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  • A Short History of Planet Earth

    Mountains, Mammals, Fire, and Ice

    by J. D. MacDougall ...
    Series series Wiley Popular Scienc
    "A splendid introduction to geology and paleontology for the lay reader. To compress Earth's history into a single, lucidly written volume is a major achievement." —Publishers Weekly, starred review"Few people have both the knowledge and the writing ability to capture such a long and varied history in a compelling manner. In A Short History of Planet Earth, J.D. Macdougal demonstrates that he is ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Continental Flood Basalts

    Edited by J. D. Macdougall ...
    Series Book 3 - Petrology and Structural Geology

    $143.09 USD

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  • Assembling California

    by John McPhee ...
    Series Book 4 - Annals of the Former World
    At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Rocks and Minerals of The World

    Geology for Kids - Minerology and Sedimentology

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Rocks & Minerals Books
    Those stones you see might be an important mineral that the Earth creates. This book will open your child’s minds to the importance of the rocks and minerals you can dig up. It is a very informative book that is complete with images and just the right amount of texts too. Go ahead and get a copy of this book today! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Petrographic Atlas of Ophiolite

    An example from the eastern India-Asia collision zone

    by Nilanjan Chatterjee, Fareeduddin, Naresh Chandra Ghose ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book is a thoughtful discussion with scientists studying convergent plate boundaries such as the well-known, active India-Eurasia collision zone. It provides a comprehensive collection of petrographic images of ophiolitic rocks exhumed from oceanic lithosphere and mantle at the India-Asia plate boundary. Ophiolite is exposed in the northwestern Himalayas, eastern Indian plate margin and ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Volcanoes & Earthquakes, What & Why? : 2nd Grade Science Series

    Second Grade Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Earthquake & Volcano Books
    Why do volcanoes and earthquakes happen? Is Earth throwing a tantrum? Let your child decode the answers for these on his/her own through this interactive educational book. Composed of pictures that allow for the understanding of geology and vulcanology, this is a great resource that would complement the heavy school textbooks. Grab a copy now! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Invertebrate Palaeontology

    Macrofossils

    by Sreepat Jain ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides practical morphological information, together with detailed illustrations and concise texts explaining each entry. The book details the morphological characters of each organism, providing fundamental information for palaeontologists and palaeobiologists alike. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction and goes on to describe the organism’s morphology in detail, followed by ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

  • Absolute Age Determination

    Physical and Chemical Dating Methods and Their Application

    by Mebus A. Geyh, Helmut Schleicher ...
    Translated by Clark Newcomb ...
    With the growing recognition during the last two centuries that the Earth has an immense age and processes over long periods of time have changed the morphology and composition of the Earth's crust, geologists have become increasingly interested in determination of absolute ages. A rela tive geochronology was established on the basis of the lithostratigraphic and biostratigraphic principles ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Identification of Feldspar and Its Varieties

    by Trudy Toohill ...
    Series Book 5 - Australian Gemstones Series
    This book contains a wealth of information on all aspects of the mineral feldspar, and its varieties. Designed for the beginner or experienced, it will greatly assist those wishing to find out more about how to correctly identify feldspar minerals. Each feldspar variety is shown, with information on the physical and optical properties. There is also details on the correct readings for feldspar and ... Read more

    $0.71 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Australia's Little Space Travellers

    The Flight Shaped Tektites of Australia

    by Don McColl ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides a showcase for the incredibly well-preserved flight-textured tektites of southern Australia, which are the world’s finest known examples. It provides an overview of their forms and flight features, which can be expected to appear, at least in part, on any objects falling from space. Some of these specimens are so perfectly shaped that it is hard to believe that they have been ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Techniques in Archaeological Geology

    by Erv Garrison ...
    Series series Natural Science in Archaeology
    The archaeological geology of the Quaternary or the geological epoch during which humankind evolved is a scientific endeavor with much to offer in the fields of archaeology and palaeoanthropology. Earth science techniques offer diverse ways of characterizing the elements of past landscapes and archaeological facies. This book is a survey of techniques used in archaeological geology for the study ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • New Perspectives on Mineral Nucleation and Growth

    From Solution Precursors to Solid Materials

    Edited by Denis Gebauer, Matthias Kellermeier, Liane G. Benning, Alexander E.S. Van Driessche ...
    In the last decade, numerous studies have demonstrated the existence of alternative pathways to nucleation and crystallisation that oppose the classical view. Such proposed scenarios include multistage reactions proceeding via various precursor species and/or intermediate phases. The aim of this book is to review and discuss these recent advances in our understanding of the early stages of ... Read more

    $170.09 USD