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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as geology)
avg rating 3.81 — 14,231 ratings — published 2001
Annals of the Former World (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as geology)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,411 ratings — published 1998
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as geology)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,120 ratings — published 2003
Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)
by (shelved 114 times as geology)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,209 ratings — published 1981
Earth: An Intimate History (Vintage)
by (shelved 101 times as geology)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,353 ratings — published 2004
The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as geology)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,233 ratings — published 2012
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as geology)
avg rating 4.22 — 429,099 ratings — published 2003
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as geology)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,302 ratings — published 2005
The Ends of the World (ebook)
by (shelved 76 times as geology)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,251 ratings — published 2017
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as geology)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,826 ratings — published 2018
Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3)
by (shelved 63 times as geology)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,001 ratings — published 1986
Principles of Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as geology)
avg rating 3.91 — 361 ratings — published 1830
Assembling California (Annals of the Former World, 4)
by (shelved 62 times as geology)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,321 ratings — published 1992
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as geology)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,767 ratings — published 2021
Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as geology)
avg rating 3.99 — 624 ratings — published 2005
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as geology)
avg rating 4.22 — 21,743 ratings — published 2019
In Suspect Terrain (Annals of the Former World, 2)
by (shelved 49 times as geology)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,304 ratings — published 1983
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as geology)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,213 ratings — published 2019
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as geology)
avg rating 4.15 — 80,793 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 — 983 ratings — published 2003
The Control of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as geology)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,021 ratings — published 1989
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as geology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,332 ratings — published 1989
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 — 627 ratings — published 2003
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as geology)
avg rating 4.21 — 42,121 ratings — published 2018
Grand Canyon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as geology)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,707 ratings — published 2017
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as geology)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,067 ratings — published 1997
Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as geology)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,069 ratings — published 2021
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as geology)
avg rating 4.24 — 794 ratings — published 2024
Rocks and Minerals (Smithsonian Handbooks)
by (shelved 32 times as geology)
avg rating 4.13 — 682 ratings — published 1992
Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as geology)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,455 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 — 468 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 4.20 — 357 ratings — published 2017
Why Geology Matters: Decoding the Past, Anticipating the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as geology)
avg rating 4.14 — 147 ratings — published 2011
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as geology)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,407 ratings — published 2000
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as geology)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,993 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 — 762 ratings — published 2011
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as geology)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,552 ratings — published 2003
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals: North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as geology)
avg rating 4.28 — 499 ratings — published 1978
Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as geology)
avg rating 3.85 — 274 ratings — published 2007
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as geology)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,578 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 — 421 ratings — published 2003
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as geology)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,141 ratings — published 2022
How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as geology)
avg rating 4.42 — 377 ratings — published 2021
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as geology)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,071 ratings — published 2017
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
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 3.87 — 160 ratings — published 1992
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as geology)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,967 ratings — published 2013
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as geology)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,430 ratings — published 2008
Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as geology)
avg rating 3.82 — 395 ratings — published 1999
The Planet in a Pebble: A Journey into Earth's Deep History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as geology)
avg rating 3.80 — 253 ratings — published 2010
“As the origin of the discipline of geology, and as one of the oldest landmasses on earth, Scotland is emblematic of the ancient forces by which the earth has been shaped long before the advent of humanity and its belief in the progress of history.”
― The International Companion to the Scottish Novel
― The International Companion to the Scottish Novel
“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
