About the Author

James Powell is Director and President of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. He taught geology for twenty years at Oberlin College, where he also served as Acting President. The author of Night Comes To The Cretaceous, he lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews

Kevin Padian Professor of Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, BerkeleyPowell shows how the great discoveries of deep time, tectonics, and extraterrestrial impacts built the science of geology today, and how they had to be established in sequence. This lively book will be extremely useful for all students of geology, but also for those who wish to see how scientific fields evolve.