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).

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
The High Sierra: A Love Story
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
When You Find the Right Rock
Strata: Stories from Deep Time
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
Dyke (geology)
California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
Notes from Deep Time
The Secret History of Sharks: The Rise of the Ocean's Most Fearsome Predators
The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
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
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
A Crack in the Edge of the World
The Ends of the World
Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3)
Principles of Geology
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
Assembling California (Annals of the Former World, 4)
Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

John McPhee
When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summi ...more
John McPhee, Annals of the Former World

Every grain of sand is a fragment of time, telling tales of the world's ancient history. ...more
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