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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 — 14,375 ratings — published 2001
Annals of the Former World (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as geology)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,463 ratings — published 1998
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as geology)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,385 ratings — published 2003
Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)
by (shelved 116 times as geology)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,276 ratings — published 1981
Earth: An Intimate History (Vintage)
by (shelved 101 times as geology)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,359 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 — 3,290 ratings — published 2012
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as geology)
avg rating 4.21 — 436,291 ratings — published 2003
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as geology)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,358 ratings — published 2005
The Ends of the World (ebook)
by (shelved 77 times as geology)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,419 ratings — published 2017
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as geology)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,880 ratings — published 2018
Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3)
by (shelved 64 times as geology)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,030 ratings — published 1986
Assembling California (Annals of the Former World, 4)
by (shelved 64 times as geology)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,353 ratings — published 1992
Principles of Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as geology)
avg rating 3.91 — 365 ratings — published 1830
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as geology)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,011 ratings — published 2021
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as geology)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,466 ratings — published 2019
Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as geology)
avg rating 4.00 — 634 ratings — published 2005
In Suspect Terrain (Annals of the Former World, 2)
by (shelved 49 times as geology)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,326 ratings — published 1983
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as geology)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,340 ratings — published 2019
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as geology)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,227 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 — 990 ratings — published 2003
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as geology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,413 ratings — published 1989
The Control of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as geology)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,113 ratings — published 1989
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as geology)
avg rating 4.22 — 43,907 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 — 632 ratings — published 2003
Grand Canyon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as geology)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,726 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 — 1,104 ratings — published 2021
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as geology)
avg rating 4.23 — 896 ratings — published 2024
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as geology)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,110 ratings — published 1997
The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as geology)
avg rating 4.20 — 365 ratings — published 2017
Rocks and Minerals (Smithsonian Handbooks)
by (shelved 32 times as geology)
avg rating 4.13 — 685 ratings — published 1992
Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as geology)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,472 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 3.91 — 471 ratings — published 1987
Why Geology Matters: Decoding the Past, Anticipating the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as geology)
avg rating 4.14 — 147 ratings — published 2011
Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as geology)
avg rating 4.19 — 776 ratings — published 2011
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as geology)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,421 ratings — published 2000
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as geology)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,129 ratings — published 2016
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as geology)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,563 ratings — published 2022
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as geology)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,570 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
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as geology)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,693 ratings — published 1839
How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as geology)
avg rating 4.43 — 386 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 — 501 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 — 2,123 ratings — published 2017
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 — 426 ratings — published 2003
Strata: Stories from Deep Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as geology)
avg rating 4.05 — 669 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 — 2,992 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 — 522 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 — 29,976 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
“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 rocks' threatened their moral universe, its narrative incompatible with a creation myth or even a creator... Old Edinburgh is shaped like a gigantic lecture theatre with the end wall covered by a chart of the earth's origins.”
― Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland
― Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland
“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”
―
