Web Directory

» Bartleby.com: Sir Charles Lyell
   Includes etexts of scientific papers, "The Progress of Geology" and "Uniformity of Change".
   http://www.bartleby.com/people/Lyell-Si.html

» Cofrhigeorama
   Provides historical information on geology, mineralogy, petrology and other Earth sciences. In French and English.
   http://babouchka.net/veneux/cofrhigeo/

» GSA History of Geology Division
   Web site includes organization information, as well as several papers on important geologists and their work.
   http://gsahist.org/

» HESS: History of the Earth Sciences Society
   International society devoted to the history of earth sciences. Site has information about the organization and its journal, Earth Sciences History.
   http://historyearthscience.org/

» Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth
   Mathematical details of Lord Kelvin's young earth calculation, from a course in applied fourier analysis. In PDF format.
   http://www.me.rochester.edu/courses/ME201/webexamp/kelvin.pdf

» No Stone Unturned: The First 150 years of the Geological Survey of Canada
   Describes the approval of the geological survey department, which was originally created to find coal ore and later for map making. Page describes the later success in finding other sources of minerals. Local animal and plants species were also recorded.
   http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/hist/150_e.php

» Out of Print Geology Books for sale
   Also including books on paleontology, mineralogy, mining, explorations, early surveys, volcanology, seismology and meteoritics.
   http://geology-books.com/newcatalog.html

» The Great Devonian Controversy
   A review of the book by Martin Rudwick about this 19th century geological controversy.
   http://www.friesian.com/rudwick.htm