[muerdeme]

For those interested in learning more about geology, I highly recommend John McPhee's Annals of a Former World [1]. It won a Pulitzer in 1999. Through a series of 5 books written between 1978 and 1998, McPhee weaves together the geological development of North America with highly detailed and beautifully written portraits of the geologists that study various sections of the continent. It touches on both basics of geology and highly detailed accounts of geological events in North America as they were understood at the time.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Annals-Former-World-John-McPhee/dp/037...

[mturmon]

Thanks for that. I read and very much enjoyed the essays collected in The Control of Nature and never thought to look for more by the same author.