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).

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave
The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
Egg Marks the Spot (Skunk and Badger, #2)
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
When You Find the Right Rock
California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid
Strata: Stories from Deep Time
The High Sierra: A Love Story
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
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
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
Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3)
Principles of Geology
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
Assembling California (Annals of the Former World, 4)
Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootLab Girl by Hope JahrenSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonAlien Earths by Lisa KalteneggerInvisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez
Women in Science
326 books — 103 voters
Missouri Caves in History and Legend by H. Dwight WeaverBlind Descent by Nevada Barr
Caves!!
2 books — 2 voters

A 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 McPheeEarth by Richard Fortey
Best Geology Books
127 books — 70 voters

The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaA Crack in Creation by Jennifer A. Doudna21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah HarariLife on the Edge by Johnjoe McFaddenThe Epigenetics Revolution by Nessa Carey
Science Books Published In/After 2012
118 books — 27 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


Considering chickens alone, their fossils may be a marker for the Anthropocene. The body size and body shape of today’s “broiler chickens” are distinct from that of wild fowl of their early twentieth-century cousins. Their worldwide distribution and massive population size will probably ensure that they will be well represented in the future fossil record. Future geologists might use a “chicken signal” to indicate that the strata they are examining are close to the start of the Anthropocene.
John Dvorak, How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America

Neal Ascherson
At the end of most streets of Edinburgh's Old Town rises the crimson wall of Salisbury Craigs, a lesson in the unimaginable forces and lapses of time which have gone to shape the world. The Craigs are a basalt intrusion, a fossil tide of volcanic rock which surged through the foundations of a dead volcano some 200 million years ago. Geology and paleontology, with their revelations of deep time and alien life-forms, towered up wherever 19th century Scots turned their eyes. the 'testimony of the r ...more
Neal Ascherson, Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland

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