New Books
December 13, 2025
>> By Thorsten Becker and Claudio Faccenna
Integrating tectonics, structural geology, and geodynamics in a single volume, this textbook brings together geophysical and geological approaches to understand the physical processes that shape the planet’s evolution, from mantle convection to orogeny and earthquakes. It was published by Princeton University Press in November 2025.
>> Climate Dynamics, 2nd Edition
By Kerry H. Cook
Written with math, science and engineering students in mind, this textbook provides a strong foundation in the physical understanding of Earth’s climate — no previous climate studies experience is required. This second edition includes updated information on hydrology, the cryosphere, contemporary climate change and climate prediction. It was published by Princeton University Press in February 2025.
>> A Field Guide to the Macroscopic Fossils of the Lower Walnut Formation, Travis County, Texas
By Stacie Skwarcan, Christopher J. Bell, Christopher Garvie and Lisa Boucher
This pocket-sized guidebook illustrates and briefly describes all the macroscopic invertebrate groups that have been previously reported from the Bee Cave Member of the Lower Walnut Formation. This fossil-rich geologic unit was deposited in a shallow marine environment during the Cretaceous and has outcrops in the Austin area. Fossils from the unit include sponges, sea urchins, worm burrows and mollusks. The specimens featured in the guidebook are curated at the Non-vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory at the Jackson School of Geosciences. The book was published in June 2025.
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