The Oxford Companion to the Earth edited by Paul Hancock and Brian
Skinner, Oxford University Press, £39.50, ISBN 0198540396
Geology keeps day-to-day problems in perspective. Even the bloodiest day at a
desk or in the lab pales into insignificance against a global blight of life a
few million years ago. Set against 4.6 billion years of Earth history, modern
life looks good. To put a sense of proportion back into your life, take a look
at The Oxford Companion to the Earth. It has plenty of pertinent
information for those “worse things happened in the Cambrian” moments. But it…
