Prologue; 1. Perspective; 2. 100 Million Years AD; 3. The Strata Machine; 4. Tectonic Escalator; 5. High Water, Low Water; 6. Dynasties; 7. Echoes; 8. Traces; 9. Body of Evidence; 10. Meeting the People
Jan Zalasiewicz is a Lecturer in Geology at the University of Leicester, before that working at the British Geological Survey. A field geologist, palaeontologist and stratigrapher, he teaches various aspects of geology and Earth history to undergraduate and postgraduate students, and is a researcher into fossil ecosystems and environments across over half a billion years of geological time. He has published over a hundred papers in scientific journals.
Elegantly written book, one of the best of recent geology popularisations. New Scientist.
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