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Science 18 June 2004:
Vol. 304. no. 5678, p. 1748
DOI: 10.1126/science.1099122
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GEOSCIENCE:
Guidebook for a Grand Tour

A review by Kevin Burke

The Earth An Intimate History
by Richard Fortey
HarperCollins, London, 2004. 511 pp. £25. ISBN 0-00-257011-4. Forthcoming from Knopf, ISBN 0-375-40626-3.

The author uses visits to particular places (including Newfoundland, the San Andreas fault, Hawaii, Oman, and the Alps) as a framework for discussing plate tectonics and its effects on Earth's history.
The reviewer is in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC 20015, USA, and the Department of Geosciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5007, USA. E-mail: kburke{at}uh.edu

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