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Geology Underfoot in Southern California
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /First published in 1993, this groundbreaking book is now fully revised and updated with the latest scientific information. Join a team of geolog...
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Ice Rivers: A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A passionate eyewitness account of the mysteries and looming demise of glaciers—and what their fate means for our shared futureThe ice sheets and...
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The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Every rock is a tangible trace of the earth’s past. The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that ...
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Windows into the Earth: The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Millions of years ago, the North American continent was dragged over the world's largest continental hotspot, a huge column of hot and molten roc...
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The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /"They deftly bring together findings from many disparate areas of science in a book that science buffs will find hard to put down." —Publishers W...
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Glaciers: The Politics of Ice
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Though not traditionally thought of as strategic natural resources, glaciers are a crucial part of our global ecosystem playing a fundamental rol...
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Roadside Geology of Maine
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this odd and spectacular north country, contorted rocks reveal the strain of colliding continents, the heat of molten intrusions, and the weig...
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The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /If you think that global warming means slightly hotter weather and a modest rise in sea levels that will persist only so long as fossil fuels hol...
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Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $44.99Original price $44.99 - Original price $44.99Original price $44.99Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /What is unique about Richard Norton's book is that it is both a field guide to observing meteors, and also a field guide to locating, preparing a...
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Roadside Geology of New Jersey
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /From the glacially scoured quartzite ridge that hosts the Appalachian Trail to the spectacular columnar basalt of Orange Mountain, New Jersey pac...
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The Practical Geologist: The Introductory Guide to the Basics of Geology and to Collecting and Identifying Rocks
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /From exploring the basic principles of geology to starting a rock and mineral collection, The Practical Geologist is the perfect introduction to ...
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Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /To many of us, the Earth's crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, stones are richly illustrated narratives, telling...
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The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton And The Discovery Of Earth's Antiquity
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /There are three men whose contributions helped free science from the straitjacket of theology. Two of the three-Nicolaus Copernicus and Charles D...
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Roadside Geology of Yellowstone Country
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /With more than 10,000 geysers, hot springs, fumaroles, and mud pots, as well as cubic mile upon cubic mile of once-incendiary rhyolite, the land...
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Rough-Hewn Land: A Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /“Unfold a map of North America,” Keith Heyer Meldahl writes, “and the first thing to grab your eye is the bold shift between the Great Plains and...
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The Glorious Geology of Iceland's Golden Circle
PaperbackOriginal price $37.99Original price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /This is the first book describing the glorious geology of Iceland’s Golden Circle and four additional excursions:(1) the beautiful valleys and mo...
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The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /How the mystery of the Bible's greatest story shaped geology: a MacArthur Fellow presents a surprising perspective on Noah's Flood. In Tibet, geo...
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Roadside Geology of Georgia
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Ride along with geologists Pamela Gore and Bill Witherspoon on this extraordinary tour of the Peach State s varied terrain. In 35 detailed and de...
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Roadside Geology of Northern and Central California
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /California s geology makes headlines when faults shift, volcanoes puff steam, and coastal bluffs fall into the sea. The latest edition of this po...
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Assembling California
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the Un...
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Water: A Natural History
PaperbackOriginal price $16.50 - Original price $16.50Original price $16.50$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /An environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of what needs to be done t...
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The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /No other book comes even close to proposing that there is a huge mass of life living within the earth, that it is sustained in its sunless and ai...
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Roadside Geology of Arizona
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The rise of mountains and the spread of deserts has marked the geologic history of Arizona. Landscapes that we see today are here because of land...
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The Earth: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Around 30 years ago, two things happened that were to revolutionize the understanding of our home planet. First, geologists realized that the con...
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