Historical geology books

Illustrated with 200 barn sketches, diagrams, and maps, this book takes you on a journey through the St Croix River...  Read More >>

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

The depositional zones contain archaeological remains that are interpreted as hunting events corresponding to two...  Read More >>

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

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This book is the second volume of an edited work aiming to help novice geologists to explore terrains independently....  Read More >>

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

A GUIDE TO AUSTRALIAN ROCKS, FOSSILS AND LANDSCAPES is a collection of stand-alone explanations of more than 200...  Read More >>

A guided tour through 500 million years of history – and a spectacular introduction to the natural wonders of Aotearoa...  Read More >>

This is the story of a journey. Actually, it’s a story of many journeys, of paths woven through the fabric of Earth’s...  Read More >>

For everyone curious about their landscape, this book reveals the full history of Cumbria through tales of 60 special...  Read More >>

Tuzo is the never-before-told story of one of Canada's most influential scientists and the discovery of plate tectonics,...  Read More >>

This is the first complete biography of James Hutton, the father of modern geology, who was also a man of immensely...  Read More >>

This work is a facsimile reprint of Hugh Miller's 1857 notes recording his rambles around Scotland in the mid 1840s....  Read More >>

"Rifted margins mark the transition between continents and oceans, which are the two first-order types of land masses...  Read More >>

"Rifted margins mark the transition between continents and oceans, which are the two first-order types of land masses...  Read More >>

Nothing new from the Ice Age? The sequence of the individual ice advances, the direction of ice movement and the...  Read More >>

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

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

Many people appreciate the stunning vistas of the Great Basin desert; understanding the region's geological past...  Read More >>

'A beguiling mix of history, geology, folklore and memoir that captivated me from the first page.' Lara Maiklem,...  Read More >>

A copiously illustrated and fascinating geological story, from the birth of Essex 500 million years ago near the...  Read More >>

The south of Scotland has a long and turbulent geological past. Perhaps most notably, it marks the place where,...  Read More >>

The Small Isles comprise the Inner Hebridean islands of Rum, Eigg, Canna and Muck. The landscapes of these beautiful,...  Read More >>

The story of three 19th-century geologists whose fraternal rivalry ended up rewriting the history of our planet....  Read More >>