Also including books on paleontology, mineralogy, mining, explorations, early surveys, volcanology, seismology and meteoritics.

Provides historical information on geology, mineralogy, petrology and other Earth sciences. In French and English.

A review of the book by Martin Rudwick about this 19th century geological controversy.

Includes etexts of scientific papers, "The Progress of Geology" and "Uniformity of Change".

Brief overview of the development of drift theory. Bibliography. Links to relevant sites

International society devoted to the history of earth sciences. Site has information about the organization and its journal, Earth Sciences History.

The First 150 years of the Geological Survey of Canada.

Mathematical details of Lord Kelvin's young earth calculation, from a course in applied fourier analysis.

Web site includes organization information, as well as several papers on important geologists and their work.