <br> <a href="breccia.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Breccia</span></a> </p> <p><a href="chalcedony.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Chalcedony</span></a> <br> <a href="charoite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Charoite</span></a> <br> <a href="chert.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Chert</span></a> <br> <a href="chickenblood.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Chicken-blood stone</span></a><br> <a href="chlorastrolite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Chlorastrolite</span></a> <br> <a href="chrysocolla.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>"Chrysocolla"</span></a> <br> <a href="coal.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Coal</span></a> <br> <a href="conglomerate.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Conglomerate</span></a> </p> <p><a href="datolite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Datolite</span></a> <br> <a href="marble.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Dolostone</span></a></p> <p><a href="fluorite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Fluorite</span></a> <br> <a href="fossiliferous.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Fossiliferous rock</span></a> </p> <p><a href="gneiss.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Gneiss</span></a> <br> <a href="goodletite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Goodletite</span></a> <br> <a href="granite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>"Granite"</span></a> <br> <a href="graphic.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Graphic granite</span></a> </p> <p><span style='font-family:Arial'><a href="hawkseye.htm">Hawk's-eye</a><br> <a href="hematite.htm">Hematite</a></span></p> </td> <td width="50%" valign=top style='width:50.0%;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt; height:452.25pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><a href="vesuvianite.htm">Idocrase</a></span></p> <p><a href="jade.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>The Jades</span></a> <br> <span style='font-family:Arial'>    <a href="jadeite.htm">Jadeite</a></span> <br> <span style='font-family:Arial'>    <a href="nephrite.htm">Nephrite</a></span> <br> <a href="jasper.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Jasper</span></a> <br> <a href="jet.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Jet</span></a> </p> <p><a href="lapis.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Lapis lazuli</span></a> <br> <a href="larvikite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Larvikite</span></a> <br> <a href="leopardite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Leopardite</span></a> <br> <a href="leopardrx.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Leopard rock</span></a> <br> <a href="marble.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Limestone</span></a></p> <p><a href="malachite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Malachite</span></a> <br> <a href="marble.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Marble</span></a><br> <a href="meerschaum.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Meerschaum</span></a> <br> <a href="meteorites.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Meteorites</span></a> <br> <a href="migmatite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Migmatite</span></a> </p> <p><a href="obsidian.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Obsidian</span></a> <br> <a href="onyx.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Onyx</span></a> </p> <p><span style='font-family:Arial'><a href="perthite.htm">Perthite</a><br> <a href="porphyry.htm">Porphyry</a></span> <br> <a href="psilomelane.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Psilomelane</span></a> </p> <p><a href="quartzite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Quartzite</span></a> </p> <p><a href="rhodochrosite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Rhodochrosite</span></a> <br> <a href="rhodonite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Rhodonite</span></a> <br> <a href="rhyolite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Rhyolite</span></a></p> </td> <td width="50%" valign=top style='width:50.0%;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt; height:452.25pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><a href="sandstone.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Sandstone</span></a> <br> <a href="septarium.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Septarium</span></a> <br> <span style='font-family:Arial'><a href="meerschaum.htm">Sepiolite</a></span><br> <a href="serpentine.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Serpentine</span></a><br> <a href="slate.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Slate</span></a><br> <a href="smithsonite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Smithsonite</span></a> <br> <a href="soapstone.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Soapstone</span></a> <br> <a href="sodalite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Sodalite</span></a><br> <a href="soapstone.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Steatite</span></a><br> <a href="sugilite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Sugilite</span></a> </p> <p><a href="tektite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Tektite</span></a> <br> <a href="thomsonite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Thomsonite</span></a> <br> <a href="thunderegg.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Thunder egg</span></a> <br> <a href="hawkseye.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Tiger's-eye</span></a><br> <a href="travertine.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Travertine</span></a> <br> <a href="turquoise.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Turquoise</span></a> </p> <p><a href="unakite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Unakite</span></a> </p> <p><a href="variscite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Variscite</span></a> <br> <a href="vesuvianite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Vesuvianite</span></a> </p> <p><a href="zoisite.htm"><span style='font-family:Arial'>Zoisite</span></a> </p> <p><b><span style='font-family:Arial'>Appendices:</span></b> <br> <span style='font-family:Arial'>A. <a href="gemrxAppA.htm">Additional Gemrocks</a></span> <br> <span style='font-family:Arial'>B. <a href="gemrxAppB.htm">Glossary</a></span> <br> <span style='font-family:Arial'>C. <a href="gemrxAppC.htm">Selected References</a></span> <br> <span style='font-family:Arial'>D. <a href="gemrxAppD.htm">Carib's artifacts</a></span></p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <p align=center style='text-align:center'>| <a href="#top">Top</a> | </p> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </div> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:Arial'>R. V. Dietrich © 2011</span></b> <br> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Revised: Jul 18, 2011</span> <br> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>web page created by Emmett Mason</span> </p> </div> </body>