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THE INNER WORKINGS OF EARTH AND OTHER WORLDS
AUTHOR SABINE STANLEY PUBLISHER JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS PRICE £14 / $16.95
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Professor Sabine Stanley is a Harvard-educated planetary scientist who, despite being brought up the daughter of restaurateurs, feels she was almost destined to pursue her vocation by spending her formative years in an Italian eatery in Sudbury, Ontario. Stanley describes the Canadian mining town as a “geologist’s dream landscape” – and all because a humongous bolide, a meteorite or comet, hit this location nearly 2 billion years ago and melted a huge swathe of rock a mile beneath the impact site, bringing all sorts of rare and interesting minerals and metals to the surface. Her years spent working in her parents’ restaurant has given her a nice line in analogies, too, drawing comparisons with the roiling convection in a pot of soup on the stove and the gyre of the iron-nickel core that gives us the Earth’s magnetic field.