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Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth
Marcia Bjornerud
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Description for Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth
Paperback. For readers of John McPhee and Stephen Jay Gould, this engaging armchair guide to the making of the rock record shows how to understand messages written in stone Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: RBGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 274. The Autobiography of the Earth. 256 pages. Shows how to understand messages written in stone. This work takes the reader along on a tour of Deep Time, explaining what we see and feel beneath our feet. It shows us how our planet has long maintained a delicate balance, and how the global give-and-take has sustained life on Earth through numerous upheavals. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: RBGG. Dimension: 202 x 140 x 15. Weight: 246.
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 and feel beneath our feet. Both scientist and storyteller, Bjornerud uses anecdotes and metaphors to remind us that our home is a living ... Read more
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 and feel beneath our feet. Both scientist and storyteller, Bjornerud uses anecdotes and metaphors to remind us that our home is a living ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Basic Books
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780465006847
SKU
V9780465006847
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About Marcia Bjornerud
Marcia Bjornerud is a Professor and Chair of Geology at Lawrence University. She is a Fellow of the Geographical Society of America, and was a 2000-2001 Fulbright Scholar. She lives in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Reviews for Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth
"Bjornerud has a rare talent for explaining scientific ideas clearly with intriguing and helpful analogies, similes and metaphors." Nature"