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This is a list of important publications in geology, organized by field.
Some reasons why a particular publication might be regarded as important:
- Topic creator – A publication that created a new topic
- Breakthrough – A publication that changed scientific knowledge significantly
- Introduction – A publication that is a good introduction or survey of a topic
- Influence – A publication which has significantly influenced the world
- Latest and greatest – The current most advanced result in a topic
Foundations
Principles of Geology
- Author: Charles Lyell
- Publication data: 1830–1833.
- Online version: Online version at esp.org
- Description: The work's subtitle was "An Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface by Reference to Causes now in Operation", and this explains Lyell's impact on science: he was, along with the earlier John Playfair, the major advocate of the then-controversial idea of uniformitarianism, that the Earth was shaped entirely by slow-moving forces acting over a very long period of time. This was in contrast to catastrophism, a geologic idea that went hand-in-hand with the age of the Earth suggested by biblical chronology. In various revised editions (twelve in all, through 1872), Principles of Geology was the most influential geological work in the middle of the 19th century, and did much to put geology on a modern footing.
- Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence
Biogeology
Economic geology
Mineral Resources On-Line Spatial Data
- Subtitle: A source for regional and global geology, geochemistry, geophysics, and mineral resource maps and data, by US Geological Survey
- URL: http://mrdata.usgs.gov/
- (accessed June 25, 2006; page last revised 31 May 2006)
- Description: This is the portal for a basic tool for finding information on the location and characteristics of almost all known mineral deposits in the United States, with some information on major mineral deposits worldwide.
- Importance: A key online mineral-resource database for economic geology
Ore Deposits of the United States, 1933-1967: the Graton-Sales volume
- Editor John D. Ridge
- AIME, New York, 1968. Two volumes.
- Description: Descriptions of major ore deposits. Updates the earlier Lindgren volume.
- Importance: A basic reference work for all economic geologists
Engineering geology
Engineering Geology: Rock in Engineering Construction
- Author: Richard E. Goodman
- John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1993 ISBN 0471544248
Geochemistry
Victor Moritz Goldschmidt: Father of Modern Geochemistry
- Author: Brian Mason
- (ISBN 0-941809-03-X)
- Description:
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Geodetics
Map Projections - A Working Manual.
- Author: Snyder, J. P.
- U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395 (Book), 1987.
- Description:
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Geomorphology
Report on the Geology of the Henry Mountains
- Author: Grove Karl Gilbert
- U.S.G.S. Professional Paper, 1877
- Description:
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Geophysics
The Solid Earth: An Introduction to Global Geophysics, by C.M.R. Fowler, published by Cambridge University Press - provides a broad and largely non-mathematical introduction to global geophysics.
Geodynamics by Donald L. Turcotte and Gerald Schubert, published by Cambridge University Press - provides a mathematical account of the geophysical processes occurring within the outer ~100 km of the Earth.
Geotechnical engineering
Theoretical Soil Mechanics
- Author: Karl von Terzaghi
- John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1943
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Hydrogeology
The Public Fountains of the City of Dijon.
- Author: Henry Darcy, English translation by Patricia Bobeck
- Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 1856 (reprint ISBN 0-7575-0540-6).
- Description:
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Groundwater
- Author:R. Allan Freeze and John A. Cherry
- Prentice Hall, 1979, (ISBN 0-13-365312-9).
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Mineralogy
Textbook on Mineralogy (De Natura Fossilium)
- Author: Georg Frederick Agricola, translated from Latin by Mark Chance Bandy and Jean Bandy
PUBLISHED BY THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
- Description: Systematic treatise of then known minerals and gemstones as well as other rocks.
- Importance: The first systematic mineralogical treatise since Pliny's Natural History, first published in 1564
Petroleum geology
Sedimentology
Sedimentary Environments and Facies
- Editor: H.G. Reading
- (ISBN 0-444-00276-6)
- Description: A detailed look at sedimentary environments and the deposits they produce.
- Importance: advanced reference
Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
- Author: Sam Boggs, Jr.
- (ISBN 0-13-154728-3)
- Description:
- Importance: introduction
Stratigraphy
De solido intra solidum naturaliter contento dissertationis prodromus
- Author: Steno, Nicolaus (Stensen, Niels),
- Firenze, 79p, 1669.
- Description:
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Einleitung in die Geologie als historische Wissenschaft. Beobachtung über die Bildung der Gesteine und ihrer organischen Einschlüsse
- Author: Walther, Johannes,
- G. Fischer, Jena, 1055p, 1893.
- Description:
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International Stratigraphic Chart
- Author: Ogg, Gabi (drafter) for International Commission on Stratigraphy
- 2008-01, 1 page.
Structural geology
Folding and fracturing of rocks
- Author: J. G. Ramsay
- McGraw-Hill, 1967
- Description:
- Importance: Began a whole school of structural geology that used the techniques of continuum mechanics to understand rock structures.
Paleontology
Petrology
The Evolution of the Igneous Rocks
- Author: Norman L. Bowen
- 1928
- Description:
- Importance: breakthrough, influence
Metamorphic Phase Equilibria and Pressure-Temperature-Time Paths
- Author: Frank S. Spear
- 1993
- Description:
- Presents the thermodynamic basis for modern, quantitative petrology and systematically reviews metamorphism for most rock types.
Seismology
Quantitative Seismology, 2nd Edition
Author: Keiiti Aki, Paul G. Richards University Science Books, 2002
Description: Chapters outline basic theorems in dynamic elasticity, representation of seismic sources, elastic waves from a point dislocation, plane waves in homogeneous media and their reflection and transmission at a plane boundary, reflection and refraction of spherical waves; Lamb's problem, surface waves in a vertically heterogeneous medium, free oscillations of the Earth, body waves in media with depth-dependent properties, the seismic source: kinematics, the seismic source: dynamics, and principles of seismometry
Importance: This is the basic textbook used by theoretical seismologists
Tectonics
Tectonics
- Author: E. M. Moores and R. J. Twiss
- Publisher: W. H. Freeman
- Date:1995
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Volcanology
Encyclopedia of Volcanoes
- Author: Haraldur Sigurdsson, Bruce Houghton, Stephen R. McNutt, Hazel Rymer, John Stix - Editors
- Academic Press, London, 2000
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Volcanoes
- Author: Gordon A. Macdonald
- Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1972
- (ISBN 0-13-942219-6)
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