# How to Read a Rock

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- Book: [How to Read a Rock](https://www.bookquiver.com/jan-zalasiewicz/how-to-read-a-rock) ([How to Read a Rock.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jan-zalasiewicz/how-to-read-a-rock.md))
- Authors: [Jan Zalasiewicz](https://www.bookquiver.com/jan-zalasiewicz)
- Publisher: smithsonian_books
- ISBN: 978-15-8834-728-2
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2022-11-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Rocks are time machines and the keepers of our history. This guide is a geological field trip through Earth’s incredible rock formations and the stories they hold Like rings on a tree stump hold...