Geology


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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
A Rock Is Lively
Remarkable Creatures
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

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  • Science and Religion by David   Barker
    Science and Religion: Reconciling the Conflicts
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    How much of science is fact, and how much is theory? How much evidence is needed to prove a theory? Why do scientific dating techniques give so many "…more View Details »
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  • The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
    Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
    Annals of the Former World
    Earth: An Intimate History
    A Crack in the Edge of the World
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    Basin and Range
    Assembling California
    The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth
    The Control of Nature
    Principles of Geology
    Rising from the Plains
    The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton And The Discovery Of Earth's Antiquity
    Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth
    The Magic School Bus Inside The Earth

    Nevada...a land that is geology by day and astronomy at night
    Richard G. Lillard, Desert Challenge: An Interpretation of Nevada

    John McPhee
    The Himalayas are the crowning achievement of the Indo-Australian plate. India in the Oligocene crashed head on into Tibet, hit so hard that it not only folded and buckled the plate boundaries but also plowed into the newly created Tibetan plateau and drove the Himalayas five and a half miles into the sky. The mountains are in some trouble. India has not stopped pushing them, and they are still going up. Their height and volume are already so great they are beginning to melt in their in their ow...more
    John McPhee, Annals of the Former World

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    Earth's Blood
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    If a Rock Could Talk
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