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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as geology)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,056 ratings — published 2001
Annals of the Former World (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as geology)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,323 ratings — published 1998
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as geology)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,710 ratings — published 2003
Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)
by (shelved 114 times as geology)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,106 ratings — published 1981
Earth: An Intimate History (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as geology)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,346 ratings — published 2004
The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as geology)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,144 ratings — published 2012
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as geology)
avg rating 4.22 — 418,104 ratings — published 2003
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as geology)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,230 ratings — published 2005
The Ends of the World (ebook)
by (shelved 72 times as geology)
avg rating 4.29 — 6,007 ratings — published 2017
Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3)
by (shelved 62 times as geology)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,954 ratings — published 1986
Principles of Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as geology)
avg rating 3.90 — 356 ratings — published 1830
Assembling California (Annals of the Former World, 4)
by (shelved 61 times as geology)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,279 ratings — published 1992
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as geology)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,716 ratings — published 2018
Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as geology)
avg rating 3.98 — 597 ratings — published 2005
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as geology)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,395 ratings — published 2021
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as geology)
avg rating 4.23 — 20,721 ratings — published 2019
In Suspect Terrain (Annals of the Former World, 2)
by (shelved 48 times as geology)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,264 ratings — published 1983
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as geology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,225 ratings — published 1989
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as geology)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,066 ratings — published 2019
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as geology)
avg rating 4.15 — 78,526 ratings — published 2014
The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as geology)
avg rating 3.86 — 978 ratings — published 2003
The Control of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as geology)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,902 ratings — published 1989
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as geology)
avg rating 4.21 — 39,534 ratings — published 2018
The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as geology)
avg rating 3.89 — 616 ratings — published 2003
Grand Canyon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as geology)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,675 ratings — published 2017
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as geology)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,017 ratings — published 1997
Rocks and Minerals (Smithsonian Handbooks)
by (shelved 32 times as geology)
avg rating 4.13 — 663 ratings — published 1992
Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as geology)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,004 ratings — published 2021
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as geology)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,394 ratings — published 2000
Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)
by (shelved 29 times as geology)
avg rating 3.91 — 465 ratings — published 1987
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as geology)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,867 ratings — published 2016
Why Geology Matters: Decoding the Past, Anticipating the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as geology)
avg rating 4.12 — 145 ratings — published 2011
Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as geology)
avg rating 4.18 — 748 ratings — published 2011
Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as geology)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,423 ratings — published 2009
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals: North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as geology)
avg rating 4.28 — 491 ratings — published 1978
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as geology)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,535 ratings — published 2003
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as geology)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,354 ratings — published 1839
The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as geology)
avg rating 4.20 — 333 ratings — published 2017
Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as geology)
avg rating 3.86 — 271 ratings — published 2007
Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as geology)
avg rating 3.99 — 419 ratings — published 2003
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as geology)
avg rating 4.25 — 592 ratings — published 2024
The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as geology)
avg rating 3.97 — 518 ratings — published 2012
The Practical Geologist: The Introductory Guide to the Basics of Geology and to Collecting and Identifying Rocks (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as geology)
avg rating 3.84 — 156 ratings — published 1992
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as geology)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,536 ratings — published 2022
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as geology)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,012 ratings — published 2017
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth (Princeton Science Library)
by (shelved 23 times as geology)
avg rating 3.98 — 783 ratings — published 2003
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as geology)
avg rating 4.04 — 28,542 ratings — published 2008
Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks and Minerals (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as geology)
avg rating 4.19 — 221 ratings — published 1977
The Planet in a Pebble: A Journey into Earth's Deep History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as geology)
avg rating 3.79 — 248 ratings — published 2010
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as geology)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,922 ratings — published 2013
“. . . 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, isolated units.”
― The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change
― The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change
“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...”
― Moon Tiger
― Moon Tiger
