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).

Most Read This Week Tagged "Geology"

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

Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks

The Age of Dinosaurs: The Rise and Fall of the World’s Most Remarkable Animals

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

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Geology Books

The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)

The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet

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)

Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth

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Lists

Still Life With Crows by Douglas Preston

The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel

All About Caves

81 books — 28 voters

The Vast Wonder of the World by Mélina Mangal

Picture Books About Nature by African-Americans

31 books — 9 voters

Caves!!

2 books — 2 voters

An Essay Upon Wind; With Curious Anecdotes of Eminent Peteurs... by Charles Fox

The Dream-god, or A Singular Evolvement of Thought in Sleep by John Cunningham

Melancholike Humours, in Verses of Diverse Natures by Nicholas Breton

Fascinating/Zero Rating

100 books — 3 voters

A Historical Survey of the Yellow River and the River Civiliz... by Jianxiong Ge

Controlling the Dragon by Randall A. Dodgen

Rivers of China

39 books — 1 voter

Death Valley Photographer's guide by dan suzio

A trip through death valley's geologic past by Kenneth E. Lengner

Twilight of the Jackass Prospector by George R. Carter

Borax Pioneer by George Herbert Hildebrand

Secret Of Death Valley by William Heuman

Books on Death Valley

12 books — 6 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Geology”

“ Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology. ”
― Thomas E. Woods Jr.

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“ Perhaps I shall not write my account of the Paleolithic at all, but make a film of it. A silent film at that, in which I shall show you first the great slumbering rocks of the Cambrian period, and move from those to the mountains of Wales, from Ordovician to Devonian, on the lush glowing Cotswolds, on to the white cliffs of Dover... An impressionistic, dreaming film, in which the folded rocks arise and flower and grow and become Salisbury Cathedral and York Minster... ”
― Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

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