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From Assembling California, by John McPhee

MORE RECENT YEARS

"The mobile tectonics of more recent years are a good deal easier to see.  If you look on a world map at Antarctica, South America, Africa, and Australia, you virtually see them exploding away from one another.  You can reassemble Gondwana in your mind and then watch it come apart."

From page 210

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From In Suspect Terrain, by John McPhee

A STRUCTURAL GEOLOGIST

"A structural geologist with a foot on each continent looks up and aside from this contentious scene. 'While geologists argue, the rocks just sit there,' he remarks. 'And sometimes they seem to smile.'"

From Page 149, hardcover edition

A Sedimentary Clerihew

JOHN MCPHEE

John McPhee
Just might be
The only one who can make me
Read a book on geology.