Geology Books

Gleanings from the Note-book of a Field Geologist

Sir Archibald Geikie

Those who have had experience of field-geology, know how vain it is to attempt to compress into a page or two the results of years, and that a few vague general directions are about the utmost that ca..

The Strange Adventures of a Pebble

Hallam Hawksworth

The relation of this book to the formal study of physiography or geology in the schools will be apparent. The classified and exhaustive treatment of the text-book, while so admirably adapted to organi..

Researches on the Visual Organs of the Trilobites

Gustaf Lindstrom

Before proceeding further I shall give a general representation of the shape of the hypostoma. This enigmatic part of the trilobite skeleton resembles as to its outline a heraldic shield being broad a..

Relics of Primeval Life

Sir J. William Dawson

In 1875 he endeavoured to sum up in a popular form what was then known, in a little volume named "The Dawn of Life," which has long been out of print; and in 1893 the matter was referred to in a chapt..

Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth

John Playfair

It is foreign from the present purpose to enter on any history of the systems that, since the rise of this branch of science, have been invented to explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom. It is ..

The Foot-prints of the Creator

Hugh Miller

The geological works of Hugh Miller have excited the greatest interest, not only among scientific men, but also among general readers. There is in them a freshness of conception, a power of argumentat..

Rocks and Their Origins

Grenville A. J. Cole

The description of rocks has fallen very much into the hands of lovers of analysis and classification, and attention has been diverted, even among geologists, from their fundamental importance as part..