Geology

Geology is the science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change. Geology can also refer generally to the study of the solid features of any celestial body (such as the geology of the Moon or Mars).

A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Stalactite & Stalagmite
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
Strata: Stories from Deep Time
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future
When You Find the Right Rock
California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid
Scratching the Surface
The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
The Secret History of Sharks: The Rise of the Ocean's Most Fearsome Predators
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
Annals of the Former World
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)
Earth: An Intimate History (Vintage)
The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Crack in the Edge of the World
The Ends of the World
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3)
Assembling California (Annals of the Former World, 4)
Principles of Geology
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Underland: A Deep Time Journey

John McPhee
“ The Himalayas are the crowning achievement of the Indo-Australian plate. India in the Oligocene crashed head on into Tibet, hit so hard that it not only folded and buckled the plate boundaries but also plowed into the newly created Tibetan plateau and drove the Himalayas five and a half miles into the sky. The mountains are in some trouble. India has not stopped pushing them, and they are still going up. Their height and volume are already so great they are beginning to melt in their own self-ge ...more ”
― John McPhee, Annals of the Former World

George Monbiot
“ walking in the Cambrian Desert, it sometimes seems impossible to imagine trees returning there, the emptiness stands as an incontestable fact, as if it were a matter of geology, not ecology ”
― George Monbiot, Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life

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