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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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Basin and Range
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Earth: An Intimate History
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When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth
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Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World
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The Control of Nature
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Coming Into the Country
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Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It
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Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth
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Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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Why Geology Matters: Decoding the Past, Anticipating the Future
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
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The Mountains of Saint Francis
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Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere
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Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
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Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World
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The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?
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Groundwater for the 21st Century: A Primer for Citizens of Planet Earth
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The Granite Landscape: A Natural History of America's Mountain Domes, from Acadia to Yosemite
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Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages
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Barren Lands: An Epic Search For Diamonds in the North American Arctic
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The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be
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Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology
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4.14 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail
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Lake Michigan Rock Picker's Guide
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The Geology of Australia
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A World Without Ice
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Australia and Its Gold Fields: A Historical Sketch of the Progress of the Australian Colonies, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day; With a Particular Account of the Recent Gold Discoveries, and Observations on the Present Aspect of the Land Questio
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
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The Planet in a Pebble: A Journey Into Earth's Deep History
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The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
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The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood
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Odyssey of a Desert Prospector
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Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet
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The Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Lethal Oceans, and the Search for Past Apocalypses
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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The Romance of Mining
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Gold: A Field Guide for Prospectors and Geologists
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Fire into Ice
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Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape
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Granite and Grit: A Walker's Guide to the Geology of British Mountains
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A trip through death valley's geologic past : The magnificent rocks of Death Valley
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Geology Illustrated
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After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America
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Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
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Structural Geology
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Groundbreaking! America's New Quest for Mineral Independence
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The Mountains of California
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A History of American Mining
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Roadside Geology of Georgia
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Roadside History of New Mexico
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The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes
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Earth: Portrait of a Planet
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3.89 avg rating — 275 ratings
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Grand Canyon
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Going for Gold: The History of Newmont Mining Corporation
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New View of Earth: Science & Society
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Children Of The Ice: Climate And Human Origins
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Roadside Geology of Florida (Roadside Geology, #30)
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Hypersea: Life on Land
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Geology Underfoot Along Colorado's Front Range
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Australia's Volcanoes
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A Hole in the Ground with a Liar at the Top: Fraud and Deceit in the Golden Age of American Mining
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North Pole, South Pole: The Epic Quest to Solve the Great Mystery of Earth’s Magnetism
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3.74 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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Hiking the Grand Canyon's Geology
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Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau
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Gorgon: The Monsters That Ruled the Planet Before Dinosaurs and How They Died in the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History
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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
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Grasberg: Mining the Richest and Most Remote Deposit of Copper and Gold in the World, in the Mountains of Irian Jaya, Indonesia
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Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology
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Water, Peace, and War: Confronting the Global Water Crisis
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Waves and Beaches: The Dynamics of the Ocean Surface
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Bre X: Gold Today, Gone Tomorrow
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Planet Earth: Cosmology, Geology, and the Evolution of Life and Environment
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Gems & Minerals: Earth Treasures from the Royal Ontario Museum
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Groundwater and Wells
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The Big Score: Robert Friedland, INCO, And The Voisey's Bay Hustle
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Rising from the Plains
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Assembling California
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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
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Valles Caldera: A Geologic History
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The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat
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Volcanoes of Northern Arizona
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Geologic History of Middle California
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes
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Sedona Through Time: Geology of the Red Rocks
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Principles of Geology
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The Big One: The Earthquake That Rocked Early America and Helped Create a Science
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Mines In The Spinifex; The Story Of Mount Isa Mines
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Tales Of The Earth: Paroxysms And Perturbations Of The Blue Planet
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The Peaks Of Lyell
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Amber: Window to the Past
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Beach Stones
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Mountains of ore and rivers of gold: stories of a contemporary prospector
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