The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780199214983 (0199214980)
Publish date: November 1st 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 256
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...