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Author
Series
Sapphire brides volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1890s Montana, a daughter who has moved from one mining camp to the next desires stability and love, not the blue stones her father brings home; when a handsome geologist arrives, he offers her new insight and hope"--
1890s. Emily Carver is tired of following her gold-hunting father from one mining camp to another: she wants a home where she can put down roots. When she realizes she's losing her heart to the intriguing new man in their Montana...
Author
Series
Wildlands novels volume 3
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Laura Bickle, the critically acclaimed author of Nine of Stars and Witch Creek, returns with a fiery new chapter in her celebrated Wildlands series. In the Yellowstone backcountry, a merciless source of evil carries a torch for the past Petra Dee and her immortal husband, Gabe, have been trying to gain a toehold in what passes for ordinary life in Temperance, Wyoming a wickedly enchanted land founded generations ago by the alchemist, Lascaris. Petra...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The fascinating story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the world's first geological map and ultimately became the father of modern geology. In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery that was to turn the fledgling science of the history of the earth -- and a central plank of established Christian religion -- on its head. He noticed that the rocks he was excavating...
5) Dead dry
Author
Series
Em Hansen mysteries volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
6) Geologists
Author
Series
Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides information related to becoming a geologist, the education needed, the equipment used, and where they work.
7) Eight below
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
An American geologist flies to Antarctica to participate in a project at the United States Research Base. Once there, he teams up with arctic guide Jerry Shepard and his best friend, Cooper. The scientist soon discovers that Shepard also has eight other valuable friends -- a pack of sled dogs he's worked with for years, who have rescued him from a number of tight spots. As the three men explore a frozen mountain region, an unexpected accident coupled...
Author
Series
Studies in scandal novels volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
LOVE IS THE GREATEST DISCOVERY OF ALL. Geologist Gemma Hastings has no interest in pursuing romanceand no patience for Lord Cameron Lisle, an esteemed fossil hunter who has a way of always honing in on her territory. . .annoyingly handsome though he may be. But when a shocking attack puts Gemma in very real danger, she may have to accept Lisles offers of protection. Even if that means entering into a dangerous flirtation. . . Lisle was once amused...
9) The wave
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Norwegian
Formats
Description
The experienced geologist Kristian Eikfjord has accepted a job offer out of town. He is getting ready to move from the city of Geiranger with his family, when he and his colleagues measure small geological changes in the underground. Kristian gets worried and his worst nightmare is about to come true, when the alarm goes off and the disaster is inevitable. With less than 10 minutes to react, it becomes a race against time in order to save as many...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A rich and exuberant group biography of the early geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history. The birth of geology was fostered initially by gentlemen whose wealth supported their interests, but in the nineteenth century, it was advanced by clergymen, academics, and women whose findings expanded the field. Reading the Rocks brings to life this eclectic cast of characters who brought passion, eccentricity,...
12) The quake
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Norwegian
Description
In 1904 an earthquake shook Oslo. Its epicenter was in the Oslo Rift which runs directly through the Norwegian capital. There are recorded quakes from the rift on a daily basis and geologists cannot be sure, but arguments indicate that people can expect major future earthquakes in this area.
Author
Series
Philip Mercer novels volume 8
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When his mentor is killed while conducting vital underground research into climate change, Philip Mercer launches an effort to find answers and exact vengeance.
14) The explorer King: adventure, science, and the great diamond hoax, Clarence King in the Old West
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Documents the fifty-year career of Thomas Jaggar, the Harvard-educated volcano science pioneer who founded the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, to share insights into his findings about massive volcanoes in such regions as Yellowstone, Alaska, and Hawaii.
16) Rock bottom
Author
Series
Em Hansen mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Rivers, oceans, streams, lakes - it doesn't matter what shape it takes, Em Hansen is terrified of the water. She hasn't shared her phobia with her new husband, Fritz, and when his best friend, Tiny, organizes a month-long, private, white-water rafting trip through the Grand Canyon as a wedding gift, she can't tell him how awful the trip sounds. Fritz and Tiny cobble together a party of fourteen people for the trip, but at the last minute, Tiny finds...
17) Witch Creek
Author
Series
Wildlands novels volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the backcountry of Yellowstone, evil moves below the surface . . . Following Nine of Stars comes the next chapter in Laura Bickle's critically acclaimed Wildlands series. As the daughter of an alchemist, Petra Dee has battled supernatural horrors and experienced astonishing wonders. But theres no magic on earth that can defeat her recent cancer diagnosis, or help find her missing husband, Gabriel. Still, she would bet all her remaining days that...
19) Vulcan's forge
Author
Series
Philip Mercer novels volume 1
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
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Description
Beneath the Pacific Ocean a volcano surges upward, carrying in its fiery heart a mineral more powerful than uranium. When the volcano breaks the ocean's surface, nations will battle to control what is known as Vulcan's Forge -- a source of limitless, clean, nuclear power. The secret of Vulcan's Forge begins to unravel when Mercer, a man of many talents now working for the US Geologic Survey, learns that the daughter of an old friend is in danger....
20) Gunshot Road
Author
Series
Emily Tempest investigations volume 2
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Emily Tempest is appointed Aboriginal Community Police Officer for the Moonlight Downs station. Investigating the possible murder of an elderly geologist, she encounters Danny, an emotionally fragile Stonehouse mob teenager who is traumatized by the image of "poison flowing green." The terrain of Australia, a Japanese rock garden painter, a rash of unexplained illnesses and the implausibility of two elderly friends killing each other present Emily...
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