- The Behavior of the Earth
- Claude Allègre
- Well over a century after Darwin gave biology its unifying theory of evolution, the earth sciences experienced a similar revolution and the theory of plate tectonics took hold. In The Behavior of the Earth, world-renowned earth scientist Claude Allègre sets forth the exciting events in this contemporary revolution from its first stirrings in the nineteenth-century and Alfred Wegener's original model of continental drift (1912) through the development of its full potential in modern plate-tectonic theory.
- Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1990
- Dinosaurs, Spitfires, and Sea Dragons
- Christopher McGowan
- McGowan sets out to solve some of the enduring mysteries about dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles. He makes fascinating comparisons between living and extinct animals while presenting topics that range from gigantism to intellect.
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback
- El Niño, Catastrophism, and Culture Change in Ancient America
- Edited by Daniel H. Sandweiss
- Edited by Jeffrey Quilter
- This book summarizes research on the nature of El Niño events in the Americas and details specific historic and prehistoric patterns in Peru and elsewhere.
- Hardcover 2008
- Fathoming the Ocean
- Helen M. Rozwadowski
- Foreword by Sylvia Earle
- By the middle of the nineteenth century, as scientists explored the frontiers of polar regions and the atmosphere, the ocean remained silent and inaccessible. The history of how this changed--of how the depths became a scientific passion and a cultural obsession, an engineering challenge and a political attraction--is the story that unfolds in Fathoming the Ocean.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2008
- From Stone to Star
- Claude Allègre
- Deborah Kurmes Van Dam, Translator
- Chronicling one of the great scientific adventures of our time, the eminent geochemist Claude Allègre offers a fascinating glimpse into the sophisticated isotopic detective work that has established a geologic chronology of the earth and transformed our understanding of its genesis and history. From the fossil collecting methods of eighteenth--century geologists to the development of high resolution mass spectronomy, this book provides an engaging introduction to the history, methods, and theories of modern geology.
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1994
- Ice Ages
- John Imbrie
- Katherine Palmer Imbrie
- This book tells the exciting story of the ice ages--what they were like, why they occurred, and when the next one is due. The solution to the ice age mystery originated when the National Science Foundation organized the CLIMAP project to study changes in the earth's climate over the past 700,000 years. One of the goals was to produce a map of the earth during the last ice age. Scientists examined cores of sediment from the Indian Ocean bed and deciphered a continuous history for the past 500,000 years. Their work ultimately confirmed the theory that the earth's irregular orbital motions account for the bizarre climatic changes which bring on ice ages.
- Paperback
- Krakatau
- Ian Thornton
- On August 27, 1883, the island of Krakatau near Java erupted with a force nearly ten thousand times that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, obliterating all plant and animal life. This book is a comprehensive account of the reassembly of a tropical forest ecosystem on Krakatau over the past century. It is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the rebirth of Krakatau as well as the resilience of life everywhere.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover
- Origins of Igneous Rocks
- Paul C. Hess
- Hardcover 1989
- Paleoceanography
- Thomas J. M. Schopf
- Whether in the context of off-shore oil exploration or pure research, the oceans of the geological past have never been of more compelling interest. The recent expansion in oceanographic studies has produced a burgeoning of data on ancient ocean circulation, climate, bathymetry, chemistry, biology, and temperature data that now should be considered in a more general geological and paleontological framework. Paleoceanography will serve as an important resource for paleontologists and for a much broader audience of earth and ocean scientists, petroleum geologists, and stratigraphers.
- Hardcover 1980
- The Sea, Volume 1, Physical Oceanography
- Edited by M. N. Hill
- Hardcover
- The Sea, Volume 10, The Global Coastal Ocean
- Edited by Kenneth H. Brink
- Edited by Allan R. Robinson
- Hardcover
- The Sea, Volume 11, The Global Coastal Ocean
- Edited by Allan R. Robinson
- Edited by Kenneth H. Brink
- Hardcover
- The Sea, Volume 12, Biological-Physical Interactions in the Sea
- Edited by Allan R. Robinson
- Edited by James J. McCarthy
- Edited by Brian J. Rothschild
- Hardcover
- The Sea, Volume 13, The Global Coastal Ocean
- Edited by Allan R. Robinson
- Edited by Kenneth H. Brink
- A continuing, comprehensive and timely survey of the state of knowledge of ocean science, this distinguished series provides an overview of research frontiers as ocean science progresses. Areas covered include physical, biological, and chemical oceanography, marine geology, and geophysics and the interactions of the oceans with the atmosphere, the solid earth, and ice.
- Hardcover 2005
- The Sea, Volume 14A, The Global Coastal Ocean
- Edited by Allan R. Robinson
- Edited by Kenneth H. Brink
- A continuing, comprehensive and timely survey of the state of knowledge of ocean science, this distinguished series provides an overview of research frontiers as ocean science progresses. Areas covered include physical, biological, and chemical oceanography, marine geology, and geophysics and the interactions of the oceans with the atmosphere, the solid earth, and ice.
- Hardcover 2006
- The Sea, Volume 14B, The Global Coastal Ocean
- Edited by Allan R. Robinson
- Edited by Kenneth H. Brink
- Hardcover 2006
- The Sea, Volume 15, Tsunamis
- Edited by Eddie N. Bernard
- Edited by Allan R. Robinson
- The world’s foremost experts write about the dynamics of geophysical processes involved in tsunami generation, propagation, and inundation, along with the statistical and geophysical properties of tsunami recurrence, and their application to tsunami forecasts and warnings.
- Hardcover 2009
- The Sea, Volume 2, The Composition of Sea-Water Comparative and Descriptive Oceanography
- Edited by M. N. Hill
- Hardcover
- The Sea, Volume 3, The Earth Beneath the Sea History
- Edited by M. N. Hill
- Hardcover
- The Sea, Volume 4A, New Concepts of Sea Floor Evolution
- Edited by Arthur E. Maxwell
- Edited by Edward Bullard
- Edited by J. Lamar Worzel
- Hardcover
- The Sea, Volume 4B, New Concepts of Sea Floor Evolution
- Edited by Arthur E. Maxwell
- Edited by Edward Bullard
- Edited by J. Lamar Worzel
- Hardcover
- The Sea, Volume 5, Marine Chemistry
- Edited by Edward D. Goldberg
- Hardcover
- The Sea, Volume 6, Marine Modeling
- Edited by Edward D. Goldberg
- Edited by I. N. McCave
- Edited by J. J. O'Brien
- Edited by John H. Steele
- Hardcover
- The Sea, Volume 7, The Oceanic Lithosphere
- Edited by Cesare Emiliani
- Hardcover
- The Sea, Volume 8, Deep-Sea Biology
- Edited by Gilbert T. Rowe
- Hardcover
- The Sea, Volume 9, Ocean Engineering Science
- Edited by Bernard le Méhauté
- Edited by Daniel M. Hanes
- Hardcover
- Supercontinent
- Ted Nield
- This book explores the the Supercontinent cycle, a geological cycle so vast that our species will probably be extinct long before the current one ends. And yet this cycle, the grandest pattern in Nature, may well be the fundamental reason any complex life at all exists. Nield introduces readers to some of the most exciting science of our time, describing how geologists first guessed at these vanishing landmasses and came to appreciate the significance of the fusing and fragmenting of supercontinents.
- Hardcover 2007
- Thinking about the Earth
- David Oldroyd
- Thinking about the Earth is a history of the geological tradition of Western science. David Oldroyd traverses such topics as "mechanical" and "historicist" views of the earth, map-work, chemical analyses of rocks and minerals, geomorphology, experimental petrology, seismology, theories of mountain building, and geochemistry.
- Hardcover 1996
- Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Hardcover 1987 / Paperback
- A View of the River
- Luna B. Leopold
- Widely regarded as the most creative scholar in the field of river morphology, Leopold presents a coherent description of the river, its shape, size, organization, and action, along with a consistent theory that explains much of the observed character of channels.
- Paperback 2006 / Hardcover