Geology History

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    • How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
    • By: Marcia Bjornerud
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • Timefulness reveals how knowing the rhythms of Earth's deep past and conceiving of time as a geologist does can give us the perspective we need for a more sustainable future....

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    • Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them
    • By: Donald R. Prothero
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 141 ratings
    • The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook the foundations of geology....

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    • Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
    • By: Andrew H. Knoll
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 253 ratings
    • Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story....

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    • By: Craig Childs
    • Narrated by: Craig Childs
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,026 ratings
    • From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America 20,000 years ago....

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    • The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
    • By: Robert M. Hazen
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,082 ratings
    • In this radical new approach to Earth’s biography, Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere has shaped our planet into the only one of its kind....

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    • Annals of the Former World, Book 1
    • By: John McPhee
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Series: Annals of the Former World, Book 1
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 518 ratings
    • To geologists, rocks are beautiful, roadcuts are windowpanes, and the earth is alive, a work in progress....

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    • An Intimate History
    • By: Richard Fortey
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 18 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • In Earth, the acclaimed author of Trilobite! and Life takes us on a grand tour of the earth's physical past, showing how the history of plate tectonics is etched in the landscape around us....

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    • Evidence Will Not Be Silenced
    • By: David Montaigne
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Your government and religious leaders may not want you to know, but the evidence suggests that pole shifts are both magnetic and geophysical, with ...

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    • How Earth's History Shaped Human History
    • By: Lewis Dartnell
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 605 ratings
    • When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming....

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    • A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
    • By: Natalie Angier
    • Narrated by: Nike Doukas
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-07
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 214 ratings
    • Buckle up for a joy ride through physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy....

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    • The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
    • By: Stephen Jay Gould
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It holds the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail....

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    • By: Alan Cutler
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 178 ratings
    • This is the story of a seventeenth-century scientist-turned-priest who forever changed our understanding of the Earth and created a new field of science...

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    • A Secret History of the Urban Age
    • By: Annalee Newitz
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 346 ratings
    • In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities....

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    • The Magnificent History in New England's Stone Walls
    • By: Robert M. Thorson
    • Narrated by: Robert M. Thorson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • There once may have been 250,000 miles of stone walls in America's Northeast, stretching farther than the distance to the moon. And even though most are crumbling today, they contain a magnificent scientific and cultural story....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Jan Zalasiewicz
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Jan Zalasiewicz gives a brief introduction to the fascinating field of geology....

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    • After The Firm
    • By: John Grisham
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Series: Mitch McDeere, Book 2
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4,609 ratings
    • What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? The answer is in The Exchange, the riveting sequel to The Firm, the blockbuster thriller that launched the career of America’s favorite storyteller....

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    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: William Roberts
    • Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,187 ratings
    • A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....

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    • The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
    • By: Ed Conway
    • Narrated by: Ed Conway
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 156 ratings
    • Ed Conway embarks on an epic journey across continents, cultures, and epochs to reveal the underpinnings of modern life on Earth—traveling from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan to the eerie green pools where lithium originates....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Martin Redfern
    • Narrated by: Diane Cardea
    • Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This Introduction audiobook explores emerging geological research and explains how new advances in the understanding of plate tectonics, seismology, and satellite imagery have enabled us to begin to see the Earth as it actually is: dynamic and ever-changing....

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    • A World History
    • By: Mark Kurlansky
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,136 ratings
    • The author of Cod and The Basque History of the World takes an extraordinary look at an ordinary substance — salt, the only rock humans eat — and how it has shaped civilization from the very beginning....

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