Without the islands to its west, there’d have been no Italy, no Rome, and no renaissance. Geology changes everything, and keeps records.
Click above to listen to part 1 of Geology is Destiny, featuring Walter Alvarez, professor of Geology at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of A Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves.
Geology is Destiny:
Part 1: Walter Alvarez / Rocks Remember
Part 2: Eugenia Gold / So Goes the Dodo
Part 3: David Grinspoon / Enter the Anthropocene
