MDMD(4) p.123 small re-write

[Ted Samsel]

David quotes me:
 
> >And to get an account of this from geology that is quite readable
> >even for the the layperson, check out John McPhee's volume on
> >California geology. (Can't recall the title, though..)..
> 
> _Constructing California_, a really superb book, like many of McPhee's.  
> Last of a trilogy on geologists and geology, in the form of a geology 
> field-trip from the East Coast to the West.  The first two are _Table of 
> Contents_ and _Rising From the Plain_.

Not a trilogy... lest we forget IN SUSPECT TERRAIN. There are
at least 4 in his series on US geology...

IST is about E Coast & central glacial till, as I recall.

McPhee also wrote a piece for the New Yorker on forensic geology.
Good stuff.

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net