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Roadside Geology -- this is an excellent series, combining general geologic information with detailed road trips (sometimes in your home city), that describe a state's geology. The books offer general geological information that you can read at home, but are most useful for the detailed descriptions and tours they describe for your state.
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Roadside Geology of Oregon |
Roadside Geology of Washington 
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| Roadside Geology of Wyoming |
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Annals of the Former World
- John
McPhee
describes geology in lucid terms, and makes the topic come alive.
This book is structured as a journey across the US at the 40th parallel,
describing the geology as he travels, but it becomes much more than just a
bare scientific description. McPhee is one of our best writers. I've read many of McPhee's
articles in the New Yorker that form the basis of this book, and they're
excellent. Oddly, the only books that envision the power of tectonic events as well are the Mars Trilogy of Kim Stanley Robinson |
| George Orwell describes a boarding house kitchen table in geological terms:
At the bottom there was a layer of old newspapers stained by Worcester Sauce;
above that a sheet of sticky white oilcloth; above that a green serge cloth;
above that a coarse linen cloth, never changed and seldom taken off. Generally
the crumbs from breakfast were still on the table at supper. I used to get to
know individual crumbs by sight and watch their progress up and down the table
from day to day.
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