Looks at types of rocks and how they are made.

This volume explains in simple terms what geology can tell us about the world. Many objects of great beauty and which excite our curiosity, such as crystals or fossils, are to be found by examining rocks.

This text includes 25 stories, beginning with the search for an alchemist's secret, & ending with the re-imagination of a past world. Each is connected to a remote corner of north-east England, exploring the line where myth dissolves into science.

In this narrative of the Earth's long and dramatic history, Jan Zalasiewicz shows how many events in the Earth's ancient past can be deciphered from a single pebble. He explores how geologists reach deep into the past by forensic analysis of even the tiniest amounts of mineral matter, demonstrating and revealing Earth's story.

Interest in the environment has never been greater and yet most of us have little knowledge about the 4 billion years of history that formed it. This book explains the principles of geology, geography and geomorphology which illuminate the landscape around us.

This is the fascinating story of the survival of microbes in the coldest, deepest, hottest and highest places on Earth. These organisms have existed on the planet for three billion years, resisting extinction in the face of many calamatous events.

Darwin puzzled over why ancient Precambrian rocks seemed barren of life. Brasier describes the quest to shed light on Darwin's lost world, the discovery of its strange creatures, and what drove the sudden flurry of evolution called the Cambrian Explosion, amid tales told with relish of expeditions to the remotest corners of the world.

A basic introduction to the formation and qualities of different kinds of rocks.

Rocks and mountains have withstood aeons of life on our planet - gradually eroding, shifting, solidifying, and weathering. We might spend a little less time on earth, but humans are also weathering: evolving and changing as we're transformed by the shifting climates of our lives and experiences. So, what might these ancient natural forms have to teach us about resilience and change? In a stunning exploration of our own connection to these enduring...