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PURCHASE ON GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAECSzwOPgM Turning to Stone Authored by Marcia Bjornerud Narrated by Rebecca Stern 0:00 Intro 0:03 Turning to Stone 0:18 Itinerary for a Journey Through Earlier Worlds 2:05 Prologue: Ice 18:51 1. Sandstone 1:00:00 Outro #marciabjornerud #turningtostone — GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS Find your next great read with Google Play Books. Google Play Books is a global digital bookstore offering ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga. Discover book recommendations personalized just for you. Get the iOS app: https://goo.gle/books-ios Get the Android app: https://goo.gle/books-android — BOOK DESCRIPTION 'Vast and arresting' SPECTATOR 'A remarkably human take on the geological world' NEW STATESMAN Rocks are the record of our creative planet reinventing itself for four billion years. Nothing is ever lost, just transformed. Marcia Bjornerud's life as a geologist has coincided with an extraordinary period of discovery. From an insular girlhood in rural Wisconsin, she found her way to an unlikely career studying mountains in remote parts of the world. As one of few women in her field, she witnessed the shift in our understanding of the Earth, from solid object to an entity in a constant state of transformation. In the most tumultuous times of her own life, a deep understanding of our rocky planet imbued her life with meaning. The lives of rocks are long and complex, spanning billions of years and yet shaping our own human lives in powerful, invisible ways. Sandstone that filters out pathogens creating underground oases in aquifers of clean water. Ecologite is "the chosen rock" whose formation keeps the planet running. Earth is not just a passive backdrop, or a source of resources to be mined, extracted, and carved out. Rocks are full of wisdom, but somewhere along the way many of us have forgotten how to hear it. When we are uncertain about where to find truth, a geocentric worldview reminds us that we are Earthlings, part of a planetary community where we can find wisdom in the most unlikely places. More praise for TURNING TO STONE: 'Marcia Bjornerud writes evocatively' COUNTRY LIFE 'A nuanced celebration of the language of stone' DAVID GEORGE HASKELL 'A unique and timeless book' ROBERT HALZEN — ABOUT THE AUTHOR MARCIA BJORNERUD is Professor of Geosciences at LawrenceUniversity, researching the physics of earthquakes and mountainbuilding. She is a two–time Fulbright Senior Scholar as well as aFellow of the Geological Society of America and the WisconsinAcademy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. Bjornerud is a contributing writer to the New Yorker, Wall StreetJournal, Wired and Los Angeles Times, and the author of Readingthe Rocks, Timefulness and Geopedia. Timefulness was longlisted forthe 2019 PEN/E. O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing,and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize forScience & Technology and the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.Turning to Stone was awarded the 2025 John Burroughs Medal fordistinguished natural history writing. — AUDIOBOOK DETAILS Purchase on Google Play Books ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAECSzwOPgM Language: English Publisher: Wildfire Published on: August 6, 2024 ISBN: 9781472298485 Duration: 9 hr, 41 min Genres: History / General, Literary Collections / Essays, Science / Earth Sciences / Geography, Science / Earth Sciences / Geology, Science / General, Science / History