John McPhee is an amazing writer. These articles eventually became his book, <i>Assembling California</i>, which in 1998 was republished as part of a collection of his books on geology entitled <i>Annals of the Former World</i>.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_of_the_Former_World" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_of_the_Former_World</a><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374518734" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374518734</a>