Historical geology books

634 books were found.

Kimberlites: Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrology

Kimberlites: Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrology...

Author: Roger H. Mitchell
ISBN: 9781489905703
Format: Paperback
$659.97

This is a book about the petrology of kimberlites. Kimberlites are consequently of interest to a diverse group of...  Read More >>

A Geologist Looks at Manhattan: A Guide to 100 Fascinating Sites

A Geologist Looks at Manhattan: A Guide to 100 Fascinating...

Author: Sidney Horenstein
ISBN: 9781581571868
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Manhattan is home to millions of people and yet it harbors an extraordinary array of wondrous places that have remained...  Read More >>

Reef-Platform  Coral  Boulders: Evidence for High-Energy Marine Inundation Events on Tropical Coastlines

Reef-Platform Coral Boulders: Evidence for High-Energy...

Author: James P Terry ,  A Y Annie Lau
ISBN: 9789814451321
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This book will illuminate how various characteristics of datable carbonate blocks torn up from coral reefs and deposited...  Read More >>

Quantifying the Evolution of Early Life: Numerical Approaches to the Evaluation of Fossils and Ancient Ecosystems

Quantifying the Evolution of Early Life: Numerical Approaches...

Author: Marc Laflamme ,  James D. Schiffbauer
ISBN: 9789400735477
Format: Paperback
$448.77

This volume provides a detailed description of a wide range of numerical, statistical or modeling techniques and...  Read More >>

Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science

Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science

Author: Scott Elias (University of Colorado, Westminster, Colorado, USA) ,  Cary Mock
ISBN: 9780444536433
Format: Mixed media product
$3467.25

Research in the Quaternary sciences has advanced greatly over the years, especially since topics like global climate...  Read More >>

Revolutions that Made the Earth

Revolutions that Made the Earth

Author: Tim Lenton (University of Exeter, UK) ,  Andrew Watson (University of East Anglia, UK)
ISBN: 9780199673469
Format: Paperback
$80.95

The Earth that sustains us today was born out of a few remarkable revolutions, started by biological innovations...  Read More >>

Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages

Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages...

Author: Doug Macdougall ,  Douglas Macdougall
ISBN: 9780520275928
Format: Paperback
$47.95

Explores the causes and effects of ice ages that have gripped our planet throughout its history, from earliest known...  Read More >>

Quantitative Geology of Late Jurassic Epicontinental Sediments in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland

Quantitative Geology of Late Jurassic Epicontinental...

Author: Reinhart A. Gygi
ISBN: 9783034801355
Format: Hardback
$237.47

This book summarizes decades of research by the author on the sedimentary geology in the epicontinental (shelf)...  Read More >>

Devonian Paleoenvironments of Ohio

Devonian Paleoenvironments of Ohio

Author: Rituparna Bose
ISBN: 9783642348532
Format: Paperback
$145.17

She identified Devonian brachiopods to the genus level based on their morphology, and diagnosed paleoecological...  Read More >>

Mallorca: The Making of the Landscape

Mallorca: The Making of the Landscape

Author: Richard Buswell
ISBN: 9781780460109
Format: Hardback
$90.56

Professor Buswell describes the elements that together form Mallorca's contemporary landscape. Well-illustrated...  Read More >>

Prevedere l'imprevedibile: La tumultuosa scienza della previsione dei terremoti

Prevedere l'imprevedibile: La tumultuosa scienza della...

Author: Susan Elizabeth Hough ,  Lucia Margheriti
ISBN: 9788847026421
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Nonostante i rapidi progressi della scienza che studia I terremoti, per i sismologi non è ancora possibile prevederli....  Read More >>

Basement Tectonics 13: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Confenrence on Basement Tectonics, held in Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A., June 1997

Basement Tectonics 13: Proceedings of the Thirteenth...

Author: A. Krishna Sinha
ISBN: 9789401060158
Format: Paperback
$448.77

The conference participants were able to attend two separate field trips: (I) a pre-conference trip guided by Professor...  Read More >>

Die Geologie des Erzgebirges

Die Geologie des Erzgebirges

Author: Ulrich Sebastian
ISBN: 9783827429766
Format: Hardback
$158.37

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Basement Tectonics 12: Central North America and Other Regions

Basement Tectonics 12: Central North America and Other...

Author: John P. Hogan ,  M. Charles Gilbert
ISBN: 9789401061414
Format: Paperback
$448.77

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Basement Tectonics held in Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A., May...  Read More >>

Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation: Volume 3: Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project

Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation: Volume 3:...

Author: Victor Melezhik ,  Anthony R. Prave
ISBN: 9783642296697
Format: Hardback
$580.77

This is the third of three volumes that survey the Palaeoproterozoic Eon with a focus on Fennoscandian Shield geology,...  Read More >>

Southern Hemisphere Palaeobiogeography of Triassic-Jurassic Marine Bivalves

Southern Hemisphere Palaeobiogeography of Triassic-Jurassic...

Author: Susana E. Damborenea ,  Javier Echevarría
ISBN: 9789400750975
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Finally, some of the results obtained from the analysis of the distribution of past bivalve biotas were even used...  Read More >>

The Geologic Time Scale 2012

The Geologic Time Scale 2012

Author: Felix M. Gradstein (University of Oslo, Norway; Chronostratigraphy, paleontology) ,  J.G. Ogg (Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA)
ISBN: 9780444594259
Format: Paperback
$181.10

Suitable for all geoscientists, including researchers, students, and petroleum and mining professionals, this title...  Read More >>

The Geology and Tectonic Settings of China's Mineral Deposits

The Geology and Tectonic Settings of China's Mineral...

Author: Franco Pirajno
ISBN: 9789400744431
Format: Hardback
$448.77

The first English-language reference in the field, this book surveys important mineral deposits of China in the...  Read More >>

Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation: Volume 1: The Palaeoproterozoic of Fennoscandia as Context for the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project

Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation: Volume 1:...

Author: Victor Melezhik ,  Anthony R. Prave
ISBN: 9783642296819
Format: Hardback
$448.77

Earth’s present-day environments are the outcome of a 4.5 billion year period of evolution reflecting the interaction...  Read More >>

Tree Rings and Natural Hazards: A State-of-Art

Tree Rings and Natural Hazards: A State-of-Art

Author: Markus Stoffel ,  Michelle Bollschweiler
ISBN: 9789400732179
Format: Paperback
$580.77

Dendrogeomorphology Beginnings and Futures: A Personal Reminiscence My early forays into dendrogeomorphology occurred...  Read More >>

The Continental Drift Controversy: Volume 4, Evolution into Plate Tectonics

The Continental Drift Controversy: Volume 4, Evolution...

Author: Henry R. Frankel (University of Missouri, Kansas City)
ISBN: 9781139095938
Format: Undefined
$435.60

This fourth volume of The Continental Drift Controversy explains the discoveries in the mid 1960s which led to the...  Read More >>

Orogenesis: The Making of Mountains

Orogenesis: The Making of Mountains

Author: Michael R. W. Johnson (Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh) ,  Simon L. Harley (University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781139023924
Format: Undefined
$594.00

Providing a valuable introduction to the processes that form mountain belts, this book summarises research in this...  Read More >>

Structural Geology: An Introduction to Geometrical Techniques

Structural Geology: An Introduction to Geometrical Techniques...

Author: Donal M. Ragan (Arizona State University)
ISBN: 9780511816109
Format: Undefined
$594.00

This volume, a combination of undergraduate text and lab book, provides students with a step-by-step guide to solving...  Read More >>

Rock Fractures in Geological Processes

Rock Fractures in Geological Processes

Author: Agust Gudmundsson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
ISBN: 9780511975684
Format: Undefined
$594.00

This book investigates fracture processes and fluid transport in the crust. Building from basic concepts, and illustrated...  Read More >>

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