For @highcountrynews.org's latest issue on Deep Time, I reviewed 3 books that help us explore Earth's past in different ways: Basin and Range by John McPhee, Strata by @laurapoppick.bsky.social, and When the Earth was Green by @restingdinoface.bsky.social 🧪⚒️ www.hcn.org/issues/58-1/...

Three books explore deep time and help us look forward - High Country News

Each of these books can, in its own way, teach readers how to think about Earth's history, and how to apply lessons from the past to our future.

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Congrats to @laurenmarkham.bsky.social, @laurapoppick.bsky.social, and all the other nominees whose names may or may not begin with L-A-U...!

@laurapoppick.bsky.social's excellent Q&A with Karen Lloyd on the microbes that live deep in the Earth's subsurface and may divide only rarely over hundreds, thousands, millions of years www.quantamagazine.org/the-pursuit-...

The Pursuit of Life Where It Seems Unimaginable | Quanta Magazine

A decade ago, Karen Lloyd discovered single-celled microbes living beneath the seafloor. Now she studies how they can survive in Earth’s crust, possibly for hundreds or thousands of years, and push li...

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Truly stunned. What an honor to have STRATA longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Congratulations to all of the other authors listed 🌏 💫 . @penamerica.bsky.social pen.org/announcing-t...

File this under things I never expected to see 😳 🤩. May the events of deep time continue to weasel their way into pop culture! 🌎 💫

W. W. Norton & Company @wwnorton.com · 8mo ago

Journalist @laurapoppick.bsky.social's STRATA is one of NPR's "Books We Love" and a Scientific American staff pick for 2025. But also, it's essential reading for #jeopardy victory. wwnorton.com/books/strata

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Curious Reading Club@readcurious.xyz · 2y ago

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🎉 STRATA's audiobook launches today! 🎉 rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

RBmedia | Strata

Listen to the audiobook Strata, written by Laura Poppick, narrated by Jeannie Sheneman.

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Honored to know that Strata is off on a journey to #AGU25 ☺️

Kelly Hereid@kellyhereid.bsky.social · 8mo ago

So gang, what all are we reading on our big #AGU25 travel day? I need recs for my trip home! I'm halfway through @laurapoppick.bsky.social's Strata right now (finished BIFs, wrapping up Snowball Earth) and it's so good I'm lugging a hardcover.

🪨 Geologist @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social explains how embracing wonder and awe adds to our scientific understanding of the rocks that form our planet: buff.ly/teeT0NU

WOW, thank you to @meghanbartels.bsky.social and @sciam.bsky.social for listing STRATA as a Staff Favorite Book of 2025. 🙏💫🌎 My own to-read pile just keeps growing and growing...so many gems on this list! 🤩

Meghan Bartels@meghanbartels.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It's the most wonderful time of the year, best-of book list time! At @sciam.bsky.social we do a fun spin, highlighting a ton of books individual staffers read this year and loved, and it's always a pleasure to contribute. Check out this year's list (with lots of entries from yours truly): 📚💙

Thank you so much @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social 🙏 ☺️. Honored to be in your company this year, and may 2026 bring ever more attention to the rocks 🪨.

Dr Anjana Khatwa@anjanakhatwa.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Amazing endorsement - thank you so much. 2025 has been an incredible year for female geologists and publishing. An NPR top pick for 2025 is also Strata by @laurapoppick.bsky.social 👏🏾💖 so huge congratulations to her!

I love finding the talent of my friends prominently displayed 👏

Murray Carpenter@murray-journo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Glad to see that Sweet and Deadly made it across the pond, and is is well-displayed at @waterstones.bsky.social in Edinburgh. Thanks to @laurapoppick.bsky.social for spotting it! @mitpress.bsky.social

Have book will travel ... to the @nacis.bsky.social 2025 conference. I'm excited to be part of the #mappingwater session on Friday. And, thank you, @laurapoppick.bsky.social for the great reading material :)

My latest for @quantamagazine.bsky.social, a Q&A with @karenlloyd.bsky.social on the hidden worlds living within Earth's crust. Favorite new word: aeonophiles, in reference to microbes that may live for 100,000s or even **millions** of years, just riding out the waves of geologic events 🤯.

Karen Lloyd@karenlloyd.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Great new article about the cool stuff we're finding (improbably) alive deep inside Earth's crust! Nice work, @laurapoppick.bsky.social at @quantamagazine.bsky.social www.quantamagazine.org/the-pursuit-...

📣 Our book of the month for August is... STRATA: STORIES FROM DEEP TIME by @laurapoppick.bsky.social We loved this detailed, deliberate overview of geoscience—and its mixture of lyrical prose and detailed profiles of researchers and the things they study. newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/announcing...

Deep thoughts on deep time with August's book of the month

Laura Poppick's "Strata" takes the long view on geology.

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Honored that @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social selected Strata for their summer subscription! And also love that they have a subscription service, what a great idea. 🤩 Thanks Point Reyes Books and all of the other small independent bookstores helping to get this thing in the hands of readers 🙏.

Point Reyes Books@pointreyesbooks.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We're excited to announce our summer Thinking Like a Mountain subscription pick: Laura Poppick's 'Strata: Stories from Deep Time'. @laurapoppick.bsky.social To learn more about our subscription club, visit ptreyesbooks.com/TLAM.

In 2024, researchers reported a startling finding: deep-sea rock formations—known as polymetallic nodules—may be producing oxygen in total darkness. The phenomenon, dubbed “dark oxygen,” challenged assumptions about life-supporting chemistry in the deep ocean. Watch the full video: bit.ly/4foQbHp

Thanks @literaryhub.bsky.social for listing Strata's cover as one of the best of July! So grateful to Steve Attardo and the whole team at @wwnorton.com for designing this beauty that captures the essence of the book while also offering a real feast for the eyes. lithub.com/the-11-best-...

Thanks for the shout-out @literaryhub.bsky.social! And such company to be in, my summer reading list is piling up too quickly. manage.kmail-lists.com/subscription...

"Earth itself shaped humankind as we have shaped the planet in return - a relationship that requires repair but that could be rehabilitated with a little more recognition of where we came from." Thank you, @restingdinoface.bsky.social, for this beautiful review of Strata in @science.org today.

Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕@restingdinoface.bsky.social · last yr.

Strata: Stories From Deep Time is a beautifully-written book that enthuses over geology in delicious analogies. Here’s my review in Science.

Delighted to have this excerpt from Strata out in @literaryhub.bsky.social this week 🧊 🎉

Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · last yr.

@laurapoppick.bsky.social explains why glacial ice isn’t just a product of climate, but a force that shapes it.

"...it would not only erase all current limits on greenhouse gas pollution from cars, factories, power plants and other sources. It would prevent future administrations from trying to tackle climate change, with lasting implications." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

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Thanks so much @mounty.bsky.social! I've been encouraging my Maine friends to find a beach to read it on, or some other sedimentary environment :).

Andrew Mountcastle@mounty.bsky.social · last yr.

New book day! Can’t wait to dive into this tonight, written by my friend and fellow Mainer, Laura Poppick. Congrats @laurapoppick.bsky.social!

Oh my goodness @bengoldfarb.bsky.social 😍. Youngest and sweetest reader yet! Love that the cover matches her binky.

Ben Goldfarb@bengoldfarb.bsky.social · last yr.

Letter of rec: reading about deep time aloud to a baby. Thanks to @laurapoppick.bsky.social for helping me start Flo’s fluvial geomorphological education early (she already has the name for it!).

NYC, see you Monday? Grab yours tickets to my convo with the brilliant @slaskow.bsky.social at Books Are Magic ✨ 📚 A ticket gets you either a book, or a gift certificate to the store!

Sarah Laskow@slaskow.bsky.social · last yr.

I will be hanging out with the excellent @laurapoppick.bsky.social next Monday at Books Are Magic to talk about the stories found in the ground. And also MUD. Come by! Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-l...

In addition to an excerpt I have out in @nautil.us this week (nautil.us/the-stories-...) ...I also had a lot of fun writing this 3 Greatest Revelations piece about what surprised me as I researched the book: nautil.us/when-earth-h...

When Earth Had No Fire

Laura Poppick’s 3 greatest revelations while writing her book, Strata: Stories from Deep Time

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Delighted to have an excerpt from STRATA out in @nautil.us this week! 🪨🌏💫 nautil.us/the-stories-...

The Stories Rocks Tell Us

Lessons for our current Earth from the geologic past

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Thanks so much @katieholten.bsky.social!

Katie Holten@katieholten.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to dive into Strata: Stories from Deep Time by @laurapoppick.bsky.social. Happy pub day! #booksky #naturewriting #earth

cambridge/somerville/environs - hop over to @harvardbookstore.bsky.social tonight where we'll be traveling very deep into the past with @laurapoppick.bsky.social and her new book, STRATA: STORIES FROM DEEP TIME! www.harvard.com/event/laura-...

Thank you @1juliarosen.bsky.social! Looking forward to holding your book in the not-too-distant future as well 📚🙏.

Julia Rosen@1juliarosen.bsky.social · last yr.

Beyond excited for this book to be in the world! Congrats, @laurapoppick.bsky.social!! Get your copy here: wwnorton.com/books/strata And order prints of the stunning art by @sarahmgilman.bsky.social at www.etsy.com/shop/HiddenD...