Historical geology books

Once, the ocean of Tethys stretched across the world. It vanished just before Man appeared on Earth. Dorrik Stow...  Read More >>

For any science or social science course in need of a basic understanding of IPCC reports. Periodic reports from...  Read More >>

This first volume of The Continental Drift Controversy covers the period in the early 1900s when Wegener first identified...  Read More >>

The main objects under consideration are marine basins of the West Subarctic (Iceland, Norwegian, and Greenland...  Read More >>

South America is a unique place where a number of past climate archives are ava- able from tropical to high latitude...  Read More >>

The volume starts with a review on late Quaternary records form the Carpathian region, followed by new results on...  Read More >>

The author shows that the resulting tsunami would have the characteristics described by ancient writers, and uses...  Read More >>

This comprehensive bibliography of publications relating to Mount Vesuvius first appeared in 1897. As well as scientific...  Read More >>

Year by year the Earth sciences grow more diverse, with an inevitable increase in the degree to which rampant specialization...  Read More >>

Great Gable is considered to be somewhat special. This is a personal view of one Lake District mountain and its...  Read More >>

Geology of the Jurassic Coast: The Isle of Purbeck is an entirely new, visually stunning, and informative reference...  Read More >>

Since the early decades of the last century, some eminent European scientists have contributed to the creation of...  Read More >>

This volume includes a general description of the Portuguese Cenozoic basins in the Iberian tectonic context. Correlations...  Read More >>

""The Tectonics of China: Data, Maps and Evolution"" presents the regional geological and petroleum surveys of China,...  Read More >>

Leopold von Buch (1774–1853) was a German scientist who travelled to Scandinavia in 1806–1808 to research the region's...  Read More >>

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The African continent preserves a long geological record that covers almost 75% of Earth's history. The Pan-African...  Read More >>

Arc-continent collision has been one of the important tectonic processes in the formation of mountain belts throughout...  Read More >>

John Murray (1778–1820) was a public lecturer and prolific writer on chemistry and geology. This popular volume,...  Read More >>

The year before this work of 1878 was published, the author, G. F. Rodwell (1843–1905) had climbed Mount Etna and...  Read More >>

A brief but distinctive account, first published in 1835, of a winter expedition to a then little-visited volcanic...  Read More >>

An overview of the Quaternary glaciations over the world, not only with regard to stratigraphy but also with regard...  Read More >>

Maravigna's account of the major eruption of Mount Etna from May to August 1819 was commissioned by his colleagues...  Read More >>

Volcanic Islands (1844) contains detailed geological descriptions of locations visited during the Beagle's voyage...  Read More >>

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