Geology

This work provides a comprehensive geological framework for the formation and structure of the Oman Mountain belt.

"Ice and Glaciers" is a scientific lecture delivered by Hermann von Helmholtz, the renowned German physicist and physiologist,…

Essay on the Theory of the Earth is a work of geological and natural-historical synthesis by Baron G.

Discourse on the Revolutions of the Surface of the Globe is a work of geological and anatomical synthesis…

Cuvier's Researches on Fossil Bones rests on a single, audacious premise: that scattered bones buried in the earth…

Buffon's Natural History of Minerals is a work of eighteenth-century natural philosophy, translated from the French and printed…

This English translation of Buffon’s natural-philosophical history of the Earth presents his seven epochs of the globe’s physical…

Wilhelm von Humboldt examines Montserrat's singular geology and sublime aesthetic, describing its jagged silhouette like a saw against…

Tsiolkovsky's essay addresses the Fermi paradox, the contradiction between numerous habitable planets and the absence of evidence of…

This monograph examines fossil crocodilian remains discovered in the Triassic sandstone formations near Elgin, in northeastern Scotland.

Lomonosov proposes that metals and minerals form deep within the Earth through heat and pressure, with earthquakes playing…

This work brings together several of Mikhail Lomonosov's scientific writings from the mid-eighteenth century on geology and mining.

The core of the work was originally read at the Geological Society of London on March 12, 1834,…

This book presents Charles Darwin's geological observations from his voyage aboard H.M.S.