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Popular Geology; A Short Bibliography
Allegre, Claude J., 1992, From stone to star; A view of modern geology: Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press [550 AL52D:E: Geology]
Alt, David, 2001, Glacial Lake Missoula and its humongous floods: Missoula, MT, Mountain Press Publishing Company [551.79209795 Al791g: Geology]
Alvarez, Walter, 1997, T. Rex and the crater of doom: Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press [576.84 AL86T: Geology]
Andrews, Sarah, 1994, Tensleep: Otto Penzler Books, 280 p. A mystery, written by a professional geologist, centering on the petroleum industry. Andrews has written several other mysteries related to forensic geology (Mother Nature, 1998; An Eye for Gold, 2001; Faultline, 2002; and others]
Bjornerud, Marcia, 2005, Reading The Rocks: The Autobiography Of The Earth: Boulder, CO, Westview Press (Basic Books), 237 p.
Bolles, Edmund Blair, 1999, The ice finders; How a poet, a professor, and a politician discovered the Ice Age: Washington, DC, Counterpoint, 257 p.
Bruce, Victoria, 2001, No apparent danger; The true story of volcanic disaster at Galeras and Nevado Del Ruiz: New York, HarperCollins, 23 p. [363.3495 B83n: Geology]
Cutler, Alan, 2003, The seashell on the mountaintop: Dutton, 228 p. [550.9032 C973s Geology]
Darrah, William C., 1951, Powell of the Colorado: Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 426 p. [B.P871 D: Geology, Main Stacks 2 copies]
Deffeyes, Kenneth S., 2001, Hubbert's Peak; The impending World oil shortage: Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 208 p. [ 333.823211 D361h: Geology]
Dobbs, David, 2005, Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of
Coral: Pantheon, 320 p.
Duffield, Wendell A., 2003, Chasing lava; A geologist's adventures at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory: Missoula, Mountain Press Publishing Company, 171 p. [551.21099691 D873c Geology]
Fillmore, Robert, 2000, The geology of the parks, monuments, and wildlands of southern Utah: Salt Lake City, UT, University of Utah Press, 268 p. [557.925 F485ga: Geology]
Fortey, Richard Fortey, 2005, Earth: An Intimate History: Vintage, 448 p.
Fortney, Richard, 2000, Trilobite; Eyewitness to Evolution: New York, Alfred Knopf, 284 p. [565.39 F776t: Geology]
Foster, Mike, 1994, Strange genius; Life of Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden: Niwot, CO, Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 440 p. [557.3092 H324F: Geology]
Frankel, Charles, 1999, The End of the dinosaurs; Chicxulub Crater and mass extinctions: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 233 p. [551.397 F851e: Geology]
Friedrich, Walter L., 2000, Fire in the sea; The Santorini Volcano; Natural history and the legend of Atlantis: New York, Cambridge University Press, 258 p. [Q. 551.21 F914f: Geology]
Geology Underfoot series: Missoula, MT, Mountain Press. Available for several areas.
Gould, Stephen J., ed., 1993, The book of life: London, Ebury Hutchinson, 256 p. [Q.575 B6442 Geology, Biology]
Gould, Stephen J., 1989, Wonderful life; The Burgess Shale and the nature of history: New York, W.W Norton, 347 p. [560.9 G73W Geology, Biology, Undergrad]
Gould, Stephen J., 1987, Time's arrow, time's cycle; Myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time: Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 222 p. [551.70109 G736T Undergrad. 3 copies]
Hallam, Tony, 2004, Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions: Oxford; New York, Oxford University Press, 274 p.
Harris, Stephen L., 1990, Agents of Chaos; Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Other Natural Disasters: Missoula, MT, Mountain Press Publishing Company, 260 p. [551.20978 H243A: Undergrad]
Herbert, Sandra, 2005, Charles Darwin, Geologist: Cornell University Press, 485 p.
Krajick, Kevin, 2001, Barren Lands; An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic: New York, Times Books, 442 p. [338.47622382 K857b: Undergrad]
Lawrence, David M., 2002, Upheaval from the abyss; Ocean floor mapping and the earth science revolution: New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 284 p. [551.46084 L435u: Geology]
Lewis, C., 2002, The dating game; One man's search for the age of the earth: New York, Cambridge University Press, 253 p. [551.701 L585d: Geology]
Macdougall, J.D., 1996, A short history of the planet Earth; Mountains, mammals, fire, and ice: New York, John Wiley & Sons, 266 p. [551.7 M148S: Undergrad (3 copies), Unihigh]
Macdougall, J.D., 2004, Frozen earth: The once and future story of ice ages: Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 256 p.
Mayor, Adrienne, 2000, The first fossil hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman times: Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 361 p. [ 560.938 M454f: Main, Undergrad]
McPhee, John A., 1998, Annals of the former world: New York, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux [557.3 M244A: Geology]
McPhee, John A., 1997, The Gravel Page, in Irons in the Fire: New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux [081 M241I: Main Stacks, 2 copies]
McPhee, John A., 1993, Assembling California: New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux [557.94 M241A: Geology] Also a copy at Union Browsing Stacks.
McPhee, John A., 1989, The control of nature: New York, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux [304.2 M241C: Undergrad Stacks]
McPhee, John A., 1988, Outcroppings: Salt Lake City, Utah, Peregrine Books (Excerps from other books such as Basin and Range & Rising from the Plain) [Q917.8 M2410: Undergrad Stacks]
McPhee, John A., 1986, Rising from the plain: New York, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux [557.8 M241R: Geology]
McPhee, John A., 1983, In suspect terrain: New York, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux [550 M241I: Geology, Main Stacks, Undergrad Stacks]
McPhee, John A., 1980, Basin and Range: New York, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux [557.9 M241B: Geology, Undergrad Stacks]
Lovelock, James E., 1988, The ages of Gaia; A biography of our living earth: New York, Norton [575.01 L944A: Undergrad Stacks]
Lovelock, James E., 1979, Gaia, a new look at life on earth: New York, Oxford University Press [574 L94G: Biology, Grainger]
Macdougall, Doug, Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages.
Powell, James Lawrence, 2005, Grand Canyon: Solving Earth's Grandest Puzzle: Pi Press, 320 p.
Price, Robert, 1989, Scotland's golf courses: Aberdeen, Scotland, Aberdeen University Press, 235 p. (also new edition; 2002) [City Planning 796.352068411] Note: Includes descriptions of the geology of each of the courses.
Rea, Tom, 2001, Bone Wars; The excavation and celebrity of Andrew Carnegie's dinosaur: Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh Press, 276 p. [560.9730904 R22b: Geology]
Repcheck, Jack, 2003, The man who found time; James Hutton and the discovery of the Earth's antiquity: Cambridge, MA, Perseus Publishing, 247 p. [550.92 H97r]
Roadside Geology series: Missoula, MT, Mountain Press Available for many states.
Robinson, Kim Stanley (novels):
Mars Trilogy
Red Mars
Mass Market Paperback: 592 pages
Publisher: Spectra (October 1, 1993)
ISBN: 0553560735
Green Mars
Mass Market Paperback: 640 pages
Publisher: Spectra (May 1, 1995)
ISBN: 0553572393
Blue Mars
Mass Market Paperback: 784 pages
Publisher: Spectra (June 2, 1997)
ISBN: 0553573357
Global Climate Change Series:
Forty Signs of Rain (Hardcover)
368 pages
Publisher: Spectra (June 1, 2004)
ISBN: 0553803115
Fifty Degrees Below (Hardcover)
416 pages
Publisher: Bantam (October 25, 2005)
ISBN: 0553803123
Antarctica
Mass Market Paperback: 672 pages
Publisher: Bantam; Reissue edition (July 6, 1999)
ISBN: 0553574027
Rogers, Katherine L., 1991, The Sternberg fossil hunters; A dinosaur dynasty: Missoula, MT, Mountain Press, 288 p. [560.97 R632S: Geology] (Reviewers note minor errors, but still... an interesting book worth reading)
Rudwick, Martin J. S., 2005, Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the
Age of Revolution: University Of Chicago Press, 840 p.
Schneiderman, Jill S., ed., 2000, The earth around us; Maintaining a livable planet: New York, W.H. Freeman, 455 p. [333.7 Sch58e: Geology, Maps & Geography]
Scholz, Christopher, 1997, Field work: A geologist's memoir of the Kalahari: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press [556.883 SCH64F: Geology]
Shelton, John S., 1966, Geology Illustrated: San Francisco, W.H. Freeman, 434 p. [550 SH4G: Geology, Main Stacks, Undergrad] (An introductory geology textbook; inspired at least one geologist to enter the profession)
Stegner, Wallace E., 1954, Beyond the hundredth meridian; John Wesley Powell and the second opening of the West: Boston, Hougthon Mifflin Company, 438 p. [B. P871s: Geology, Main Stacks, Undergrad]
Williams, Stanley, 2001, Surviving Galeras: Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 270 p. [551.21092 W67w: Illini Union Browsing]
Winchester, Simon, 2001, The map that changed the world: William Smith and the birth of modern geology: New York, HarperCollins [550.92 SM68W: Undergrad Stacks, 2 more on order] Winchester, Simon, 2005, A Crack in the Edge of the World : America and the Great California
Earthquake of 1906: New York, HarperCollins, 462 p.
Worser, Donald, 2001, A river running west: The life of John Wesley Powell: New York, Oxford University Press, 673 p. [B. P871w: Geology]
Wyckoff, Jerome, 1999, Reading the Earth, landforms in the making: Mahwah, NJ, Adastra West, 352 p. [551.41 W971r: Geology]
Inspired by Steve Marshak, UIUC Dept. of Geology
With thanks to Allan Ashworth, Bernhardt Saini-Eidukat, and Donald Schwert, NDSU Dept. of Geosciences; Steve Marshak and Ralph Langenheim, UIUC Dept. of Geology; and Doug Strickland, Wolverine Gas and Oil Corp.