Turning to Stone - Bjornerud, Marcia
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A remarkable study of rocks, the stories they can tell us and the various ways they continue to shape and influence our lives, from the author of Timefulness.

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A remarkable study of rocks, the stories they can tell us and the various ways they continue to shape and influence our lives, from the author of Timefulness.
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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.