It Pays to Know Your Planet

摘要

Geology is the study of Earth's physical structure and resources. What other body of knowledge could be more practical for assessing the economic opportunities that nature so abundantly offers-not to mention the pitfalls that lie in wait for those who ignore her limits?rnNo other field gives the satisfaction of allowing one to read the hidden history-in a piece of marble, a hillside, a handful of sand, the rock layers of a road cut, or the jagged peaks of a mountain range.