To understand continental drift and plate tectonics, the shifting and collisions that make and unmake continents, requires a long view.
And yet this cycle, the grandest pattern in Nature, may well be the fundamental reason our species--or any complex li.
This book extends our vision to take in the greatest geological cycle of all--one so vast that our species will probably be extinct long before the current one ends in about 250 million years.
The Earth, after all, is 4.6 Billion Years old.
To understand continental drift and plate tectonics, the shifting and collisions that make and unmake continents, requires a long view