Geology
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National Geographic Pocket Guide to Trees and Shrubs of North America
$12.95 Read moreThis basic beginner’s field guide to the larger plants in North America is part of the growing National Geographic Pocket Guide series. Spot-on descriptive information and key facts about trees and sh… [more below]
- Series: National Geographic Pocket Guide
- Author: Crowder, Bland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 31 2015
- ISBN10: 1426214758
- Language: English
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Born of Ice and Fire: How Glaciers and Volcanoes (with a Pinch of Salt) Drove Animal Evolution
$28.00 Read moreAn exploration of how the Cryogenian Period, when our planet was covered in ice for millions of years, created today’s remarkable biodiversity
More than half a billion years ago, our world was comple- Author: Shields, Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 030024259X
- Language: English
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California Rocks!: A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Golden State
$16.00 Add to cartCalifornians live on the edge . . . of a tectonic plate, that is. In this geologically tenuous location, where a tsunami, earthquake, or volcanic eruption is just another hazard, the rocks and landfor… [more below]
- Author: Baylor, Katherine J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0878425659
- Language: English
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Stone by Stone: The Magnificent History in New England’s Stone Walls
$20.00 Add to cartThere once may have been 250,000 miles of stone walls in America’s Northeast, stretching farther than the distance to the moon. They took three billion man-hours to build. And even though most are cru
- Author: Thorson, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 287
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0802776876
- Language: English
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Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway: An Epoch Tale of a Scientist and an Artist on the Ultimate 5,000-Mile Paleo Road Trip
$30.00 Add to cart“A paleontological odyssey that manages to be informative, witty, educational—and enormous fun.” —Simon Winchester, author of The Map That Changed the World, Krakatoa, and A Crack in the Edge of the… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Kirk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 164160915X
- Language: English
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Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
$29.99 Read moreEarth is vibrantly alive and full of wisdom for those who learn to listen.
Earth has been reinventing itself for more than four billion years, keeping a record of its experiments in the form of rocks.- Author: Bjornerud, Marcia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1250875897
- Language: English
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Otherworldly Antarctica: Ice, Rock, and Wind at the Polar Extreme
$28.00 Read moreWith stunning original photographs, an Antarctic scientist and explorer takes us to one of the most sublime, remote, and pristine regions on the planet.
The interior of Antarctica is an utterly prist- Author: Stump, Edmund
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0226829901
- Language: English
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Extinctions: From Dinosaurs to You
$26.00 Read moreA compelling answer to an important question: Can past mass extinctions teach us how to avoid future planetary disaster?
On its face, the story of mass extinction on Earth is one of unavoidable disas- Author: Frankel, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 29 2024
- ISBN10: 022674101X
- Language: English
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Roadside Geology of South Dakota
$20.00 Read moreSouth Dakota fills the landscape with geologic diversity, from the glaciated rolling prairies in the east, across the Missouri River, and west to the rugged Badlands Wall and granitic domes of the Bla… [more below]
- Series: Roadside Geology
- Author: Gries, John Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 357
- Publish Date: June 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0878423389
- Language: English
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Ancient Landscapes of Western North America: A Geologic History with Paleogeographic Maps
$37.99 Add to cartAllow yourself to be taken back into deep geologic time when strange creatures roamed the Earth and Western North America looked completely unlike the modern landscape. Volcanic islands stretched from… [more below]
- Author: Blakey, Ronald C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: October 18 2017
- ISBN10: 3319596349
- Language: English
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The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
$23.99 Add to cartNew York Times best-selling journalist Jeff Goodell presents a “masterful, bracing” (David Wallace-Wells) examination of the impact that temperature rise will have on our lives and on our planet, offe
- Author: Goodell, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 031649755X
- Language: English
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Glacial Lake Missoula: And Its Humongous Flood
$15.00 Add to cartAs geologist J. Harlen Bretz walked the dry scabland channels of eastern Washington in the 1920s, it dawned on him that he was viewing a landscape sculpted by water. Lots of water. A flood of catastro… [more below]
- Author: Alt, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 199
- Publish Date: June 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0878424156
- Language: English
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California Catastrophes: The Natural Disaster History of the Golden State
$26.95 Add to cartThis comprehensive account of California’s numerous and perilous natural disasters explores how a unique combination of forces has affected Californians throughout the state’s history and carries a so… [more below]
- Author: Griggs, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0520402103
- Language: English
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Stone by Stone: The Magnificent History in New England’s Stone Walls
$20.00 Read moreThere once may have been 250,000 miles of stone walls in America’s Northeast, stretching farther than the distance to the moon. They took three billion man-hours to build. And even though most are cru
- Author: Thorson, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 287
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0802776876
- Language: English
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Earth Is Big: A Book of Comparisons
$24.00 Read more“Solid scientific browsing.” —Kirkus Reviews
Find out how unique Planet Earth really is in this eye-catching book of comparisons!
Earth is big! (compared to a frog)
Earth is small! (when it’s hiding in- Author: Tomecek, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1912920344
- Language: English
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Pop-Up Earth
$29.95 Read moreYou live on it, but how much do you really know about the planet Earth? In this incredible pop-up book, discover why the Earth is so special by learning about how it’s changed over time, how all livin
- Series: Pop-Up #1
- Author: Charbonnel, Olivier
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 20
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0500652570
- Language: English
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The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes
$19.95 Add to cartThis classic work was used by NASA in studying sand dunes on Mars and is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students. The first book to deal exclusively with the behavior of blown sand and rel… [more below]
- Series: Dover Earth Science
- Author: Bagnold, Ralph A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 265
- Publish Date: January 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0486439313
- Language: English
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Geology Book (Wonders of Creation Series) [With Pull-Out Poster]
$18.99 Add to cartRocks firmly anchored to the ground and rocks floating through space fascinate us. Jewelry, houses, and roads are just some of the ways we use what has been made from geologic processes to advance civ… [more below]
- Series: Wonders of Creation
- Author: Morris, John Dr
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: December 22 2000
- ISBN10: 0890512817
- Language: English
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Earth: The Definitive Visual Guide, New Edition
$50.00 Add to cartExplore and understand the natural and human wonders of our planet.
Now, in its third edition, this landmark encyclopedia celebrates our planet and explains the science underpinning the forces and pro- Series: DK Definitive Visual Encyclopedias
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0744069831
- Language: English
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The Story of the Plate Tectonics Revolution: A Geology Coloring Book
$11.99 Add to cartIn 1915, a German meteorologist named Alfred Wegener came up with an idea. What if, he proposed, the continents moved around over the face of Earth? When Wegener published his thoughts, he was subject
- Author: Terry, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: August 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0578946882
- Language: English
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