Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World PDF
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TIMEFULNESS T I M E F U L N E S S How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World M A R C I A B J O R N E R U D PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD Copyright © 2018 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TR press .princeton .edu Jacket image: Mineralogy lithographs from the Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art, 1852 All Rights Reserved ISBN 978-0-691-18120-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018945515 British Library Cataloging- in- Publication Data is available This book has been composed in Adobe Text Pro and Gotham Printed on acid- free paper. ∞ Printed in the United States of America 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 CONTENTS Acknowledgments vi Prologue: The Allure of Timelessness 1 1 A Call for Timefulness 6 2 An Atlas of Time 21 3 The Pace of the Earth 62 4 Changes in the Air 93 5 Great Accelerations 126 6 Timefulness, Utopian and Scientific 159 Epilogue 180 APPENDIXES I Simplified Geologic Timescale 184 II Durations and Rates of Earth Phenomena 186 III Environmental Crises in Earth’s History: Causes and Consequences 190 Notes 193 Index 203 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am grateful to the many people who played a part in the evo- lution of this book: my colleagues David McGlynn and Jerald Podair; Princeton University Press editors Eric Henney and Leslie Grundfest, and associates Arthur Werneck and Stephanie Rojas; copyeditor Barbara Liguori; and illustrator Haley Hager- man, whose work is timeless. Thanks also to my family— my parents, Gloria and Jim; sons, Olav, Finn, and Karl; and beau, Paul, with whom I am lucky to spend my time on Earth. The epigraph to chapter 3 is taken from “Blowin’ in the Wind” by Bob Dylan. Copyright © 1962 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1990 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission. TIMEFULNESS
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