Free Geology Textbooks

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LibreTexts - Geosciences

Geosciences Bookshelf

Physical Geology

• Introduction to Physical Geology by Shulman.

• Fundamentals of Geology by Schulte.

• Introduction to Earth Science, 2^nd edition (from Virginia Tech) by Neser.

• An Introduction to Geology, by Johnson, Affolter, Inkenbrandt, and Mosher.

  • Metamorphic rocks lineation and foliation.

• Physical Geology "H5P" edition by Panchuk.

  • Based on Physical Geology, 2nd ed by Earle.

Physical Geology Lab Activities

• The Story of Earth - An Observational Guide.

  • Sedimentary Structures

  • Stratigraphy

• A Practical Guide to Introductory Geology

Historical Geology

• Historical Geology

  • Stratigraphy: Reading the Pages of Earth History

  • Using primary sedimentary structures to interpret ancient environments

  • Facies

Other

• Geology of California

• Geology of National Parks

Mineralogy and Petrology

Dexter Perkins - University of North Dakota

Homepage of Dexter Perkins with links. But also linked below ↓.

• Mineralogy

• Optical Mineralogy

• Petrology

• Opticalmin - an image library of minerals in thin section.

• GeoDIL - a library of geological photos.

• Rocks and Minerals - a library of hundreds of 3-d rotatable and scalable models of fossils, rocks and minerals.

Structural Geology

• Geological Structures - A Practical Introduction by Waldron and Snyder.

• Stereonets.

Stratigraphy and Sedimentation

• Sedimentary Geology: Rocks, Environments, and Stratigraphy

  • Sedimentary Structures

Samizdat Press

• Samizdat Press at Colorado School of Mines. Geophysics books.

A Google Drive of Geology Books

Some google drive out there has a lot of books/references: Geology Textbooks - Google Drive. I don't know the origin of it, but it's there.