Geology category: 1681 books
The Rock From Mars
A True Detective Story on Two Planets
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
In this riveting book, acclaimed journalist Kathy Sawyer reveals the deepest mysteries of space and some of the most disturbing truths on Earth. The Rock from Mars is the story of how two planets and the spheres of politics and science all collided at the end of the twentieth century.
It began sixteen...
Underground
A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
A panoramic investigation of the subterranean landscape, from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and ancient underground cities—an exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the worlds beneath our feet
When Will Hunt was sixteen years old,...
Precious Objects
A Story of Diamonds, Family, and a Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
In the middle of New York City lies a neighborhood where all secrets are valuable, all assets are liquid, and all deals are sealed with a blessing rather than a contract. Welcome to the diamond district. Ninety percent of all diamonds that enter America pass through these few blocks, but the inner...
Rural Change in Australia
Population, Economy, Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
New twenty-first century economic, social and environmental changes have challenged and reshaped rural Australia. They range from ageing populations, youth out-migration, immigration policies (that seek to place skilled migrants in rural Australia), tree changers, agricultural restructuring and new...
by Clyde H. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2001
Carbonate Reservoirs: Porosity, Evolution and Diagenesis in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework
by Junzo Kasahara, Yoko Hasada
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Time Lapse Approach to Monitoring Oil, Gas, and CO2 Storage by Seismic Methods delivers a new technology to geoscientists, well logging experts, and reservoir engineers, giving them a new basis on which to influence decisions on oil and gas reservoir management.
Named ACROSS (Accurately Controlled...
Coal Bed Methane
From Prospect to Pipeline
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
Coal Bed Methane: From Prospect to Pipeline is the proceedings of the 25th anniversary of the North American Coal Bed Methane Forum. It provides the latest advancements in the production of coal bed methane covering a variety of topics, from exploration to gas processing, for commercial utilization....
Big Coal
The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Long dismissed as a relic of a bygone era, coal is back -- with a vengeance. Coal is one of the nation's biggest and most influential industries -- Big Coal provides more than half the electricity consumed by Americans today -- and its dominance is growing, driven by rising oil prices and calls for...
This is Planet Earth
Your ultimate guide to the world we call home
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
The Earth as you've never seen it before.
The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is.
Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the big bang and long-dead stars, at first it was nothing...
Here on Earth
A Natural History of the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
From the internationally acclaimed scientist, explorer, and conservationist comes an awe-inspiring account of earth’s evolution.
Beginning at the moment of creation with the Big Bang, Here on Earth explores the evolution of Earth from a galactic cloud of dust and gas to a planet with a metallic...
GigaFlood
The Largest of the Lake Missoula Floods In Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington Revised Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Covering a brief history of Glacial Lake Missoula and the factors leading to its creation and dam-bursting flood, GigaFlood follows the path of the largest of the Lake Missoula Floods, as its 540 cubic miles of water, 40 cubic miles of ice, 50 cubic miles of rock, sediment and debris tore down the...
by Glenn W. Worthington
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
The author teaches the three, main methods for finding diamonds in Arkansas. He also gives examples of people who have found success using these methods. Men, women, children, and the elderly can use these methods to find valuable diamonds at Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park which is open to...
Bretz's Flood
The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The land between Idaho and the Cascade Mountains is characterized by gullies, coulees, and deserts--in geologic terms, it is a wholly unique place on the earth. Legendary geologist J Harlen Bretz, starting in the 1920s, was the first to explore the area. Bretz, a former science teacher at Franklin...
by Rob Wesson
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
An acclaimed geologist leads the reader on an adventure through the landscape that absorbed and inspired Charles Darwin.
Everybody knows—or thinks they know—Charles Darwin, the father of evolution and the man who altered the way we view our place in the world. But what most people do not...