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Best Less Popular Geology Books on Goodreads
(38 Books)
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Principles of Geology
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Charles Lyell
3.91 avg rating — 358 ratings
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Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth
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Marcia Bjornerud
3.99 avg rating — 608 ratings
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Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet
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Ted Nield
3.85 avg rating — 271 ratings
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The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood
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David R. Montgomery
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3.97 avg rating — 521 ratings
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Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
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Stephen Jay Gould
3.91 avg rating — 465 ratings
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Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail
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Keith Heyer Meldahl
4.37 avg rating — 251 ratings
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals: North America
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Charles W. Chesterman
4.28 avg rating — 495 ratings
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The Practical Geologist: The Introductory Guide to the Basics of Geology and to Collecting and Identifying Rocks
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Dougal Dixon
3.86 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It
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Gabrielle Walker
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3.99 avg rating — 419 ratings
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The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?
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Jan Zalasiewicz
3.77 avg rating — 188 ratings
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Earthquake Storms
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John Dvorak
3.94 avg rating — 564 ratings
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Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks and Minerals
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Annibale Mottana
4.19 avg rating — 221 ratings
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Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology
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Edward J. Tarbuck
3.81 avg rating — 392 ratings
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Physical Geology
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Charles C. Plummer
3.88 avg rating — 387 ratings
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Rocks and Minerals
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Herbert S. Zim
3.90 avg rating — 350 ratings
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Understanding Earth
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John P. Grotzinger
4.02 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Roadside Geology of Washington (Roadside Geology Series)
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David D. Alt
3.96 avg rating — 160 ratings
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The Planet in a Pebble: A Journey into Earth's Deep History
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Jan Zalasiewicz
3.80 avg rating — 249 ratings
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Roadside Geology Of Colorado (Roadside Geology Series)
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Halka Chronic
4.05 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything
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Doug Macdougall
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4.02 avg rating — 128 ratings
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A Peterson Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals
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Frederick H. Pough
3.88 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Roadside Geology of Arizona
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Halka Chronic
4.18 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
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Lewis Dartnell
4.17 avg rating — 4,149 ratings
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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
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Marcia Bjornerud
4.07 avg rating — 1,763 ratings
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Essentials of Geology
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Stephen Marshak
3.66 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
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Andrew H. Knoll
3.98 avg rating — 787 ratings
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Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
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Sam Boggs Jr.
3.94 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Earth: Portrait of a Planet
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Stephen Marshak
3.89 avg rating — 289 ratings
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The Hidden Landscape: A Journey into the Geological Past
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Richard Fortey
4.06 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Earth
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douglas-palmer
4.38 avg rating — 265 ratings
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Island on Fire
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Alexandra Witze
3.86 avg rating — 857 ratings
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Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World
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Gillen D'Arcy Wood
3.70 avg rating — 709 ratings
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Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages
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Doug Macdougall
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4.08 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Bones, Rocks and Stars: The Science of When Things Happened
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Chris Turney
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4.06 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Windows into the Earth: The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks
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Robert Baer Smith
4.01 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Roadside Geology of Oregon (Roadside Geology Series)
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David D. Alt
3.90 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Sand: The Never-Ending Story
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Michael Welland
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3.99 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Bretz's Flood: The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood
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John Soennichsen
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4.09 avg rating — 256 ratings
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