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  • The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans’ Decline, by Gillen D’Arcy Wood (2026) Princeton University Press, 328 pp. (hbk/ebook)
  • When Worlds Quake: The Quest to Understand the Interior of Earth and Beyond, by Hrvoje Tkalčić (2026) Princeton University Press, 312 pp. (hbk/ebook)
  • Sedimentary Successions of the Arctic Region and their Hydrocarbon Prospectivity, Sergey Drachev et al. (2025) Geological Sociey Memoir 57, 1124 pp. (pbk)
  • Soil Resource Considerations Part 1: Identification, by Neil Humphries (2025) The Institute of Quarrying, 162 pp. (pbk)
  • Space Journal: The Art and Science of Cosmic Exploration, by Dallas Campbell (2026) Thames & Hudson, 288 pp. (hbk)
  • The Oldest Rocks on Earth: A Search for the Origins of Our World, by Simon Lamb (2026) Columbia University Press, 352 pp. (pbk/hbk/ebook)
  • Quantitative Geomorphology in the Artificial intelligence Era: Applications of AI for Earth and Environmental Change, by Hamid Reza Pourghasemi and Narges Kariminejad (2025) Elsevier, 410 pp. (pbk/ebook)
  • Tectonic Geodynamics, by Thorsten Becker and Claudio Faccenna (2025) Princeton University Press, 872 pp. (hbk/ebook)
  • The Stones of Britain: A History of Britain Through its Geology, by Jon Cannon (2025) Constable, 400 pp. (pbk/hbk/ebook)
  • Living with Thunder: Exploring the Geologic Past, Present, and Future of the Pacific Northwest (Second Edition), by Ellen Morris Bishop (2025) Oregon State University Press, 304 pp. (pbk)
  • Geology, Tectonics and Natural Resources of Arabia and its Surroundings, by A. Scharf, M. Al-Kindi and A. Racey (2025) Geological Society of London Special Publication 550, 501 pp. (hbk)
  • The Conversation on Extreme Weather, by Jennifer Horney (2025) Johns Hopkins University Press, 316 pp. (pbk/ebook)
  • Strike-Slip Terrains and Transform Margins: Structural Architecture, Thermal Regimes and Petroleum Systems, by Michal Nemčok et al. (2025) Cambridge University Press, 733 pp. (hbk/ebook)
  • Theoretical and Computational Seismology, by Jeroen Tromp (2025) Princeton University Press, 600 pp. (hbk/ebook)
  • How to Decarbonize: Policy and Social Theory, by Ross Astoria (2025) Cambridge University Press, 242 pp. (pbk)
  • Climate Changed: Models and the Built World, by Mara Freilich et al. (eds., 2025) Columbia University Press, 248 pp. (pbk/hbk/ebook)
  • Lode Geometry in the Central Wales Orefield, by David James (2024), 340 pp. (hbk)

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