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)
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
Egg Marks the Spot (Skunk and Badger, #2)
Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
Strata: Stories from Deep Time
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid
The Age of Dinosaurs: The Rise and Fall of the World’s Most Remarkable Animals
When the Ice Is Gone: What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth's Tumultuous History and Perilous Future
Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
Annals of the Former World (#1-4)
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883]
Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)
Earth: An Intimate History
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
Principles of Geology
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3)
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
266 books — 108 voters
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootFind Where The Wind Goes by Mae C. JemisonDavid Blackwell and the Deadliest Duel by Robert A. BlackGroundwork by Genna Rae McNeil
Hidden Figures: African-Americans
19 books — 5 voters

A Stone Is a Story by Leslie Barnard BoothEverybody Needs a Rock by Byrd BaylorThe Rocking Book of Rocks by Amy BallA Rock Is Lively by Dianna Hutts AstonGrand Canyon by Jason Chin
Best Picture Books About Rocks
5 books — 8 voters
A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
History of the Universe and Earth
149 books — 75 voters

From the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean   DalyA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Map That Changed the World by Simon WinchesterAnnals of the Former World by John McPheeBasin and Range by John McPhee
Best Geology Books
128 books — 88 voters


Iain McCalman
. . . most humans were not so good at grasping aspects of nature that couldn't be clearly defined or placed into hierarchies, even though nature's products were 'seldom organized into species at all.' Now [Charlie Vernon] saw that, considered over vast geographical space and long swathes of geological time, coral species were malleable and temporary units, fluidly interlinked by their genes to other units, and forming ever-changing patterns. Corals had to be treated as continua, not as fixed, is ...more
Iain McCalman, The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change

W.H. Auden
Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.
W. H. Auden

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