Geology Merit Badge Resources
The following videos provide help for Requirement
4 of the Geology Merit Badge. The
first describes several geoscience careers using mine as an example. The second is a description of a
couple of projects I have worked on, including a current archaeological
project. The Geology Merit Bage Pamphlet is your
first resource for this merit badge. This book list is found in the back of
the pamphlet. Other resources will be added below as time permits.
Altman, Linda Jacobs, 2012, The
California Gold Rush, Enslow Publishers Inc. Dixon, Dougal, 1992, The
Practical Geologist, Simon and Schuster Inc. Erickson, Jon, 2002, Historical
Geology, Facts on File Inc. Gaines, R., H. Skinner, E. Foord, B.
Maxon, and A. Rosenweig, 1997, Dana's New Mineralogy,
Wiley-Interscience. Hyne, Norman J., Ph.D., 2012, Nontechnical
Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling, and Production,
PennWell Corp. Johnson, Carl, 1994, Fire
on the Mountain, Chronicle Books. Lamb, Simon, and David Sington, 2003, The
Forces That Have Shaped Our Planet, Princeton University Press. Lambert, David, and the Diagram Group,
2006, The Field Guide to Geology, Checkmark Books. Pough, Frederick H., 1998, Rocks
and Minerals, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Redfern, Martin, 1999, Planet
Earth, Kingfisher Publications. Thompson, Graham R., Ph.D., and
Jonathan Turk, Ph.D., 1998, Introduction to Physical Geology,
Harcourt Brace College Publishers. VanCleave, Janice, 1996, Rocks
and Minerals, John Wiley and Sons Inc.
The following resources are not found
in the Geology Merit Badge Pamphlet but may be useful. Robinson, G.D., A.A. Wanek, W.H. Hays
and M.E. McCallum, 1964, Philmont Country: The Rocks and
Lanscape of a Famous New Mexico Ranch, USGS Professional Paper
505, US Government Printing Office, Washington D.C. Scoutles Geology MB is a
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