Strata: Stories from Deep Time
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Longlisted for the 2026 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
One of NPR's "Books We Love" for 2025
A Scientific American Staff Favorite for 2025
A revelatory journey through four moments in Earth’s deep past, and their lessons for our future.
The epic stories of our planet’s 4.54-billion-year history are written in strata—ages-old remnants of ancient seafloors, desert dunes, and riverbeds striping landscapes around the world. In this brilliantly original debut work, science writer L...






















