Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Planet Earth.
Rating: 5/5
This book, Understanding Earth, is a wonderful book to read even if you are not taking a course in Geology. If you are interested in the history of the Earth and what's happening today with our glaciers, groundwater, tectonic plates, volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, and more, this is the book to read. The publisher lists it as having 70 pages, but that is an error. There are 567 pages as well as 6 appendices, glossary, and index.
A Great Geology Textbook
Rating: 5/5
This 4th edition of Understanding Earth by Press, Siever, Grotzinger and Jordan is an up-to-the-minute comprehensive review of the history of Earth from the beginning to the present as geologists understand it. It contains 567 pages plus glossary, index and appendices.