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Reading the Rocks The Autobiography of the Earth

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By: Marcia Bjornerud(Author)
256 pages, illustrations
Publisher: Basic Books
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  • Reading the Rocks ISBN: 9780465006847 Paperback Oct 2006 Out of Print #243668
  • Reading the Rocks ISBN: 9780813342498 Hardback Apr 2005 Out of Print #155358
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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 thing with lessons to teach. Containing a glossary and detailed timescale, as well as vivid descriptions and historic accounts, Reading the Rocks is literally a history of the world, for all friends of the Earth.

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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.

Out of Print
By: Marcia Bjornerud(Author)
256 pages, illustrations
Publisher: Basic Books
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"Bjornerud has a rare talent for explaining scientific ideas clearly with intriguing and helpful analogies, similes and metaphors."
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