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41) Fault line
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
When Salt Lake City is hit with a major earthquake on the eve of the Winter Olympics, Em Hansen is sent in by the FBI to investigate the murder of a state-employed geologist just hours after the disaster.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Nergui, the former head of the Serious Crimes Team in Ulan Baatar, Mongolia, along with his replacement, Doripalam, need all the help they can get to catch a serial killer. Drew McLeish, an experienced British investigating officer, is sent from England to lend his expertise to the investigation. The kidnapping of McLeish leads Nergui to suspect that the slayings are the work of more than one person, and the butchery conceals an agenda far more terrifying...
43) The Wave
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Norwegian
Description
The experienced geologist Kristian Eikfjord has accepted a job offer out of town. He is getting ready to move from the city of Geiranger with his family, when he and his colleagues measure small geological changes in the underground. Kristian gets worried and his worst nightmare is about to come true, when the alarm goes off and the disaster is inevitable. With less than 10 minutes to react, it becomes a race against time in order to save as many...
45) Earth colors
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Asked to investigate a famed painting that may be a counterfeit, forensic geologist Em Hansen discovers that she is on the trail of a murderer when her client begins to suffer the effects of poisoning.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya. Michael Spender was the first to draw a detailed map of the North Face of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers--W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender--achieved literary fame, they vied to be included on an expedition that would deliver Everest's summit to an Englishman, a quest that had become a metaphor for Britain's struggle to maintain power over India. To this rivalry was added another:...
Author
Publisher
Pi Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In the centre of the American West lies one of the greatest natural wonders of the world, the Grand Canyon. How it came about has for centuries been clouded in mystery. Only in the last few years has a consensus begun to emerge and now, James Laurence Powell tells the story of how the mystery was solved.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The story starts with William Smith's early years, from apprentice to surveyor for hire, and from publication of his groundbreaking 1815 geological strata map to imprisonment for debt. Smith's 1799 geological map of Bath and table of strata, his first strata map of England and Wales, published in 1801, and photographs of some of Smith's collection of 2,000 fossils illustrate the tale. The remainder of the book is organized into four parts, each beginning...
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This book explores the famous clash between two high-profile scientists over a consequential question: Is California earthquake country? Set in the first half of the twentieth century, when seismology was still in in its infancy, this debate had life-or-death consequences for the millions of people migrating west. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, people wanted to know: Is it safe? And how can we best prepare for the next big one? Susan Hough...
Author
Series
Pioneers of British Columbia volume 10
Publisher
UBC Press
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
53) The great quake: how the biggest earthquake in North America changed our understanding of the planet
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
1190L
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in recorded history in North America--the 1964 Alaskan earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and obliterated the coastal village of Chenega--and the scientist sent to look for geological clues to explain the dynamics of earthquakes, who helped to confirm the then controversial theory of plate tectonics. On March 27, 1964, at 5:36 p.m., the biggest...
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Quake Chasers: 15 women rocking earthquake science explores the lives of 15 diverse, contemporary female scientists with a variety of specialties related to earthquake science. With tenacity, intellect, and innovation, these women have crushed obstacles in society, in the lab, and out in the field. Their accomplishments leave aftershocks as they work toward revealing answers to the many riddles that lie behind earthquakes, saving lives by teaching...
