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4) Skeleton sea
Author
Series
Forensic geology volume 4
Publisher
Toni Dwiggins
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A mystery at sea plunges forensic geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws into deadly waters. When a boat is found deserted off the California coast, it looks to be a simple fishing accident. But there is nothing ordinary going on here. The geologists track the strange incident to an even stranger project. Someone with toxic skills is at work in this sea. Cassie and Walter are forensic pros--but they are up against a master in an undersea world...
Author
Series
Forensic geology volume 3
Publisher
Toni Dwiggins
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"NO WAY OUT--so says the note in the pocket of the murdered mayor. The volcano beneath her town is seething, and the town's fate now rests in the hands of an emergency planner with a twisted agenda. The mayor's death is personal for investigators Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws. This is their hometown. They are desperate to save their families and friends. Their field is forensic geology, and they know how to track mineral clues to find out where...
6) Badwater
Author
Series
Forensic geology volume 2
Publisher
Toni Dwiggins
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Death Valley earns its name when a terrorist threatens to unleash lethal radioactive toxins--in America's most fragile national park. Forensic geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws embark on a perilous mission to find and stop the terrorist. But this hunt pushes them to their limits. The summer desert is brutal. The material they seek is hotter than the desert in August--and they are each particularly vulnerable to its effects. As the hunt...
7) Quicksilver
Author
Series
Forensic geology volume 1
Publisher
Toni Dwiggins
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"A young man disappears in the California gold country. He leaves behind a gold-flecked rock and a vial of toxic mercury. He is a misfit in the modern world, a throwback to Gold Rush days. A hotshot venture capitalist--whose gold country is Silicon Valley--hires forensic geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws to track his missing brother. The geologists are hooked by the story of this lost man, this wounded soul. And they have the skills to find...
Author
Series
Horizon volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
The journey through the rift becomes even rockier as the survivors are forced to take to the water, crossing a vast deepwater basin on improvised boats. To make it, Molly and the others must work together, but a rift of a different kind is forming among the survivors. If they aren't careful, it could eat them alive.
9) Megafault
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"In West Virginia, Charley "Boomer" Baxter is supervising the placement of mountaintop-removal explosives. As he detonates the TNT, a massive earthquake liquefies the terrain. Within hours, Dr. Amy Lane, a government seismologist, arrives at the epicenter. Amy determines that the initial quake has exposed a deep seismic fault that runs across the center of the North American continent and threatens to tear the world in half. Now, Amy and Boomer must...
10) Liferaft
Author
Series
Horizon volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
"The way home. The spires. They've been looming in the distance, watching silently as the young survivors of Aero Horizon Flight 16 crossed a gauntlet of surreal and dangerous landscapes. After weeks of hardship, Molly and her friends have reached the eerie structure they spotted at the start of their journey, all in a desperate bid that it will provide answers about their ordeal...and perhaps a way home. Here the survivors will finally learn the...
Author
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating mix of medicine, geology, and personal struggle as a young woman physician seeks to remake herself, working at a clinic on the edge of the Grand Canyon. Well-paced and full of unexpected twists and charms, this novel celebrates science, our natural world, and the true depth of relationships."
12) River run
Author
Series
Forensic geology volume 5
Publisher
Toni Dwiggins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"There are plenty of ways to die in the Grand Canyon. Forensic geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws investigate one way: trouble on the canyon's Colorado River. Stranded raft. Live vests unused. Rafters missing. The only clue to the fate of the rafters is a bag of pebbles caught by the bow line. Following that clue, the geologists uncover a hellish scheme. Not only are the rafters in peril, but the river itself is under attack. The race to...
14) Killer dust
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Reassessing her life after two failed relationships, forensic geologist Em Hansen learns that elusive boyfriend Jack Sampler is investigating a deadly cloud of dust moving into Florida that may be the work of sinister forces.
16) 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
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 590L
Language
English
Description
Tall Pine, Spotted Beetle, and Hummingbird are certain that being a rock is boring until Old Rock shares what he has seen and done since he first flew out of a volcano.
19) Ice age
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Twenty thousand years ago, as the Earth was being overrun with glaciers, Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger, Sid the sloth, and the human baby Scrat become a courageous quartet braving the frozen terrain and embarking on an incredible journey to return Scrat to human civilization.
20) 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.
