This chronicle proceeds from earth science to earth experience. Something like it, descriptions suggest, may be included in the major new mineral halls planned for the American Museum of Natural History. But you could also proceed in the other direction, beginning with experience. Start from where we stand, in a particular place at a particular time. We start to piece together an understanding of the Earth from some of its parts.

Source: Wall Street Journal September 09, 2020 19:18 UTC