This book tells children about geology which literally means
the study of the Earth, about people who search for minerals, and many other things.

Translated by Graham Whittaker
Drawings by Andrei Platonov

All credits to Guptaji

You can get the book here and here

CONTENTS

1. Who are geologists? What is geology? 7
People in the mountains 7
Geology? What is it? Look around.10

2. The Earth’s storehouses
What are mineral deposits? 14
What colour is coal? 14
Let me tell you about cement 18
Black gold 18
Water, water, everywhere 22
The sun-stone 26

3. The science of the Earth
The secrets of our planet 30
How was our planet formed? 34
Where do mountains, seas and plains come from? 38
The Earth’s great masters 42
How they work 42
Underground cities 46

4. How geologists work
Mysterious traces 50
How oil was found 50
Where did you find these flowers? 54
Attention! Detonate! 54
Journey into the depths of the Earth 55
The scout in the sky 58