Over the winter break, I finished reading the textbook Petrology by Harvey Blatt, Robert Tracy, and Brent Owens. "Petrology" is the branch of geology that is the study of rocks. (A lot of people coming into an introductory geology class for the first time think that geology is the study of rocks, but of course it is not. Geology is the study of the planet Earth.) This is a sure sign of me being a geology geek, but I really enjoyed it. The igneous section was least enlightening, but I really enjoyed the sedimentary section and the metamorphic section. I learned a bunch of new things about limestones, bentonites, the Barrovian sequence of metamorphism, and other fun stuff. It's in the Annandale branch of the NOVA library. If you've had at least one semester of geology and want to learn more about a specific rock type, I recommend it.

Labels: books, geology