Rocks and Ridges: 15 Classic Books in Geology
Classic Writings on Deep Time, Strata, Fossils, Glaciers, and the Reading of Earth's HistoryBy William Harmon Norton, William J. Miller, Sir John William Dawson, Charles Sir Lyell, William Herbert Hobbs, Thomas McKenny Hughes, Frederic Brewster Loomis, Edwin Sharpe Grew, Stanley William Lohman, W. D. Keller, John Mastin, Roselle M. Girard, John Chronic, Halka Chronic, Howard A. Meyerhoff, George W. Bain, John C. Reed, J. D. Love
Length148h 13m
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Rocks and Ridges: 15 Classic Books in Geology assembles a capacious archive of geological writing in which stone, landform, and deep time become subjects of both scientific argument and narrative wonder. Across surveys, field-based exposition, historical synthesis, and popular scientific prose, the volume traces how ridges, strata, fossils, and erosional landscapes have been read as records of planetary change. Especially compelling are its treatments of mountain formation and the interpretive drama of the field. The contributors represent several generations of geologists, naturalists, teachers, and scientific communicators, from nineteenth-century figures associated with the consolidation of modern geology to later writers attentive to regional investigation and public explanation. Their collective work participates in traditions of uniformitarian reasoning, stratigraphic observation, paleontological evidence, and geomorphological study, while registering geology's changing institutions and vocabularies. Read together, these voices reveal that geology is not merely a body of facts but a disciplined practice of inference, comparison, and imagination. Recommended for students of earth science, environmental humanities, and the history of knowledge, this collection offers an unusual opportunity to encounter multiple modes of geological thinking within one volume. Its breadth encourages readers to compare methods, prose styles, and scales of inquiry, from local outcrop to global history. Rocks and Ridges thus serves both as an educational resource and as a stimulating conversation about how humans learn to read the Earth.
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GenreScience and Nature, Literary Classics
Length148 hrs 13 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Exploring Earth's Secrets: 71 Geology Books
26OR,
2The Elements of Geology
27SIR CHARLES LYELL, M.A. F.R.S.
3CHAPTER II
28ANALYSIS OF THE CONTENTS
4CHAPTER III
29PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY.
5CHAPTER IV
30CHAPTER I
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6CHAPTER V
31CHAPTER II
7CHAPTER VI
32CHAPTER III
8CHAPTER VII
33CHAPTER IV
9CHAPTER VIII
34CHAPTER V
10CHAPTER IX
35CHAPTER VI
11CHAPTER X
36CHAPTER VII
12CHAPTER XI
37CHAPTER VIII
13CHAPTER XII
38CHAPTER IX
14CHAPTER XIII
39CHAPTER X
15CHAPTER XIV
40CHAPTER XI
16CHAPTER XV
41CHAPTER XII
17CHAPTER XVI
42CHAPTER XIII
18CHAPTER XVII
43BOOK II.
19CHAPTER XVIII
44CHAPTER XIV
20CHAPTER XIX
45CHAPTER XV
21CHAPTER XX
46CHAPTER XVI
22CHAPTER XXI
47CHAPTER XVII
23CHAPTER XXII
48CHAPTER XVIII
24Principles of Geology
49CHAPTER XIX
25PRINCIPLES
50CHAPTER XX
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