A Photographic Guide to
Rocks & Minerals of
New Zealand
by Nick Mortimer, Hamish Campbell, and Margaret Low
2011, New Holland Publishers, soft cover, 144pp

For all the budding geologists out there, we have the Photographic Guide to Rocks & Minerals of New Zealand, in a compact field-guide format.

The colour photographs illustrate 53 rocks and 28 minerals.

Dr Nick Mortimer is a geologist with expertise in mineralogy, petrology and tectonics.  Dr Hamish Campbell is a palaeontologist, well known as an author and for his role as science communicator at Te Papa.  Margaret Low is a science photographer and photo-librarian.  All three work for the NZ Crown Institute, GNS Science.