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Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth
Marcia Bjornerud
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| #87870 in Books | 2006-10-31 | 2006-10-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.75 x5.25l,.59 | File type: PDF | 256 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| I wish I knew which book would make the perfect next step after this one|By john calkin|I wanted an intro to geology so I could read some tech articles a friend of mine wrote. This is not the book for that, though. Once you settle into it this book becomes a fascinating biography of planet Earth (an autobiography, actually, since all the evidence is gleaned from the Earth itsel|From Publishers Weekly|In this engrossing volume of pop-geology, geologist Bjornerud chronicles the watersheds in Earth's history from the primordial supernova that seeded the nascent solar nebula to the man-made cataclysms of global warming and habitat destruct
To many of us, the Earth's crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, stones are richly illustrated narratives, telling gothic tales of cataclysm and reincarnation. For more than four billion years, in beach sand, granite, and garnet schists, the planet has kept a rich and idiosyncratic journal of its past. Fulbright Scholar Marcia Bjornerud takes the reader along on an eye-opening tour of Deep Time, explaining in elegant prose what we see ...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth | Marcia Bjornerud. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
