The Earth After Us: What legacy will humans leave in the rocks?
Format: kindle
ASIN: B006QV80HM
Publish date: September 25th 2008
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Pages no: 276
Edition language: English
This book reinforced two ideas that I should have accepted by now: I know more than the average bear about geology,and books should never, never be written entirely in a sans-serif font.I've been working with earth scientists for ten years, so it would make sense that I know something about the top...
Was really looking forward to this, but the title and description are pretty misleading. It's really just a lecture on how geology works, and why so few things get preserved as fossils. It's not until Chapter 8 (out of 10!) that he finally gets into "OK, so what will humans have left behind in 10,00...