Most Read This Week In 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).

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A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave (Caldecott Honor)
Strata: Stories from Deep Time
Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future
When You Find the Right Rock
California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
A Stone Is a Story
The High Sierra: A Love Story
The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World’s Oceans
Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils
Ice Rivers
Egg Marks the Spot (Skunk and Badger, #2)
Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution
The Red Planet: A Natural History of Mars
Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth
The Secret History of Sharks: The Rise of the Ocean's Most Fearsome Predators
Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves
Earth
The Age of Dinosaurs: The Rise and Fall of the World’s Most Remarkable Animals
Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes
Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones
Down to Earth
Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be
Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System
How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America
Notes from Deep Time
Ms. Adventure: My Wild Explorations in Science, Lava, and Life
A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet
Scratching the Surface
When the Ice Is Gone: What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth's Tumultuous History and Perilous Future
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles
London Clay: Journeys into the Deep City
Caves (Adventure Through Nature)
Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City
Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong
The Greywacke: How a Priest, a Soldier and a Schoolteacher Uncovered 300 Million Years of History
Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond
Volcanoes: A Very Short Introduction

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

W.H. Auden
Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.
W. H. Auden

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