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The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals by Charles W. Chesterman (excellent field guide)

Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks and Minerals

Simon & Schuster's Guide to Gems and Precious Stones

Gemstones of the World, Revised Edition

Stone 588 by Gerald A. Browne (fiction, but excellent working knowledge of diamond cartels and industry)

3D Geoscience : Computer Techniques for Geological Characterization

Simon W Houlding / Hardcover / Published 1994

Advances in Geophysics: Issues in Atmospheric and Oceanic Modeling Part A

Barry Saltzman / paperback /

Advances in Geophysics : Issues in Atmospheric and Oceanic Modeling Part B
Barry Saltzman / paperback /

Anatomy of Seismograms (Developments in Solid Earth Geophysics
Ota Kulhanek / Hardcover

Anisotrophy in Geoelectromagnetism ( Methods in Geochemistry and Geophysics, v 28

J.G.Negi, P.D. Saraf / Hardcover /

Antarctic Geoscience : Symposium on Antarctic Geology and Geophysics
Cambell Craddock / Hardcover

Applied Geophysics
W.Telford / Paperback /

Active Tectonics : Earthquakes, Uplift, and Landscape
Edward A. Keller, Nicholas Pinter / Paperback / 1996

Age Determination of Young Rocks and Artifacts
Gunther A Wagner, S. Schiegl / Hardcover / 1998

The Amateur Geologist : Explorations and Investigations
Ray Wiggers, Raymond Wiggers / School & Library Binding / 1993

The Amber Book
Ake Dahlstrom, et al / Hardcover / 1997

Applied Hydrology for Scientist and Engineers : Unsaturated Zone Hydrology
Zekai Sen, Sekai Sen / Hardcover / 1995

Applied Mathematics for Earth Scientist ( Mathematical Approaches to Geophysics)
T.Rikitake,et al / Hardcover /

Applied Seismic Wave Theory (Advances in Exploration Geophysics)
A.J. Berhout / Hardcover /

Basic Exploration Geophysics
Edwin S. Robinson, Cahit Coruh / Paperback /

T.rex and the Crator of Doom
Walter Alvarez / hardcover / 1997

Applied Geophysics in Hydrogeological and Engineering Practice
William E. Kelly, Stanislav Mares (editor) / Hardcover /

The California Desert
Edmund C.Jaeger / paperback /

California Geology
Deborah R. Harden / hardcover / 1997

Cataclysm : Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophie in 9500 B.C.
J.B.Delair,D.S. / Paperback / 1997

Catastrophism : Asteroids, comets, and other Dynamic Events in Earth History
Richard Huggett / Paperback / 1998

Children's Atlas of Earth Through Time
Elizabeth G. Fagan / Hardcover /

Coastal Evolution : Late Quaternary Shoreline Morphodynamics
R.W.G. Carter (editor) C.D. Woodroffe (editor) / paperback / 1997

Color Atlas of Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section
W.S. MacKenzie, A.E. Adams / paperbook / 1994

A Colour Guide to Paleosols
Gregory J. Retallack, Greg Retallack / Paperback / 1997

Coming Earth Changes : The Latest Evidence
William Hutton / Paperback / 1996

Computational Engineering Geology
Edward Derringh / paperback / 1998

Creataceous-Tertiary Mass Extinctions : Biotic and Environmental Changes
Norman Maclead (editor), et al / Paperback / 1996

Dana's Minerals and How to Study Them
Cornrlius S. Hurlbut, et al / Paperback /1998

Deep Injection Disposal of Hazardous & Industrial Waste : Scientific & Engineering Aspects
John A Apps (editor), Chin-Fu Tsang (editor) / Hardcover / 1996

Deserts (Habitats)
Julia Waterlow / Library Binding / 1995

Dinosaurs Heresies - New Theories
Robert T.Bakker

Dinosaur Imagery
John Lanzendorf (creator) Philip J. Currie, Micheal Tropea (photo)Charles R. Crumly
(editor)

Dictionary of Geologic Terms
Robert L. Bates, Julia A. Jackson (editor) / Paperback

Earthquakes
Bruce A. Bolt / Paperback / 1993

Earth Science Curriculum Activities Kit
Robert Hoehn / Paperback / 1991

Environmental Geophysics : A Practical Guide (Environmental Engineering)
Dieter Vogelsang, et al / Hardcover / 1994

Exploration Geophysics of the Shallow Subsurface/Book and 2 Disks
Henry Robert Burger, et al / Hardcover / 1992

Historical Atlas of the Earth : A Visual Exploration of the Earth's Physical Past
Roger Osborne, Stephen Gould / Hardcover /1996

Atlas of Rock-Forming Minerals in Thin Section
W.S. MacKenzie, C. Guilford / Paperback /

Basic Geological Mapping(Geological Society of London Professional Handbook)
John Wykeham Barnes / Paperback / 1995

Basics of Physical Stratigraphy and Sedimentology
William J. Fritz, et al / Paperback /

Fundamentals of Geophysics
William Lowie / Paperback / 1997

How The Earth Works ( children )
John Farndon, et al / Hardcover / 1994

Hydrothermal Experimental Techniques
Gene Carleton Ulmer, Hubert Lloyod Barnes(contributor) / Paperback /

An Introduction To Applied and Environmental Geophysics
John M. Reynolds / Paperback / 1996

Introduction to the Physics of Rocks
Yves Gueguen, Victor Palciauskas / Hardcover / 1994

The Magnetic Field of the Earth : Paleomagnetism,the core, and the Deep Mantle
Ronald T. Merrill,et al / Hardcover / 1996

Modern Global Seismology
Thorne Lay, Terry C. Wallace (editor) / hardcover / 1995

Naked Earth : The New Geophysics
Shawna Vogel / paperback /1996

Paleoseismotology
James McCalpin (editor) /Hardcover /1996

Petrogenesis of Metamorphic Rocks
K. Bucher, et al / Paperback / 1994

Structure and Fate of Subducting Slabs
Thorne Lay / Paperback / 1996

The Tao of Physics : An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics
and Eastern Mysticism

Fritjof Capra / Paperback / 2000
suggested reading

Things Maps Don't Tell Us : An Adventure into Map Interpretation
Armin K. Lobeck, Armin K. Lobek /Paperback / 1993

 

 

Doc's Picks
Stone 588
Gerald A. Brown
Though a work of fiction, this novel gives an excellent working knowledge of the diamond cartels and industry.

 

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