geology

Book Reviews

• J. Kelly Beatty, et al.: The New Solar System*
  - a comprehensive overview aimed at educated non-specialists
• Donald E. Canfield: Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History
  - deep time geobiochemistry
• Richard Corfield: Lives of the Planets
  A Natural History of the Solar System
• Vincent Courtillot: Evolutionary Catastrophes
  The Science of Mass Extinctions
• Richard A. Davis Jr: The Evolving Coast
  - an overview of coastal forms and processes
• Walter L Friedrich: Fire in the Sea: The Santorini Volcano
  Natural History and the Legend of Atlantis
• Stephen Jay Gould: Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle
  Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
• David Johnson: The Geology of Australia*
  - an excellent introduction for the lay reader
• Simon Lamb: Devil in the Mountain
  A Search for the Origin of the Andes
• Lynn Margulis, et al.: Environmental Evolution
  Effects of the Origin and Evolution of Life on Planet Earth
• John McPhee: Annals of the Former World**
  - travels across the United States with geologists
• H.W. Menard: Islands*
  - and atolls, banks, and guyots
• David R. Montgomery: Dirt
  The Erosion of Civilizations
• Ronald L. Numbers: The Creationists*
  The Evolution of Scientific Creationism
• André Robert: River Processes
  An Introduction to Fluvial Dynamics
• Eelco J. Rohling: The Oceans: A Deep History
  - ocean chemistry in its broadest context
• Mike Searle: Colliding Continents
  A Geological Exploration of the Himalaya, Karakoram, and Tibet
• Natalie Starkey: Fire and Ice
  The Volcanoes of the Solar System
• Mary E. White: After the Greening**
  - a geological and botanical history of Australia

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