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• CK-12 Earth Science for High School (c2011), by Dana Desonie (PDF at archive.org)
• New Theory of the Earth (2007), by Don L. Anderson (PDF files at Caltech)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Lately Tortured Earth: Exoterrestrial Forces and Quantavolutions in the Earth Sciences, by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
• Fossils, Rocks, and Time, by Lucy E. Edwards and John Pojeta (illustrated HTML at USGS)

• The Encyclopedia of Earth (continuously updated online edition) (illustrated HTML at eol.org)

• The Traveller: or, A Description of Various Wonders in Nature and Art (London: Religious Tract Society, 1839) (page images at Google)

• Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences (partial serial archives)
• Advances in Geosciences (Germany: Copernicus Publications, 2003-) (full serial archives)
• Geodiversitas (1997-) (full serial archives)
• Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences (partial serial archives)
• Scientific Reports (London: Nature Publishing Group, 2011-) (full serial archives)

• The Geology of Yemen: An Annotated Bibliography of Yemen's Geology, Geography and Earth Science (2012), by Robert Lee Hadden (PDF at dtic.mil)

• Fieldiana: Geology (partial serial archives)
• Geological Series (Field Museum) (full serial archives)
• Mémoires de la Société Fribourgeoise des Sciences Naturelles: Géologie et Géographie (full serial archives)
• Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology (full serial archives)
• Autobiography of Earth (New York: Coward-McCann, 1935), by John Hodgdon Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ABC of Geology (written under "Allison Hardy" pseudonym; New York: Vanguard Press, ca. 1927), by Vance Randolph (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Äquatorfrage in der Geologie (in German; Steyl: Missionsdruckerei, 1902), by Damian Kreichgauer
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Discourse on the Revolutionary Upheavals on the Surface of the Earth (in English and French, based on the third edition), by Georges Cuvier, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• The Elements of Geology (ca.1906), by William Harmon Norton (Gutenberg text)
• Elements of Geology: or, the Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants, As Illustrated by Geological Monuments (6th edition; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1866), by Charles Lyell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Essay on the Theory of the Earth (with additional material; New York: Kirk and Mercein, 1818), by Georges Cuvier, contrib. by Robert Jameson and Samuel L. Mitchill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Landscape in History, and Other Essays (London and New York: Macmillan, 1905), by Archibald Geikie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Principles of Geology (3 volumes, 1830), by Charles Lyell (PDF files at esp.org)
• The Student's Elements of Geology (ca.1870), by Charles Lyell (Gutenberg text)
• Time and Change, by John Burroughs (Gutenberg text)
• Town Geology, by Charles Kingsley (Gutenberg text)
• Discourses: Biological and Geological Essays, by Thomas Henry Huxley (Gutenberg text)
• La Religion en Face de la Science (2 volumes in 3, in French; 1881-1883), by Alexis Arduin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mi Viaje Alrededor del Mundo (Spanish edition of "The Voyage of the Beagle"; 2 volumes in 1; Valencia and Madrid: F. Sempere y Co., ca. 1903), by Charles Darwin, trans. by Constantino Piquer
  • both books: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Book 1: page images in Spain
  • Book 2 (from a different edition): page images in Spain
• The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin
  • HTML at esp.org
  • Gutenberg text
• The Voyage of the Beagle (Harvard Classics v29, with introduction and notes; New York: P.F. Collier, 1909), by Charles Darwin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Bartleby
• The Voyage of the Beagle (based on the eleventh edition of 1890, reprinted 1913), by Charles Darwin (Gutenberg text)
• Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy (new edition; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1871), by Charles Darwin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle (illustrated edition; London: John Murray, 1890), by Charles Darwin (illustrated HTML and page images at Charles Darwin Online)
• The Story of Evolution, by Joseph McCabe (Gutenberg text)

• Das Rückwärtseinschneiden im Raum (dissertation in German; Zürich: A.-G. Gebr. Leemann und Co., 1933), by Gustav Volkart (PDF at ETH Zurich)

• Instability in Geophysical Flows (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), by William D. Smyth and Jeffrey R. Carpenter (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge University Press)
• Theory of the Earth (Boston: Blackwell Scientific Publications, c1989), by Don L. Anderson (PDF files at Caltech)
• Elastic Waves in Layered Media (Lamont Geological Observatory contribution #189; New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1957), by W. Maurice Ewing, Wenceslas S. Jardetzky, and Frank Press (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oceanic New York (Brooklyn: Punctum Books, c2015), by Steve Mentz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Applied Hydrology (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1949), by Ray K. Linsley, Max Adam Kohler, and Joseph L. H. Paulhus (page images at HathiTrust)

• Introduction to Physical Oceanography (revised electronic edition, 2008), by Robert H. Stewart (PDF at colorado.edu)
• The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry, and General Biology (ca.1942), by H. U. Sverdrup, Martin W. Johnson, and Richard H. Fleming (illustrated HTML at UC Press)
• Ocean Sciences, Technology, and the Future International Law of the Sea (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1966), by William T. Burke (PDF at Ohio State)
• Molecular Biology in Marine Science: Scientific Questions, Technological Approaches, and Practical Implications (1994), by National Research Council Ocean Studies Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Physical Geography of the Sea, by Matthew Fontaine Maury (page images at MOA)
• The Practical Oceanographer: A Guide to Working at Sea, by Rick Chapman (HTML and PDF at jhuapl.edu)
• Regional Oceanography: An Introduction, by M. Tomczak and J. Stuart Godfrey (PDF files with commentary in Maine)

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