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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as geology)
avg rating 3.81 — 14,330 ratings — published 2001
Annals of the Former World (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as geology)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,444 ratings — published 1998
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as geology)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,297 ratings — published 2003
Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)
by (shelved 115 times as geology)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,254 ratings — published 1981
Earth: An Intimate History (Vintage)
by (shelved 101 times as geology)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,356 ratings — published 2004
The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as geology)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,268 ratings — published 2012
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as geology)
avg rating 4.21 — 433,731 ratings — published 2003
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as geology)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,344 ratings — published 2005
The Ends of the World (ebook)
by (shelved 77 times as geology)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,355 ratings — published 2017
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as geology)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,856 ratings — published 2018
Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3)
by (shelved 64 times as geology)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,022 ratings — published 1986
Principles of Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as geology)
avg rating 3.91 — 364 ratings — published 1830
Assembling California (Annals of the Former World, 4)
by (shelved 63 times as geology)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,340 ratings — published 1992
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as geology)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,929 ratings — published 2021
Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as geology)
avg rating 3.99 — 627 ratings — published 2005
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as geology)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,259 ratings — published 2019
In Suspect Terrain (Annals of the Former World, 2)
by (shelved 49 times as geology)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,320 ratings — published 1983
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as geology)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,301 ratings — published 2019
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as geology)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,713 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 46 times as geology)
avg rating 3.86 — 984 ratings — published 2003
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as geology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,388 ratings — published 1989
The Control of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as geology)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,085 ratings — published 1989
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as geology)
avg rating 4.22 — 43,301 ratings — published 2018
The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as geology)
avg rating 3.89 — 630 ratings — published 2003
Grand Canyon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as geology)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,724 ratings — published 2017
Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as geology)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,094 ratings — published 2021
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as geology)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,094 ratings — published 1997
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as geology)
avg rating 4.23 — 869 ratings — published 2024
Rocks and Minerals (Smithsonian Handbooks)
by (shelved 32 times as geology)
avg rating 4.13 — 684 ratings — published 1992
Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as geology)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,463 ratings — published 2009
Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)
by (shelved 30 times as geology)
avg rating 3.90 — 469 ratings — published 1987
The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as geology)
avg rating 4.21 — 365 ratings — published 2017
Why Geology Matters: Decoding the Past, Anticipating the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as geology)
avg rating 4.15 — 147 ratings — published 2011
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as geology)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,424 ratings — published 2000
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as geology)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,081 ratings — published 2016
Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as geology)
avg rating 4.18 — 763 ratings — published 2011
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as geology)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,415 ratings — published 2022
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as geology)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,560 ratings — published 2003
Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as geology)
avg rating 3.85 — 275 ratings — published 2007
How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as geology)
avg rating 4.43 — 384 ratings — published 2021
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals: North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as geology)
avg rating 4.28 — 500 ratings — published 1978
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as geology)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,105 ratings — published 2017
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as geology)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,649 ratings — published 1839
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 — 423 ratings — published 2003
Strata: Stories from Deep Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as geology)
avg rating 4.07 — 603 ratings — published 2025
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as geology)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,987 ratings — published 2013
The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as geology)
avg rating 3.97 — 523 ratings — published 2012
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as geology)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,770 ratings — published 2008
The Practical Geologist: The Introductory Guide to the Basics of Geology and to Collecting and Identifying Rocks (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as geology)
avg rating 3.88 — 161 ratings — published 1992
Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as geology)
avg rating 3.83 — 395 ratings — published 1999
“لقد بدأت أرى نهايتي..
بين طيات محدبة وأطياف قوس قزحي الألوان
ممتدة بعيدًا في الأفق
أتتبع أثار أسلاف من قروش ملائكة وأشجار متحجرة
بلورات لامعة هنا وهناك ،
متناثرة ..تحت ضوء شموس ساطعة وزمهرير ليال مقمرة
ضوء الأزهران يتبعني كنجمة
تتراقص على مسرح مهجور من جنس خبيث
حشد من سحالي وأفاعي وروابط عنق باهتة..
يا أيها العالي العلي
إمنحني سرك
اسرج مصابيح نفسي أكثر فأكثر .. واقترب.
#جيني_حسين_علي
I'm beginning to see my end...
Between convex folds and iridescent arc spectra.
Reaching far towards the horizon.
I follow traces of ancestors of nummulite and petrified trees.
Shining crystals here and there.
Scattered amid the light of dazzling suns and the thunder of moonlit nights.
The growing light pursues me as a star.
dancing on an abandoned stage from the malignant sex.
A crowd of lizards and snakes with faded ties.
Give me your secret.
O Most High...
Light my own lamps and get closer.
#Jenny_Hussien_Ali”
―
بين طيات محدبة وأطياف قوس قزحي الألوان
ممتدة بعيدًا في الأفق
أتتبع أثار أسلاف من قروش ملائكة وأشجار متحجرة
بلورات لامعة هنا وهناك ،
متناثرة ..تحت ضوء شموس ساطعة وزمهرير ليال مقمرة
ضوء الأزهران يتبعني كنجمة
تتراقص على مسرح مهجور من جنس خبيث
حشد من سحالي وأفاعي وروابط عنق باهتة..
يا أيها العالي العلي
إمنحني سرك
اسرج مصابيح نفسي أكثر فأكثر .. واقترب.
#جيني_حسين_علي
I'm beginning to see my end...
Between convex folds and iridescent arc spectra.
Reaching far towards the horizon.
I follow traces of ancestors of nummulite and petrified trees.
Shining crystals here and there.
Scattered amid the light of dazzling suns and the thunder of moonlit nights.
The growing light pursues me as a star.
dancing on an abandoned stage from the malignant sex.
A crowd of lizards and snakes with faded ties.
Give me your secret.
O Most High...
Light my own lamps and get closer.
#Jenny_Hussien_Ali”
―
“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
