Strata: Stories from Deep Time

Laura Poppick

Poppick reads Earth history out of rock layers, oxygen and mass extinction, making deep time legible rather than merely enormous, without leaving the field work out.

Poppick reads Earth’s history out of its rock layers, taking in oxygen, ice and mass extinction, and writes about deep time as something legible rather than merely vast. Science journalism that keeps the field work in the frame, so the reader sees the cliffs and cores the conclusions came from as well as the conclusions themselves.

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Maria Popova

Laura Poppick offers a wondrous portal into this deeper dimension of time in Strata: Stories from Deep Time (public library) — a fine belated addition to my favorite books of 2025.

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