Library - list of books

Subjects

List compiled by Bob McIntosh and Bill Coppock

Biography of geologists etc.

James David Forbes, pioneer Scottish glaciologist

F.F. Cunningham

James Hutton 1726 - 1797 [Scottish man of science] 

Jean Jones

James Hutton: founder of modern geology 

A. McKirdy

James Hutton and the history of geology 

Dean

Sand, wind and war 

R.A. Bagnold

Scientist of empire 

R.A. Stafford

One life 

R.E. Leakey

James 'Paraffin' Young 1811- 1883 

John Butt

William Scoresby: Arctic explorer, 1789 - 1857 [Scottish man of science] 

H. Montgomery

Ecology

The ages of Gaia

J. Lovelock

Economic geology

5th Meeting of the European Clay Groups

J. Konta

Building stones of Glasgow

Judith Lawson

Introduction to the petroleum geology of the North Sea

K.W. Glennie

Gold metallogeny and exploration

R.P. Foster

Edinburgh: an illustrated architectural guide

McKean & Walker

Tenth Conference on Clay Mineralogy and Petrology in Ostrava, August 26-29 1986

Conference on Clay Mineralogy

Energy resources: geology, supply and demand

G.C. Brown

Dundee

McKean & Walker

A guide to colour to precious and semi-precious stones

Bauer & Bouska

Ninth Conference on Clay Mineralogy and Petrology in Zoolen

 

Building stones of Edinburgh

I.T. Bunyan

Scotland and petrochemicals

T. Patten

Petroleum geology

F.K. North

Evolution 

Bones of contention

R. Lewin

The problems of evolution

Mark Ridley

Wonderful life

Stephen Jay Gould

The book of life

Stephen Jay Gould

Darwinism defended: a guide to the evolution controversies

Michael Rose

The fossil record and evolution

L.F. Laporte

Extinction

D.M. Raup

The Nemesis affair

D.M. Raup

Lucy: the beginnings of humankind

Johanson & Edey

The evolution of vertebrate design

Leonard B. Radinsky

Evolution

Scientific American

Missing links: the hunt for earliest man

John Reader

An urchin in the storm: essays about books and ideas

Stephen Jay Gould

The new catastrophism, the importance of the rare event in geological history

D. Ager

Catastrophic episodes in earth history

C.C. Albritton

Catastrophes and earth history

Berggren & Van Couvering

The panda's thumb

Stephen Jay Gould

Life: an authorised biography

R. Fortey

Bully for brontosaurus

Stephen Jay Gould

Eight little piggies

Stephen Jay Gould

Ever since Darwin: reflections in natural history

Stephen Jay Gould

Evolution: a biological and paleontological approach

P. Skelton

The flamingo's smile: reflections in natural history

Stephen Jay Gould

Hen's teeth and horse's toes

Stephen Jay Gould

General geology 

Earth

Press & Siever

Great geological controversies

A. Hallam

Natural disasters

D. Alexander

Understanding the earth

G.C. Brown

Callin's rocks & fossils: the ultimate guide

A.B. Busbey

Cambridge encyclopedia of earth sciences

Cambridge UP

The story of the earth

Cattermole & Moore

Geology and society

D.R. Coates

Science of the earth

A.J. Eardley

Geology principles & methods

J. Dercourt

Principles of physical geology

Arthur Holmes

Time's arrow, time's cycle

Stephen Jay Gould

From mineralogy to geology: the foundations of a science, 1650 - 1830

Rachel Lauden

Putnam's geology

E.E. Larson

Environmental geology

E.A. Keller

Basin and range

John McPhee

The earth

E.J. Tarbuck

Geology and man

J. Watson

Geological howlers, boners and bloomers (Glasgow G.S.)

W.D.I. Rolfe

The dark side of the earth

R.M. Wood

Down to earth

H.E. Wilson

Principles of earth science

A.N. Strahler

The dynamic earth

Scientific American

Geological maps and mapping

Image interpretation in geology

S.A. Drury

The geological map, an anatomy of the landscape

E. Edmonds

Introduction to geological maps and structures

J.L. Roberts

Exploring earth from space

Jon Erikson

Geology of the British Isles

A geology of Ireland

C.H. Holland

The geology of the Lothians and south east Scotland

G.Y. Craig

Excursion guide to the geology of the Aberdeen area

N.H Trewin

Geology of Scotland

G.Y. Craig

The Lake District

Cumberland Geological Society

London: illustrated geological walks: book 2

E. Robinson

Excursion guide to the geology of east Sutherland and Caithness

N.H. Trewin

Geology of Scotland

G.Y. Craig

Britain before man

F.W. Dunning

Ardnamurchan

C.D. Gribble

Geology of the Glasgow district

B.J. Bluck

London: illustrated geological walks: book 1

E. Robinson

Assynt district of Sutherland

M.R.W. Johnson

Geology of Arran

McDonald & Herriot

The Midland Valley of Scotland

I.B. Cameron

Geology of the country around Girvan

I.B. Cameron

British regional geology

I.B. Cameron

Field excursion guide to the Carboniferous volcanic rocks of the Midland Valley of Scotland 

by B.G.J. Upton 

Tertiary and Post-Tertiary geology of Mull, Loch Aline and Oban

E.B. Bailey

Geological highlights of the West Country

W.A. MacFadyen

Geomorphology

Islands

H.W. Menard

Global geomorphology

M.A. Summerfield

The hidden landscape

R. Fortey

Geology and scenery in Scotland

J.B. Whitton

The evolving coast

Richard R. Davis Jnr.

Scotland (geomorphology of the British Isles)

J.B. Sissons

Sand

Raymond Siever

Earth's changing surface

M.J. Selby

Ice ages: solving the mystery

Imbrie & Imbrie

The Macmillan field guide to geological structures

J.L. Roberts

Geophysics, earthquakes, geomagnetism etc. 

Global geophysics 

Global geophysics 

Introduction to geomagnetism

W.D. Parkinson

Earthquakes and geological discovery

Bruce A. Bolt

Earthquakes

S. Van Rose

Paleomagnetism: principles and applications in geology, geophysics and archaeology

D.H. Tarling

Field geology, minerals and rocks

J.F. Kirkaldy

Inside the earth

Bruce A. Bolt

Mathematical modelling in electromagnetic prospecting methods

V. Bezvoda

Acts of the International Conference on Seismic Zones in the Mediterranean Area 

 

Earthquakes and volcanoes

Scientific American

Earthquakes: a primer

B.A. Bolt

History of geology 

Piltdown. A scientific forgery

F. Spencer

Hydrogeology 

Hydrogeology 

The Water of Leith

Jamieson & Hope

Marine geology

Marine geology

Roger N. Anderson

Science at sea: tales of an old ocean

T.H. Van Andel

Palaeontology, fossils, dinosaurs, etc.

Prehistory

Giovanni Pinna

Fossils: the key to the past

R. Fortey

Time, life and man

R.A. Stirton

Basic questions in palaeontology

H. Otto

Elements of micropalaeontology

G. Bignot

Dinosaurs past and present: Vol 1

Sylvia J. Czerkas

Dinosaurs past and present: Vol 2

Sylvia J. Czerkas

Wandering lands and animals

E.H. Colbert

Fossils of the world

V. Turek

Systematics and the fossil record

Andrew B. Smith

Dinosaurs from China

Dong Zhiming

Vertebrate palaeontology

A.S. Romer

Fossil horses

B.J. MacFadden

The dinosaur heresies

R. Bakker

Discoverers of the Lost World

G.G. Simpson

Fossils and the history of life

Simpson

Quaternary insects and their environment

Scott R. Elias

Mammal Evolution

Savage & Long

The Dinosaur heresies

R. Bakker

Dinosaurs, spitfires and sea dragons

C. McGowan

Fossils - The McDonald encyclopedia of

P. Arduini

On the track of Ice Age mammals

A.J. Sutcliffe

The crucible of creation

S.C. Morris

Atlas of invertebrate macrofossils

J.W. Murray

Petrology, rocks etc.

Magmas and magmatic rocks

E.A.K. Middlemost

2nd International Conference on Natural Glasses

J. Konta

The origin and evolution of coal

P.J. Adams

Planetary geology 

Venus: the geological story

Peter Cattermole

Moon, mars and meteorites

Peter Adams

Plate tectonics etc. 

Plate tectonics etc. 

The origin of continents and oceans

A. Wegener

The making of a continent

R. Redfern

Global tectonics

P. Kearey

Plate tectonics: how it works

Cox & Hart

The ocean of truth

H.W. Menard

Continents adrift and continents aground

Scientific American

New views on an old planet

T.H. Van Andel

The road to Jaramillo

W. Glen

Structural geology of rocks and regions

G.H. Davis

Plate tectonics

D.C. Heather

Plate tectonics and crustal evolution

K.C. Condie

Mesozoic - Cenozoic orogenic belts

A.M. Spencer

Stratigraphy

Scottish Journal of Geology: Guides to the Dalradian Rocks of the South-west Highlands: The Dalradian rocks of Lunga, Luing and Shuna

C.T. Baldwin

Scottish Journal of Geology: Guides to the Dalradian Rocks of the South-west Highlands: The Dalradian rocks of Jura

R. Anderson

Quaternary environments

M.A.J. Williams

Growth of a prehistoric time scale: based on organic evolution

William B.N. Berry

Earth and life through time

S.H. Stanley

The Young earth: an introduction to Archean geology

E.G. Nisbet

Scottish Journal of Geology: Guides to the Dalradian rocks of the South-west Highlands: The Dalradian rocks of Knapdale and North Kintyre

J.L. Roberts

Scottish Journal of Geology: Guides to the Dalradian rocks of the South-west Highlands: The Dalradian rocks of Loch Leven Area

J.L. Roberts

Scottish Journal of Geology: Guides to the Dalradian Rocks of the South-west Highlands: The Dalradian rocks of Roseneath and South-east Cowal

J.L. Roberts

Scottish Journal of Geology: Introduction to the Dalradian rocks of the South-west Highlands 

by J.L. Roberts 

Sequence stratigraphy

D. Emery

Scottish Journal of Geology: Guides to the Dalradian rocks of the South-west Highlands: The Dalradian rocks of the west coast of the Tayvallich Peninsula

P.J. Gower

Scottish Journal of Geology: Guides to the Dalradian rocks of the South-west Highlands: The Dalradian rocks of the northern Loch Awe district

G.J. Borrodsile

Scotland's environment

R.J. Price

The great Palaeozoic crisis

Douglas H. Erwin

Aspects of a stratigraphic system: The Devonian

D.L. Dineley

The age of the earth

John Thackray

The Holocene

N. Roberts

Time and geology 

Time and geology 

The age of the earth

G. Brent Dalrymple

The abyss of time

C.C. Albritton

Astrological events in China

Dao-yi Xu

The earth's age and geochronology

D. York

Vulcanology

Volcanoes

Peter Francis

Volcanoes and society

D. Chester

Mount Etna

D. Chester

Volcanoes

S. Van Rose

Volcano

Planet Earth

 

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