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).

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Stalactite & Stalagmite
Strata: Stories from Deep Time
The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
The High Sierra: A Love Story
When You Find the Right Rock
Egg Marks the Spot (Skunk and Badger, #2)
Notes from Deep Time
When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid
Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth
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
Principles of Geology
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
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Martian Aeolian Geomorphology by Zhibao DongSacred Darkness by Holley MoyesInto the Planet by Jill HeinerthThe Darkness Beckons by Martyn FarrUnderground by Will Hunt
The Devil Trying To Pull Us Down
194 books — 10 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill  BrysonThe Map That Changed the World by Simon WinchesterAnnals of the Former World by John McPheeFrom the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean   DalyBasin and Range by John McPhee
Best Geology Books
208 books — 94 voters
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
369 books — 120 voters


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

“ There is no thrill like the thrill of discovery; no life like the life of a mining camp in the days of its youth. Nevada had known them in full and overflowing measure. The salt of the sea in the blood of a sailor is but a weak and insipid condiment compared with the solution of cyanide, sage and silicate in the blood of the prospector. ”
― C.B. Glasscock

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