Geology & The Lithosphere

This book is one of a popular and exciting series that seeks to tell the story of some of Britain's most beautiful landscapes. Written with the gen...

Traditionally, investigations of the rheology and deformation of the lithosphere (the rigid or mechanically strong outer layer of the Earth, which ...

What motivates a scientist? One key factor is the pressure from the competition to be the first to discover something new. The moral consequences o...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

This book is for students who did not follow mathematics through to the end of their school careers, and graduates and professionals who are lookin...

Most people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building stone in an...

The purpose of this book is to acquaint the geoscientist with issues associated with the debate over orientation and magnitude of stress in the lit...

Approximately 12,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, the three kilometers of ice that covered Canada, the large European glaciers in Fen...

A beautiful memoir, travelogue and meditation on stone by artist and stone mason Beatrice Searle.'Extraordinary' Guardian‘A magnificent book’ Alex ...

The essential illustrated rocks and minerals guide.Learn how to identify rocks and minerals and appreciate the beauty of the natural world with Roc...

Residents and visitors in today’s Seattle would barely recognize the landscape that its founding settlers first encountered. As the city grew, its ...

Rocks and mountains have withstood aeons of life on our planet - gradually eroding, shifting, solidifying, and weathering. We might spend a little ...