📚 Petrology

Rocks read as history: igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic, and what each says about the ground beneath.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject petrology 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
	A handbook of rocks, for use without the microscope	Kemp, James Furman	1896	31
	Petrology of the igneous rocks	F. H. Hatch	1914	15
	Midaregami	Akiko Yosano	1935	15
	Petrology for students	Harker, Alfred	1895	12
	Rocks and rock minerals	Louis V. Pirsson	1908	12
	The petrology of the sedimentary rocks	F. H. Hatch	1913	12
	Sedimentary petrology	Maurice E. Tucker	1981	12
	The study of rocks	Frank Rutley	1879	11
	The principles of petrology	G. W. Tyrrell	1926	11
	Exercises in physical geology	W. Kenneth Hamblin	1975	11
	Rocks and Minerals (Smithsonian Handbook)	Chris Pellant	1990	11
	Petrology for students	Alfred Harker	1897	10
	Rocks and minerals	Herbert S. Zim	1957	9
	Igneous and metamorphic petrology	Myron G. Best	1982	9
	Rocks and minerals	Chris Pellant	2000	9
	A Descriptive Petrography of the Igneous Rocks	Johannsen, Albert	1931	8
	Petrology of sedimentary rocks	Robert L. Folk	1959	8
	Earth Materials	Cornelis Klein	2012	8
	Manual of mineralogy and petrography	James D. Dana	1887	7
	Petrographie (gesteinskunde)	Willy Bruhns	1903	7
	Minerals and rocks	Cornelis Klein	1989	7
	Petrology	Loren A. Raymond	1994	7
	The minerals and geology of central Canada	E. J. Chapman	1871	6
	Microscopical physiography of the rock-making minerals	Harry Rosenbusch	1888	6
	A treatise on rocks, rock-weathering and soils	George Perkins Merrill	1897	6
	A treatise on rocks, rock-weathering and soils	George P. Merrill	1897	6
	Petrographic methods	Ernst Weinschenk	1912	6
	Rocks and minerals of Ontario	Donald F. Hewitt	1965	6
	An Introduction to the Practical Study of Crystals, Minerals, and Rocks	K. G. Cox	1967	6
	Quantitative Textural Measurements in Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology	Michael Denis Higgins	2006	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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