Adam Nicolson

Geology’s dry, rocky road

The earthquakes and eruptions that determine Earth’s vastly varied landscape are described by Helen Gordon – perhaps too prosaically

Hills in California near the San Andreas Fault west of Avenal. Credit: Getty Images 
issue 20 February 2021

  • Notes from Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds

    Helen Gordon

    Profile Books, pp. 299, £20

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