📚 Geology & Earth

Plate tectonics, deep time and the rocks that record four and a half billion years of it.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject geology in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Römische Geschichte	Theodor Mommsen	1854	122
	The earth	Edward J. Tarbuck	1984	73
	Essentials of geology	Frederick K. Lutgens	1982	55
	Carte géologique	Cartes BRGM	2000	46
	The Magic School Bus	Joanna Cole	1994	29
	Madam How and Lady Why	Charles Kingsley	1870	23
	Geology	Stanley Chernicoff	1957	21
	Sketch-book of popular geology	Hugh Miller	1859	20
	Engineering geology	Ries, Heinrich	1914	20
	Earth	Stephen Marshak	2001	20
	The changing earth	James S. Monroe	1994	17
	Essentials of Geology	Stephen Marshak	2003	17
	Production and operations management	Everett E. Adam	1978	14
	Environmental geology	Carla W. Montgomery	1986	14
	Assembling California	John McPhee	1993	12
	Outline of historical geology	A. K. Wells	1938	11
	Exercises in physical geology	W. Kenneth Hamblin	1975	11
	Environmental geology	Keller, Edward A.	1976	11
	Basin and range	John McPhee	1980	10
	Physical geology	David McGeary	1992	10
	Principles of physical geology	Arthur Holmes	1944	9
	Géologie	Jean Dercourt	1974	9
	Geology	Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes	1971	8
	The man who found time	Jack Repcheck	2003	8
	Geology	Aurèle Parriaux	2009	8
	Geology for civil engineers	McLean, A. C.	1979	7
	Petrophysics	Steve Cannon	2015	7
	Principles of geology	James Gilluly	1951	6
	Sedimentary Environments	Harold G. Reading	1986	6
	A Brief History of Earth	Andrew H. Knoll	2021	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 29 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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