Geology History

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    • Written by: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Bill Bryson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2010-04-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 731 ratings
    • A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson’s quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....

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    • The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
    • Written by: Robert M. Hazen
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2012-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 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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    • Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them
    • Written by: Donald R. Prothero
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 2020-05-05
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 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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    • The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
    • Written by: Ed Conway
    • Narrated by: Ed Conway
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2023-11-07
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 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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    • The American West and Its Disappearing Water
    • Written by: Marc Reisner
    • Narrated by: Joe Spieler, Kate Udall
    • Length: 27 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 2018-01-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruptions and intrigue....

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    • Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
    • Written by: Andrew H. Knoll
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2021-04-27
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 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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    • A World History
    • Written by: Mark Kurlansky
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2021-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 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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    • How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
    • Written by: Marcia Bjornerud
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2018-09-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 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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    • How Earth's History Shaped Human History
    • Written by: Lewis Dartnell
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2019-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 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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    • The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883
    • Written by: Simon Winchester
    • Narrated by: Simon Winchester
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2004-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa - the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster - was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly 40,000 people....

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    • William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
    • Written by: Simon Winchester
    • Narrated by: Simon Winchester
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 2004-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Electromagnetic Force that Created the Modern World - and Could Destroy It
    • Written by: Alanna Mitchell
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2018-01-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • An engrossing history of the science of one of the four fundamental physical forces in the universe, electromagnetism, right up to the latest indications that the poles are soon to reverse....

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    • Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • Written by: DK
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2019-12-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Exploring more than 80 of the world's most scientific theories and big ideas across the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, geology, and math, this audiobook offers a fascinating look at the history of science....

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    • Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey That Changed the Way We See the World
    • Written by: Gerard Helferich
    • Narrated by: Ray Childs
    • Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2010-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The thrilling story of the charismatic explorer who Simon Bolivar called "the true discoverer of South America" and the daring expedition that altered the course of science....

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    • The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
    • Written by: Stephen Jay Gould
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2023-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
    • Written by: Natalie Angier
    • Narrated by: Nike Doukas
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2007-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Buckle up for a joy ride through physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy....

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    • Written by: Craig Childs
    • Narrated by: Craig Childs
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 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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    • What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth's Tumultuous History and Perilous Future
    • Written by: Paul Bierman
    • Narrated by: David Marantz
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2024-08-20
    • Language: English
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    • Changes in Greenland reverberate around the world, with ice melting high in the arctic affecting people everywhere. Bierman explores how losing Greenland's ice will catalyze devastating events if we don't change course and address climate change now.

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    • A Secret History of the Urban Age
    • Written by: Annalee Newitz
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2021-02-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 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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    • Written by: David R. Montgomery
    • Narrated by: Gary Telles
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2013-05-14
    • Language: English
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    • How the mystery of the Bible's greatest story shaped geology: a MacArthur Fellow presents a surprising perspective on Noah's Flood....

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