Historical geology books

636 books were found.

The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World

The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition...

Author: Patrick Nunn
ISBN: 9781399421058
Format: Paperback
$36.99

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

Rivers in Rock: Elora Gorge Field Companion and Natural History

Rivers in Rock: Elora Gorge Field Companion and Natural...

Author: Kenneth Hewitt
ISBN: 9781771125802
Format: Paperback
$59.40

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Adam’s Bridge: Sacrality, Performance, and Heritage of an Oceanic Marvel

Adam’s Bridge: Sacrality, Performance, and Heritage...

Author: Arup K. Chatterjee
ISBN: 9781032335476
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Tectonic Evolution of the Moroccan High Atlas: A Paleomagnetic Perspective: Magnetic Techniques (Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility and Paleomagnetism) Applied to the Understanding of the Evolution of an Intra-Plate Mountain Chain

Tectonic Evolution of the Moroccan High Atlas: A Paleomagnetic...

Author: Pablo Calvín ,  Antonio M. Casas-Sainz
ISBN: 9783031166952
Format: Paperback
$527.97

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

The Anthropocene

The Anthropocene

Author: David R. Butler
ISBN: 9781032076690
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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

Meso-Neoproterozoic Geology and Petroleum Resources in China

Meso-Neoproterozoic Geology and Petroleum Resources...

Author: Tieguan Wang
ISBN: 9789811956683
Format: Paperback
$659.97

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When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be

When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came...

Author: Martin Williams
ISBN: 9780691253930
Format: Paperback
$60.59

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 >>

Durham Rocks - 50 Extraordinary Rocky Places That Tell The Story of the Durham Landscape

Durham Rocks - 50 Extraordinary Rocky Places That Tell...

Author: Ian Jackson
ISBN: 9781916237698
Format: Paperback
$31.05

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

Islands in Deep Time: Ancient Landscapes Lost and Found

Islands in Deep Time: Ancient Landscapes Lost and Found...

Author: Markes E. Johnson
ISBN: 9780231212199
Format: Paperback
$52.95

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

Islands in Deep Time: Ancient Landscapes Lost and Found

Islands in Deep Time: Ancient Landscapes Lost and Found...

Author: Markes E. Johnson
ISBN: 9780231212182
Format: Hardback
$223.95

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

Major Impacts and Plate Tectonics: A Model for the Phanerzoic Evolution of the Earth's Lithosphere

Major Impacts and Plate Tectonics: A Model for the Phanerzoic...

Author: Neville Price
ISBN: 9781138424067
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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

Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary

Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Journey...

Author: Christopher Somerville
ISBN: 9780857527110
Format: Hardback
$55.00

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

Cave and Karst Systems of Hungary

Cave and Karst Systems of Hungary

Author: Márton Veress ,  Szabolcs Leél-Őssy
ISBN: 9783030929626
Format: Paperback
$475.17

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Seaweed: Foraging, Collecting, Pressing

Seaweed: Foraging, Collecting, Pressing

Author: Melanie Molesworth ,  Julia Bird
ISBN: 9780008557409
Format: Hardback
$64.99

A gorgeous guide to foraging, pressing and using seaweeds for a wealth of home creative projects. Both aspirational...  Read More >>

Alexander von Humboldt: Multiperspective Approaches

Alexander von Humboldt: Multiperspective Approaches...

Author: Gregor C. Falk ,  Manfred R. Strecker
ISBN: 9783030940102
Format: Paperback
$475.17

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

Precambrian Geotectonics in the Himalaya: Sans Cenoxoic Hangover

Precambrian Geotectonics in the Himalaya: Sans Cenoxoic...

Author: B.K. Chakrabarti (Formerly Director, Geological Survey of India (GSI), India)
ISBN: 9780323917308
Format: Paperback
$448.80

Precambrian Geotectonics in the Himalaya provides a deep overview on general geology and tectonics of all the Precambrian...  Read More >>

Worlds in Shadow: Submerged Lands in Science, Memory and Myth

Worlds in Shadow: Submerged Lands in Science, Memory...

Author: Patrick Nunn
ISBN: 9781472983510
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Discover ancient civilization that have disappeared beneath the ocean's surface and explore how the science of submergence...  Read More >>

The Old Red Sandstone: or, New Walks in an Old Field, Volumes 1 and 2

The Old Red Sandstone: or, New Walks in an Old Field,...

Author: Hugh Miller ,  Doctor Dr Michael A. Taylor
ISBN: 9781910682258
Format: Paperback
$77.63

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

The Sloth Lemur’s Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present

The Sloth Lemur’s Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past...

Author: Alison Richard
ISBN: 9780008435981
Format: Paperback
$22.99

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

The Icy Planet: Saving Earth's Refrigerator

The Icy Planet: Saving Earth's Refrigerator

Author: Colin Summerhayes (Emeritus Associate, Scott Polar Research Institute, Emeritus Associate, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University)
ISBN: 9780197627983
Format: Hardback
$105.95

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

Barns of St Croix Valley: An Architect’s Sketchbook

Barns of St Croix Valley: An Architect’s Sketchbook...

Author: Jim Lammers
ISBN: 9781954081673
Format: Paperback
$44.99

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Stratigraphy: A Modern Synthesis

Stratigraphy: A Modern Synthesis

Author: Andrew D. Miall
ISBN: 9783030875381
Format: Paperback
$142.29

The updated textbook is intended to serve as an advanced and detailed treatment of the evolution of the subject...  Read More >>

Archaeology of Piedra Museo Locality: An Open Window to the Early Population of Patagonia

Archaeology of Piedra Museo Locality: An Open Window...

Author: Laura Miotti ,  Monica Salemme
ISBN: 9783030925055
Format: Paperback
$284.60

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Tectonic Evolution of the Moroccan High Atlas: A Paleomagnetic Perspective: Magnetic Techniques (Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility and Paleomagnetism) Applied to the Understanding of the Evolution of an Intra-Plate Mountain Chain

Tectonic Evolution of the Moroccan High Atlas: A Paleomagnetic...

Author: Pablo Calvín ,  Antonio M. Casas-Sainz
ISBN: 9783031166921
Format: Hardback
$413.97

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

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