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Her book Timefulness was a finalist for the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. She was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing in 2025, for her book Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks.

Marcia Bjornerud was born in 1962.

Books

Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth (2005)
Geopedia: A Brief Compendium of Geologic Curiosities (2022)
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World (2018)
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks (2024)

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