Coral reefs, with thousands of individual coral polyps, provide homes for millions of other species that shelter in the coral's limestone skeleton. In the past, some of these reefs have became fossilized, allowing exploration of how reefs have responded to changing environmental conditions. Today's coral reefs are under intense pressure from human influences on the environment, and by studying how reefs persisted through natural cycles in the past, we can learn what reefs need to have a future.

Uploaded October 2025

'Discarded' tells the story of the fossils we will leave as relics into the far future. It explores how the things we now so abundantly produce and discard - plastic bottles, mobile phones, concrete flyways, chicken bones, aluminum cans and many more ' might alter with burial and petrify, to become future geology.

Uploaded October 2025

Geared toward a broad variety of students, Dinosaurs: The Textbook offers a concise and lucid presentation of the core biological and geological concepts of dinosaur science. Revised throughout to reflect recent fossil discoveries and the current scientific consensus, this seventh edition details the evolution, phylogeny, and classification of various dinosaur species while modeling the best approach for navigating new and existing research.

Uploaded October 2025

Discover the science, cultural history, and environmental importance of our planet's oceans. The World's Oceans includes more than 20 additional entries and highlights timely concerns, including overfishing and microplastics, while also providing expanded coverage of the role oceans play in modern society, from cruise ships to the America's Cup competition.

September 2025

In Rocks and Riches, Prost examines the workings of deep time, the fascinating and troubled legacies of the Gold Rush, and the ways geology continues to influence life in California today. Including dozens of illustrations and road maps, as well as guidance for fellow travelers, Rocks and Riches is both a practical handbook and an invitation to see California's landscapes with wonder.

September 2025

Petrology and Plate Tectonics presents a groundbreaking approach to teaching petrology by using plate tectonics as a unifying theme and integrating igneous and metamorphic topics to equip students with a clearer understanding of essential geological concepts. This holistic approach illustrates how petrology influences and is shaped by Earth's evolving systems, including climate change, mass extinctions, and geological hazards.

September 2025

This book is intended not only as a university-level textbook but also as a resource for geoscientists across multiple disciplines. The relationship between plate tectonics and intracontinental tectonics, intracontinental orogeny, and various mantle flow patterns are thoroughly explored.

September 2025

Explaining the Earth is written for readers without a scientific background. It’s an accessible and concise overview, perfectly suited to the increasing interdisciplinary interest in the Earth sciences, and to general readers with a curiosity about the planet’s composition, environments and systems.

September 2025

A Tectonic History of the Earth provides a comprehensive exploration of the dynamic geological forces that have shaped our planet over the past 4,500 million years. Written for Earth science scholars and students, this book recounts the history of the tectonic and magmatic events that accompanied these changes in crustal architecture, and explains how they may be integrated into the world-wide system of convection currents responsible for the transfer of heat from the interior of the Earth to its periphery.

September 2025

Over the past several decades, computational advances have revolutionized seismology, making it possible to simulate seismic wave propagation in complex Earth models and create detailed images of the planet's interior. This cutting-edge text introduces students and scholars to the fundamentals, techniques, and applications of this exciting field of research and discovery.

Uploaded July 2025