cover image Making of a Continet

Making of a Continet

Ron Redfern. Three Rivers Press (CA), $19.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-8129-1617-1

Redfern, author of Corridors of Time, examines the geological history of the North American plate, taking the reader across successive geological provinces (active West to passive East). PW found that this book ""has brought plate tectonics within the grasp of the lay reader without oversimplification.'' (September)