Historical geology books

50 extraordinary rocky places that tell the story of the Romans and the landscape of their northern frontier Through...  Read More >>

How the idea of deep time transformed how Americans see their country and themselves During the nineteenth century,...  Read More >>

The Connemara region in Western Ireland is world-renowned for its outstanding geology and spectacular landscapes....  Read More >>

A thousand mile, three billion year journey that tells the story of how the land beneath our feet shapes our past,...  Read More >>

How much of what became the folk tales of our ancestors was rooted in scientifically verifiable fact, and what can...  Read More >>

Serves as both a visitor’s guide to one of southwestern Ontario’s most striking landforms - the Elora Gorge on the...  Read More >>

The ancient Egyptian Civilization dominated the northeast corner of Africa-including modern-day Egypt and, at times,...  Read More >>

Early Continent Evolution of the North China Craton discusses the tectono-thermal regimes of the early continental...  Read More >>

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This book presents a significant amount of structural, paleomagnetic and magnetic fabric data in the Central High...  Read More >>

This book is devoted to the Anthropocene, the period of unprecedented human impacts on Earth’s environmental systems...  Read More >>

This book focuses on Meso- to Neoproterozoic geology and Petroleum resources in China. This work will appeal to...  Read More >>

The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet, this arid expanse...  Read More >>

A picture book with stories about 50 special rocky places that have tales to tell about how Durham came to be. If...  Read More >>

The geologist Markes E. Johnson invites readers on a journey through deep time to find the traces of ancient islands....  Read More >>

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This book evaluates the mechanisms that give rise to tectonic plate movements and presents evidence to show that...  Read More >>

Blows the dust off geology to tell the incredibly dramatic story of all the upheavals, volcanic explosions, sea...  Read More >>

This book describes Hungarian karst areas and Hungarian karst research results.  Read More >>

WINNER OF THE BEST MIXED MEDIA BOOK AWARD AT THE CREATIVE BOOK AWARDS 2024  Read More >>

However, this publication does not intend to add another encyclopedic text compilation but to observe and critically...  Read More >>

Precambrian Geotectonics in the Himalaya provides a deep overview...  Read More >>

In two volumes: an annotated facsimile of this classic title (first published 1841) plus a Critical Study. Ross-shire...  Read More >>

‘Full of wonder and forensic intelligence’ Isabella Tree, author of Wilding A moving account...  Read More >>

This book takes readers to Antarctica, the Arctic and the high mountains, to see what is happening to their ice,...  Read More >>