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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as geology)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,046 ratings — published 2001
Annals of the Former World (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as geology)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,318 ratings — published 1998
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as geology)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,696 ratings — published 2003
Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)
by (shelved 114 times as geology)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,098 ratings — published 1981
Earth: An Intimate History (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as geology)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,343 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 — 3,136 ratings — published 2012
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as geology)
avg rating 4.22 — 417,475 ratings — published 2003
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as geology)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,226 ratings — published 2005
The Ends of the World (ebook)
by (shelved 72 times as geology)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,997 ratings — published 2017
Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3)
by (shelved 62 times as geology)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,952 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 — 2,272 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 — 1,708 ratings — published 2018
Reading The Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as geology)
avg rating 3.98 — 596 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 — 4,369 ratings — published 2021
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as geology)
avg rating 4.23 — 20,678 ratings — published 2019
In Suspect Terrain (Annals of the Former World, 2)
by (shelved 48 times as geology)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,261 ratings — published 1983
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as geology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,215 ratings — published 1989
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as geology)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,056 ratings — published 2019
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as geology)
avg rating 4.15 — 78,393 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 — 976 ratings — published 2003
The Control of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as geology)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,901 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 — 39,429 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 3.88 — 614 ratings — published 2003
Grand Canyon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as geology)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,670 ratings — published 2017
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as geology)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,013 ratings — published 1997
Rocks and Minerals (Smithsonian Handbooks)
by (shelved 32 times as geology)
avg rating 4.13 — 662 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 — 995 ratings — published 2021
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as geology)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,393 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 — 463 ratings — published 1987
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as geology)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,859 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 — 747 ratings — published 2011
Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as geology)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,420 ratings — published 2009
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals: North America (National Audubon Society Field Guides)
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 — 1,533 ratings — published 2003
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as geology)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,346 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 — 269 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 — 418 ratings — published 2003
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as geology)
avg rating 4.26 — 572 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 — 517 ratings — published 2012
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as geology)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,498 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 — 2,011 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 — 778 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 — 28,487 ratings — published 2008
The Practical Geologist: The Introductory Guide to the Basics of Geology and to Collecting and Identifying Rocks (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as geology)
avg rating 3.84 — 155 ratings — published 1992
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 — 2,921 ratings — published 2013
“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
“To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns the valley or the mountain: but to a naturalist who is reading in the face of the rocks the annals of a former world, the mossy covering which obstructs his view, and renders indistinguishable the different species of stone, is no less than a serious subject of regret.”
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