Sixty-six million years ago an asteroid as large as Mt. Everest hit what is now the Yucatan Peninsula at a speed ten times faster than the fastest rifle bullet. Debris from the impact blew into space, re-entered the atmosphere as a swarm of shooting stars that burned the global forests and grasslands, leaving behind a thin global layer containing rock from the asteroid and from Mexico, and smoke from the fires.

Uploaded November 2025

All life is made from CO2 . It was there at earth's birth, and throughout evolution. It has kept our planet habitable for hundreds of millions of years. It has given us all the splendours of the world we know today. And yet it also holds the potential for life's destruction. In this gripping adventure through eras and places, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen tells the story of the world's most important molecule. We travel from the beginning of time all the way up to our present reality, witnessing the staggering journey that CO2 has undertaken.

Uploaded November 2025

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