These two charts tell me everything I need to know what to do next:
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From a book review, How The Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America, John Dvorak, 2021, Pegasus, 304 pages, in The Wall Street Journal:
For a book about North America, it’s fitting that it opens and closes near the center of the continent. The prologue deals with the ancient granites of Mount Rushmore, SD, the stuff from which Gutzon Borglum carved four presidential faces. The epilogue describes the vast coalfields of Center, ND, where experiments in carbon sequestration are now in high gear.
The book’s 16 evocatively titled chapters are arranged chronologically, but set wherever that slice of time is best revealed. “Bombardment and Bottleneck,” for example, deals with microbial life of the Archean Eon that survived a storm of asteroids. “The Great Dying” examines Earth’s greatest mass extinction, at the end of the Paleozoic Era. “A Grand Staircase” steps forward through the Mesozoic Era. “The Great Lakes of Wyoming” concentrates on the abrupt pulse of strong global warming in the Cenozoic Era that led to our class of mammals, the primates.
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