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I'm going to repost here my review of Basin and Range because it's pretty much exactly the same for this book. I liked this one a bit more because so much of was about the Bay Area, but I'm guessing it would be somewhat incomprehensible to people outside of the Bay Area.
I very much wanted to love this book. It's been recommended to me multiple times by multiple people, even long before I started working with geologists, long before I held oolites in my hand, or saw an angular unconformity, or g ...more
I very much wanted to love this book. It's been recommended to me multiple times by multiple people, even long before I started working with geologists, long before I held oolites in my hand, or saw an angular unconformity, or g ...more
Exhausting. Tedious. I'm not a geologist and this is definitely not an intro to geology. The historical sections are fascinating, especially the gold rush. The technical jargon at times is overpowering. The ending section describing the Loma Prieta 1989 California Earthquake was detailed and violent and could have used editing. This was worth reading and I think I learned a bunch. But this was hard and slow.
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