Geology

Geology is the science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change. Geology can also refer generally to the study of the solid features of any celestial body (such as the geology of the Moon or Mars).

Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave (Caldecott Honor)
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
When You Find the Right Rock
Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
A Stone Is a Story
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
The Age of Dinosaurs: The Rise and Fall of the World’s Most Remarkable Animals
Caves (Adventure Through Nature)
Strata: Stories from Deep Time
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
Egg Marks the Spot (Skunk and Badger, #2)
Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
Annals of the Former World
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)
Earth: An Intimate History (Vintage)
The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Crack in the Edge of the World
The Ends of the World
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3)
Principles of Geology
Assembling California (Annals of the Former World, 4)
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth
Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingCollapse by Jared Diamond
Big History
269 books — 110 voters

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Science Books Published In/After 2012
118 books — 27 voters
An Essay Upon Wind; With Curious Anecdotes of Eminent Peteurs... by Charles FoxAlbum D'Un Pessimiste by Alphonse RabbeThe Case Of The. Fox by William StanleyThe Dream-god, or A Singular Evolvement of Thought in Sleep by John CunninghamMelancholike Humours, in Verses of Diverse Natures by Nicholas Breton
Fascinating/Zero Rating
100 books — 3 voters

Sacred Darkness by Holley MoyesInto the Planet by Jill HeinerthThe Darkness Beckons by Martyn FarrUnderground by Will HuntLasturia by Benjamin Chandler
The Devil Trying To Pull Us Down
193 books — 4 voters
The Yellow River by Ruth MosternA Historical Survey of the Yellow River and the River Civiliz... by Jianxiong GeYellow River Odyssey by Bill PorterControlling the Dragon by Randall A. DodgenFixing Landscape by Corey Byrnes
Rivers of China
39 books — 1 voter


George Monbiot
walking in the Cambrian Desert, it sometimes seems impossible to imagine trees returning there, the emptiness stands as an incontestable fact, as if it were a matter of geology, not ecology
George Monbiot, Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life

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 own self-ge ...more
John McPhee, Annals of the Former World

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