Bjornerud, M., 2005, Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth, Westview Press, Cambridge, MA, 237 pp.
Fortey, R. A., 2004, The Earth, An Intimate History, HarperCollins, London, 509 pp.
Hazen, R. M., 2012, The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet, Viking, New York, 306 pp.
Kious, J., & R. I. Tilling, 1996, The Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics, US Geological Survey, Washington, DC, http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/dynamic.html.
Macdougall, J. D., 1996, A Short History of Planet Earth: Mountains, Mammals, Fire, and Ice, Wiley, New York, 266 pp.
Morton, J. L., 2004, Strata: The Remarkable Life Story of William Smith, the Father of English Geology, new edition, Brocken Spectre, Horsham, UK, 171 pp.
Powell, J., 2001, Mysteries of Terra Firma: The Age and Evolution of the Earth, Free Press, New York, 256 pp.
Winchester, S., & S. Vannithone, 2001, The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, HarperCollins, New York, 329 pp.
Maps
AAPG, 1968, Pacific Southwest Region Geological Highway Map (California, Nevada). AAPG, Tulsa, OK.
Color-coded Continents!, US Geological Survey. (Reconstructions of color-coded continental motions from 620 million years ago through the present; maps from C. Scotese.)
Earth Viewer, by BioInteractive at Howard Hughes Medical Institute. (Free iPad app; an interactive paleogeographic atlas of the world; state and country overlays allows tracking the development of the Western States.)
Tour of Geologic Time, University of California Museum of Paleontology. (Online interactive geologic calendar exhibit.)
Activities
Okland, L., 1991, Paleogeographic mapping, in: R. H. Macdonald, & S. G. Stover, eds., Hands-on Geology: K-12 Activities and Resources, Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), Tula, OK. (Constructing paleogeographic maps for elementary and middle school students.)
Toilet Paper Analogy for Geologic Time, by J. Wenner, in: Teaching Quantitative Skills in the Geosciences, at Resources for Undergraduate Students and Faculty, SERC. (Demonstration of geological time using a 1000 sheet roll of toilet paper.)
Understanding Geologic Time, Texas Memorial Museum at the University of Texas at Austin. (Timeline activity for middle school students.)