 [Larger view] | Plate Tectonics: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Earth (The Living Earth Series)
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 Quite good, actually. Informative and thought provoking. | |
| I came across this title in Amazon.com several weeks ago, and decided at that time not to look for a copy, based on the negative review by the reviewer of July 2003. Then I happened upon a copy of the book at a bricks-and-mortar book store today, found it to be quite good, and bought it. I'm about 100 pages into it this evening, and I appreciate the way it summarizes and ties together recent findings I've read about in other works but couldn't relate to one another. I agree that there have been a few rough places where editing could improve the flow of the text, but I'm finding it quite informative. | |
 Desperately In Need of Editing | |
| Plate tectonics can be one of the sexiest topics in geology. However, via this book, Erickson and Muller manage to turn it into a sleeper. The writing style is circular, repetitive, and desperately in need of editing. As this book is relatively non-technical, the majority of its content can be found in a second-semester earth science/geology textbook. The one redeeming feature: noteworthy graphics and charts (that would have benefitted from color over black and white...) |
