Historical geology and palaeogeology

The Valles Caldera consists of a twelve-mile-wide collapsed volcanic crater and more than ten postcollapse volcanic domes in New Mexico's Jemez Mountains.

Man with hammer, rucksack and GSOH offers gritty adventure holidays.

National Book Award Winner and New York Times Bestseller: Explore earth’s most precious, mysterious resource—the ocean—with the author of Silent Spring.

Conus is the largest genus of animals in the sea, occurring throughout the world's tropical and subtropical oceans and contributing significantly to marine biodiversity.

Places the history of geology into the larger context of the history of science in general.

The Holocene provides students, researchers and lay-readers with the remarkable story of how the natural world has been transformed since the end of the last Ice Age around 15,000 years ago.

This book, first published in 1984, has both a geomorphic and a hydrologic message.

The little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the worldThe Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States.

Explores how the British Empire responded to the environmental challenges of the world''s largest tidal delta.

From Uluru to the Great Dividing Range, The Geology of Australia explores the timeless forces that have shaped this continent.

An idiosyncratic, richly illustrated guide to Britain's rivers, seas and shores, for everyone who loves the water and the natural world - a Norwegian Wood for Britain's watersThis is a book for those who want to understand better how the waters surrounding us affect our daily lives, how it imperceptibly but crucially shapes our actions, and has shaped our landscape for millenia.

This book, first published in 1983, incorporates a wealth of reference material - keys, nomograms, tables, charts - likely to be needed in the field for actual fieldwork.

This book, first published in 1973, presents the papers from the 3rd Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium.

Sentient Conceptualisations is about how scientists studying the past understand time in relation to space.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.

Conus is the largest genus of animals in the sea, occurring throughout the world's tropical and subtropical oceans and contributing significantly to marine biodiversity.

Due to political pressures, prior to the 1990s little was known about the nature of human foraging adaptations in the deserts, grasslands, and mountains of north western China during the last glacial period.

Tuzo is the never-before-told story of one of Canada's most influential scientists and the discovery of plate tectonics, a pivotal development that forever altered how we think of our planet.

An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of water'Fascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun.

Britain, Ireland and their surrounding areas have a remarkably varied geology for so small a fragment of continental crust.

The idea of the Arctic Ocean as a mediterranean sea is a shock to those of us-and that includes most of us-who cannot shake ourselves free of the Mercatorean vision.

This volume brings together essays that measure the life history of stone tools relative to retouch values, raw material constraints and evolutionary processes.

This book, first published in 1989, the proceedings of the 19th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, is the first set of essays focused on the history of the subject.

Few parts of our British islands can compare with our sea coasts as plant hunting ground.

This book is an essential reference volume that surveys tectonic landforms on solid bodies throughout the Solar System.

This book, first published in 1986, stems from the 1986 Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium.

The clearest and sharpest recognition guide to over 500 species of seashell from around the worldAuthoritative text, crystal-clear photography, and a systematic approach make this the most comprehensive and concise e-guide to seashells of the world.

A wonderful anthology of poetry celebrating the British coastline and life above and below the deep blue sea.

The beautifully written story of shells and their makers, and our relationships with them.

The deep sea is the last, vast wilderness on the planet.

';The sea is as near as we come to another world.

Von den Lagunen in Baja California bis zu den Gletschern des Nordpolarmeers legen Grauwalmütter mit ihren Kälbern jährlich Tausende von Meilen in dem sich aufgrund des Klimawandels erwärmenden Meer zurück.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE PRIZE 2022'A joyful collision of science, history and nature writing' Helen Gordon, author of Notes from Deep TimeAdam Sedgwick was a priest and scholar.

Wer träumt nicht davon, im Sommer auf Spitzbergen zu sein?

'Armed with this intrepid survey, we can see a brave new world down there on the beach .

A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush.

'I absolutely loved it - what a wise, brilliant book - so well observed on families and love and the secrets we keep.

Escape to the ocean with this new collection of minis from Kerry Lord and her Edward's Menagerie animals.

Discover how we got to where we are, in this multidisciplinary approach to 13.

A facsimile edition of a classic source for the history of piracy, as used by Robert Louis Stevenson in the writing of Treasure Island.

Quelles créatures insolites habitent les profondeurs de l’océan ?

Using a question and answer format, this entertaining narrativeaddresses a multitude of general interest questions about the sea, sea life,seabirds and man's relationship with the sea.

This ebook edition does not include illustrations.

A startling new book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, co-curator of 'Moby Dick: Big Read and winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for 'Leviathan'.

This ebook edition does not include illustrations.