Historical geology books

This volume is an integrated overview and synthesis of available data relating to the Quaternary evolution of the...  Read More >>

Menard begins with the leading hypotheses (such as that the earth expands) and the supporting evidence for each....  Read More >>

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Provides a thorough understanding of the Cenozoic Niger Delta and the evolution of its deeper offshore belts, where...  Read More >>

Orogenesis, the process of mountain building, occurs when two tectonic plates collide - either forcing material...  Read More >>

Examines the ways in which Aboriginal people interacted with their environment in the past at Fowlers Gap Station....  Read More >>

Spinster Mary Anning, uneducated and poor, was of the wrong sex, wrong class and wrong religion, but fate decreed...  Read More >>

Written for a wide audience of earth scientists and climatologists, The Holocene: An Environmental History provides...  Read More >>

In this Very Short Introduction Jamie Woodward examines the environmental shifts that took place during the Great...  Read More >>

An important overview of Quaternary climates including detailed Pleistocene and Holocene sea-level changes, for...  Read More >>

An important overview of Quaternary climates including detailed Pleistocene and Holocene sea-level changes, for...  Read More >>

Everyone likes maps and maps are always used to illustrate the many books on the Antarctic. Here the focus is reversed...  Read More >>

This book presents an integrated approach to the study of the evolution of the Archean lithosphere, biosphere and...  Read More >>

Focusing on Neoarchean mantle plumes and Paleoproterozoic plate tectonics, this book combines the results from modern...  Read More >>

Volume 32 (2013) of the internationally recognized and acclaimed yearbook series ‘Palaeoecology of Africa’ publishes...  Read More >>

The 2010 tsunamis generated in Haiti, Chile, and Indonesia caused various damage on the coasts. They report the...  Read More >>

These sites were selected by the Geological Conservation Review and are accordingly designated 'GCR' sites. Neither...  Read More >>

This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium...  Read More >>

This book is intended to complement the author's 1996 book ""The geology of fluvial deposits"", not to replace it....  Read More >>

Earth's climate has undergone dramatic changes over the geologic timescale. At one extreme, Earth has been glaciated...  Read More >>

Earth's climate has undergone dramatic changes over the geologic timescale. At one extreme, Earth has been glaciated...  Read More >>

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An explanation of the geological processes that formed Florida.  Read More >>

In Discovering the Ice Ages Tobias Kruger explores the discovery of the Ice Ages over the course of the 19th century,...  Read More >>

The landscape of southwestern Wyoming around the ghost town of Fossil is beautiful but harsh. But during the early...  Read More >>