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).

Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave (Caldecott Honor)
Strata: Stories from Deep Time
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
When You Find the Right Rock
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
Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future
The High Sierra: A Love Story
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
The Secret History of Sharks: The Rise of the Ocean's Most Fearsome Predators
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
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
Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3)
Assembling California (Annals of the Former World, 4)
Principles of Geology
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth
From the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean   DalyA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Map That Changed the World by Simon WinchesterAnnals of the Former World by John McPheeBasin and Range by John McPhee
Best Geology Books
128 books — 86 voters

A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
History of the Universe and Earth
153 books — 77 voters
The Descent by Jeff LongStill Life With Crows by Douglas PrestonThe Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. AuelBeyond Mammoth Cave by James D. BordenBlind Descent by James M. Tabor
All About Caves
81 books — 28 voters


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

Neal Ascherson
At the end of most streets of Edinburgh's Old Town rises the crimson wall of Salisbury Craigs, a lesson in the unimaginable forces and lapses of time which have gone to shape the world. The Craigs are a basalt intrusion, a fossil tide of volcanic rock which surged through the foundations of a dead volcano some 200 million years ago. Geology and paleontology, with their revelations of deep time and alien life-forms, towered up wherever 19th century Scots turned their eyes. the 'testimony of the r ...more
Neal Ascherson, Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland

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