Synopses & Reviews
The Lake Superior region is nationally known as a rock hound's paradise, and agates are its most cherished treasures. This field guide spotlights each type of agate and provides you with the information you need for locating and identifying them. The easy-to-use format and full-color photos make this a must-have for rock collectors.
Synopsis
Beginner or Expert, This Is Your Guide to Lake Superior Agates
Get the perfect guide to agates in the Lake Superior states This book by Dan R. Lynch and Bob Lynch features comprehensive entries for every type of agate found in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and southern Ontario. The easy-to-use format means you'll quickly find what you need to know and where to look. The authors' incredible, sharp, full-color photographs depict the detail needed for identification--no need to guess from line drawings.
With this field guide in hand, identifying and collecting is fun and informative.
Synopsis
Get this must-have guide for Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, featuring full-color photographs and information to help you identify agates.
Identify and collect agates with the perfect guide to Lake Superior. With this famous field guide by Dan R. Lynch and Bob Lynch, field identification is simple and informative. The book features comprehensive entries: four pages of photos and facts for every type of agate found in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and southern Ontario. That means you're more likely to identify what you've found. The authors know rocks and took their own full-color photographs to depict the detail needed for identification--no more guessing from line drawings. The field guide's easy-to-use format helps you to quickly find what you need to know and where to look.
Inside you'll find:
- 30 specimens: Only agates found in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and southern Ontario
- Identification Guide: Introduction to agates, ID tips, agate look-alikes, and where to find agates
- Range/occurrence maps: See where each specimen is commonly found
- Professional photos: Crisp, stunning images
Beginner or expert, this is your guide to Lake Superior agates. With this field guide in hand, identifying and collecting is fun and informative
About the Author
Dan R. Lynch has a degree in graphic design with emphasis on photography from the University of Minnesota Duluth. But before his love of art and writing came a passion for rocks and minerals, developed during his lifetime growing up in his parents' rock shop in Two Harbors, Minnesota. Combining the two aspects of his life seemed a natural choice and he enjoys researching, writing about, and taking photographs of rocks and minerals. Working with his father, Bob Lynch, a respected veteran of Lake Superior's agate-collecting community, Dan spearheads their series of rock and mineral field guides: definitive guidebooks that help amateurs "decode" the complexities of geology and mineralogy. He also takes special care to ensure that his photographs compliment the text and always represent each rock or mineral exactly as it appears in person. He currently works as a writer and photographer in Bellingham, Washington, with his beautiful fiancée, Julie.