Walter Geology Library

In the stacks:
History of the Bureau of Economic Geology / W. Keene Ferguson. Bureau of Economic Geology, the University Texas at Austin, 1981.

In the stacks:
The Permian basin : petroleum empire of the Southwest. By Samuel D. Myres. Permian Press, 1973.

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Seashells of North America; a guide to field identification, by R. Tucker Abbott. Illustrated by George F. Sandström. Golden Press 1968.

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Language of the Earth : a literary anthology / edited by Frank H.T. Rhodes, Richard O. Stone and Bruce D. Malamud. Blackwell Pub., 2008.

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The role of women in the history of geology / edited by C. V. Burek and B. Higgs. Geological Society, 2007.

Mapa geológico generalizado del Departamento del Cauca : escala 1:350.000. República de Colombia, Ministerio de Minas y Energía, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Geológico-Mineras, Oficina Regional Popayan, 1979. 93 x 68 cm.

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Eocene biodiversity : unusual occurrences and rarely sampled habitats / edited by Gregg F. Gunnell. Plenum Publishers, 2001.

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Narratives and journeys in rock art : a reader / edited by George Nash and Aron Mazel. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2018.

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KOBIE / Grupo Espeleológico Vizcaíno, Diputación de Vizcaya. El Grupo, 1975.

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Early earthquakes of the Americas / Robert L. Kovach. Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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Moa : the life and death of New Zealand's legendary bird / Quinn Berentson. Craig Potton Publishing, 2012.

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It's raining frogs and fishes : four seasons of natural phenomena and oddities of the sky / Jerry Dennis ; drawings by Glenn Wolff. HarperCollins, 1992.

New books:
Field guides to exceptionally exposed carbonate outcrops / edited by V. Paul Wright, Giovanna Della Porta. International Association of Sedimentologists, 2021.

Welcome back!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/08/24/italy-volcano-eruption-phlegraean-fields/

Europe’s most dangerous volcano rumbles, and Italians weigh the risk As the Phlegraean Fields volcano awakens, scientists debate the peril posed by a monster thought to have caused the most violent eruption of pre-historic Europe.

New books:
Earth's natural hazards and disasters / Bethany D. Hinga. Wiley-American Geophysical Union, 2024.

New books:
Alfvén waves across heliophysics : progress, challenges, and opportunities / Andreas Keiling, editor. American Geophysical Union, 2024.

In the stacks:
The water seekers / Remi A. Nadeau. Crest Publishers, 1997.

New books:
The UNESCO global geoparks / edited by Robert Klanten and Laura Allsop. Paris UNESCO, 2024.

In the stacks:
Minéraux, roches, fossiles de Méditerranée / Yves Dutour, Thierry Tortosa, Éric Turini. Édisud, 2010.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240816-california-earthquakes-why-the-los-angeles-basin-is-like-a-bowl-of-jelly

The weird way the Los Angeles basin alters earthquakes Southern California has been shaken by two recent earthquakes. The way they were experienced in Los Angeles has a lot to do with the sediment-filled basin the city sits upon.

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/18/nx-s1-5080562/13600-year-old-mastodon-skull-iowa

A 13,600-year-old mastodon skull is unearthed in an Iowa creek The University of Iowa’s Office of the State Archaeologist said a 12-day excavation yielded “several mastodon bones,” primarily from the skull. Mastodons are distant cousins of elephants.

Making the rounds: https://www.science.org/content/article/dino-killing-asteroid-came-beyond-jupiter?

Dino-killing asteroid came from beyond Jupiter Trace metals found at extinction layer implicate rare, carbon-rich type of meteorite

In the stacks:
Ancient landscapes of the Grand Canyon region; the geology of Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce, Petrified forest, and Painted desert, by Edwin D. McKee. E.D. McKee, 1931.

In the stacks:
The making of a land : geology of Norway / edited by Ivar B. Ramberg. Norsk Geologisk Forening, 2008.

In the stacks:
Field geophysics.4th ed. / John Milsom, Asger Eriksen. Wiley, 2011.

In the stacks:
English Wealden fossils / edited by David J. Batten. Palaeontological Association, 2011.

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International handbook of earthquake and engineering seismology. edited by William H.K. Lee. Academic Press, 2002.

In the stacks:
Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the world of H.M.S. "Beagle" under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. / by Charles Darwin. J. Murray, 1913.

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Catalogue of index Foraminifera, by Brooks F. Ellis and Angelina R. Messina. American Museum of Natural History, 1965-67.