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The following is a bibliography of 11 books on the history of geology that can be helpful for researchers, teachers and students in this field. They are listed with the most recent books; choose any one of them to read:
A Brief History of Geology, Kieran D. O’Hara (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Earth’s Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters, M.J.S. Rudwick (University of Chicago Press, 2014).
Thinking About the Earth: A History of Ideas in Geology, David Oldroyd (Harvard University Press, 1996).
A History of Geology, Gabriel Gohau (translated from the French by Albert and Marguerite Carozzi) (Rutgers University Press, 1990).
Great Geological Controversies, A. Hallam (Oxford University Press, 1989, second ed.).
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Figure 6 – Climate zone changes on the way to the present Sahara Desert condition (National Climatic Data Center, NOAA)
The slides in Figure 7 represent segments of a potential presentation that would allow the introduction of climate change, atmospheric physics, geologic versus standard time,
Milankovitch Cycles, human migration, environmental change due to natural phenomena, principles of empire devel- opment, and the influences exerted by geoscience variables on the course of cul- tural development. Expansion of related topics of potential interest to other groups could include mineral resources (particularly tin and copper for bronze), warfare linking with Megiddo (the ancient site of Armageddon in the Bible), the influence of the Rift Valley topography on both modern and ancient Middle Eastern conflicts, the history of writing materials beginning with papyrus, expansion of trade routes and exploration, sources of limestone for construction of monuments, and any other concepts that may coincide with the interests of the presenters.
I hope to prepare a series of future editorials illustrating other examples of
topic areas and materials which may be of interest to geosci- entists who would like to become involved with the program.
Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Man and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time, Stephen Jay Gould (Harvard University Press, 1987).
It Began with a Stone: A History of Geology from the Stone Age to the Age of Plate Tectonics, Henry Faul and Carol Faul (John Wiley, 1983).
The Earth We Live On: The Story of Geological Discovery, Ruth Moore (Alfred Knopf, New York, 1956).
Giants of Geology, Carrol Lane Fenton and Mildred Adam Fenton (Doubleday, New York, 1956).
The Birth and Development of the Geological Sciences, by Frank Dawson Adams (Dover, New York, 1938, 1954).
The Founders of Geology, Archibald Geikie (Macmillan, London, 1905, second ed.), reprinted by Dover, 1962.
Figure 7 – Consolidation of Hunter-gatherer communities into the proto-Egyptian Empire, (Rudolph Kuper and Stefan Kropelin, 2006) 44 TPG •
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