Geopedia
A geologist's short book of curiosities about rocks and the Earth, from Princeton University Press.
Marcia Bjornerud is a structural geologist at Lawrence University and a contributing writer to The New Yorker’s Elements blog. Geopedia, subtitled A Brief Compendium of Geologic Curiosities, appeared in 2022, and she is also the author of Timefulness and Reading the Rocks. Jazmina Barrera was reading it while writing a book on the names of mountains with her friend Paulina Deschamps.
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Jazmina Barrera
I'm writing a book with my friend Paulina Deschamps about the names of mountains, and that's why I'm reading (and loving) it. Suddenly every stone around me is a precious stone.
Article · December 2023
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