Written in Stone Beginning in the 1850s

Beginning in the 1850s

what is perhaps most impressive is that all of this activity was occurring in what was essentially a small village

In a daring and complicated attack

as I tuck you in for sleep

the late James Ryan

Written in Stone Beginning in the 1850sBy Chet Raymo and Maureen E. Raymo In vivid, non technical prose, Written in Stone traces the geological changes in the American northeast since the continent perched on the equator and dinosaurs were young. Grand events unfold as continents collide, oceans disappear, mountain ranges rise and fall, and mass extinctions decimate entire species. The events are grand, but the features of the landscape created by these events are as familiar as the hill