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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as geology)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,001 ratings — published 2001
Annals of the Former World (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as geology)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,308 ratings — published 1998
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as geology)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,593 ratings — published 2003
Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)
by (shelved 114 times as geology)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,083 ratings — published 1981
Earth: An Intimate History (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as geology)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,338 ratings — published 2004
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as geology)
avg rating 4.22 — 415,207 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 — 3,103 ratings — published 2012
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as geology)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,211 ratings — published 2005
The Ends of the World (ebook)
by (shelved 73 times as geology)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,941 ratings — published 2017
Principles of Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as geology)
avg rating 3.91 — 355 ratings — published 1830
Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3)
by (shelved 61 times as geology)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,942 ratings — published 1986
Assembling California (Annals of the Former World, 4)
by (shelved 61 times as geology)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,262 ratings — published 1992
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as geology)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,684 ratings — published 2018
Reading The Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as geology)
avg rating 3.98 — 588 ratings — published 2005
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as geology)
avg rating 4.23 — 20,409 ratings — published 2019
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as geology)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,295 ratings — published 2021
In Suspect Terrain (Annals of the Former World, 2)
by (shelved 48 times as geology)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,255 ratings — published 1983
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as geology)
avg rating 4.15 — 77,867 ratings — published 2014
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as geology)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,993 ratings — published 2019
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as geology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,181 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 45 times as geology)
avg rating 3.86 — 973 ratings — published 2003
The Control of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as geology)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,877 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 4.21 — 38,929 ratings — published 2018
The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as geology)
avg rating 3.88 — 610 ratings — published 2003
Grand Canyon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as geology)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,661 ratings — published 2017
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as geology)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,996 ratings — published 1997
Rocks and Minerals (Smithsonian Handbooks)
by (shelved 32 times as geology)
avg rating 4.13 — 662 ratings — published 1992
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as geology)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,386 ratings — published 2000
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 3.90 — 460 ratings — published 1987
Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as geology)
avg rating 4.03 — 979 ratings — published 2021
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as geology)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,824 ratings — published 2016
Why Geology Matters: Decoding the Past, Anticipating the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as geology)
avg rating 4.12 — 144 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 — 744 ratings — published 2011
Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as geology)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,409 ratings — published 2009
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as geology)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,516 ratings — published 2003
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as geology)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,320 ratings — published 1839
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals: North America (National Audubon Society Field Guides)
by (shelved 25 times as geology)
avg rating 4.28 — 489 ratings — published 1978
Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as geology)
avg rating 3.86 — 269 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 — 417 ratings — published 2003
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as geology)
avg rating 4.27 — 525 ratings — published 2024
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 — 1,997 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 — 517 ratings — published 2012
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as geology)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,320 ratings — published 2022
The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as geology)
avg rating 4.21 — 323 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 — 28,300 ratings — published 2008
The Practical Geologist: The Introductory Guide to the Basics of Geology and to Collecting and Identifying Rocks (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as geology)
avg rating 3.84 — 155 ratings — published 1992
Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks and Minerals (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as geology)
avg rating 4.19 — 221 ratings — published 1977
The Planet in a Pebble: A Journey into Earth's Deep History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as geology)
avg rating 3.80 — 246 ratings — published 2010
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth (Princeton Science Library)
by (shelved 22 times as geology)
avg rating 3.99 — 762 ratings — published 2003
Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as geology)
avg rating 3.81 — 392 ratings — published 1999
“The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface.”
― How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever
― How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever
“On the geological calendar, all of recorded history takes place during the last four seconds of New Year's Eve. 12:59:56, 12:59:57, 12:59:58, 12:59:59. When scaled down, everything humans know about anything, everything we love, everything we've made - condensed into four seconds. We come and go in the amount of time it takes to uncap a bottle of water and take a sip, sign on the dotted line, or fasten a seat belt.”
― Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
― Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
