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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as geology)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,106 ratings — published 2001
Annals of the Former World (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as geology)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,341 ratings — published 1998
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883] (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as geology)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,816 ratings — published 2003
Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)
by (shelved 113 times as geology)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,135 ratings — published 1981
Earth: An Intimate History (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as geology)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,346 ratings — published 2004
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as geology)
avg rating 4.22 — 420,832 ratings — published 2003
The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as geology)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,163 ratings — published 2012
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as geology)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,241 ratings — published 2005
The Ends of the World (ebook)
by (shelved 75 times as geology)
avg rating 4.29 — 6,078 ratings — published 2017
Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3)
by (shelved 62 times as geology)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,964 ratings — published 1986
Principles of Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as geology)
avg rating 3.91 — 356 ratings — published 1830
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as geology)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,742 ratings — published 2018
Assembling California (Annals of the Former World, 4)
by (shelved 61 times as geology)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,285 ratings — published 1992
Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as geology)
avg rating 3.99 — 605 ratings — published 2005
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as geology)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,492 ratings — published 2021
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as geology)
avg rating 4.23 — 20,982 ratings — published 2019
In Suspect Terrain (Annals of the Former World, 2)
by (shelved 48 times as geology)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,270 ratings — published 1983
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as geology)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,124 ratings — published 2019
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as geology)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,025 ratings — published 2014
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as geology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,251 ratings — published 1989
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 — 982 ratings — published 2003
The Control of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as geology)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,928 ratings — published 1989
The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as geology)
avg rating 3.89 — 620 ratings — published 2003
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as geology)
avg rating 4.21 — 40,050 ratings — published 2018
Grand Canyon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as geology)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,683 ratings — published 2017
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as geology)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,032 ratings — published 1997
Rocks and Minerals (Smithsonian Handbooks)
by (shelved 32 times as geology)
avg rating 4.13 — 665 ratings — published 1992
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as geology)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,396 ratings — published 2000
Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as geology)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,017 ratings — published 2021
Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as geology)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,430 ratings — published 2009
Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)
by (shelved 29 times as geology)
avg rating 3.91 — 465 ratings — published 1987
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as geology)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,902 ratings — published 2016
Why Geology Matters: Decoding the Past, Anticipating the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 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 29 times as geology)
avg rating 4.18 — 748 ratings — published 2011
The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as geology)
avg rating 4.19 — 339 ratings — published 2017
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as geology)
avg rating 4.26 — 646 ratings — published 2024
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals: North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as geology)
avg rating 4.28 — 494 ratings — published 1978
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as geology)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,538 ratings — published 2003
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as geology)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,413 ratings — published 1839
Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as geology)
avg rating 3.86 — 271 ratings — published 2007
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 — 420 ratings — published 2003
The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as geology)
avg rating 3.97 — 519 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 3.85 — 158 ratings — published 1992
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as geology)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,682 ratings — published 2022
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as geology)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,026 ratings — published 2017
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 — 28,750 ratings — published 2008
Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks and Minerals (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as geology)
avg rating 4.19 — 221 ratings — published 1977
How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as geology)
avg rating 4.43 — 355 ratings — published 2021
The Planet in a Pebble: A Journey into Earth's Deep History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as geology)
avg rating 3.79 — 248 ratings — published 2010
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as geology)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,935 ratings — published 2013
“Nevada...a land that is geology by day and astronomy at night”
― Desert Challenge: An Interpretation of Nevada
― Desert Challenge: An Interpretation of Nevada
“Rocks are time made manifest.”
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