拼装加利福尼亚
Assembling California
John McPhee · 初版 1993 年
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在长达十五年的时间里，John McPhee曾多次在加利福尼亚大学戴维斯分校构造地质学家Eldridge Moores的陪同下进行野外地质调查。这些考察的成果便是《Assembling California》，它是一部横跨人类时间与地质时间的横剖面记录：从内华达山脉的唐纳隘口，穿越Mother Lode的金色丘陵，横跨中央大谷地，直抵海岸山脉的葡萄酒产区、旧金山的岩石层以及圣安德烈亚斯断层系。这两种截然不同的时间尺度偶有交汇——例如在19世纪的淘金狂潮中……
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我对 John McPhee 的《Assembling California》[1] 怎么安利都不为过。太神了，里面关于 89 年地震的描写极其精彩。说真的，John McPhee 写的任何东西都值得你放下手头的一切立刻开读。他简直是国宝级的……
I cannot pimp John McPhee's Assembling California [1] highly enough. It is fantastic, and contains a wonderful section about the '89 quake. Really, anything John McPhee writes is worth stopping whatever one is doing and getting started. He's a national…
“给自己壮胆”。John McPhee 的《Assembling California》[1] 里有关于 89 年洛马普里塔地震以及地震相关的不少干货。[1] http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/07/05/specials/mcphee-califo...
"Whistling past the graveyard". There's good stuff in John McPhee's Assembling California [1] about the '89 Loma Prieta earthquake, and about earthquakes in general. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/07/05/specials/mcphee-califo...
我正在读 John McPhee 的《Assembling California》。文笔极其华彩，探讨了如今加利福尼亚这片土地是从何而来、又是如何演变成现今模样的。它既考察了该地区的地质史，也梳理了板块……的发现历程。
I'm in the middle of Assembling California by John McPhee. It's a richly written exploration of where the land that is now California came from and how it got here. It examines the geologic history of the state as well as the discovery of plate…
John McPhee 真是个神仙作家。这些文章最终结集成了他的书《Assembling California》，并在 1998 年作为他的地质学系列文集《Annals of the Former World》的一部分再版。https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_of_the_Former_World https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374518734
John McPhee is an amazing writer. These articles eventually became his book, Assembling California, which in 1998 was republished as part of a collection of his books on geology entitled Annals of the Former World. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_of_the_Former_World https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374518734
来得太巧了——我刚读完 John McPhee 那本精彩绝伦的《Assembling California》。它非常详细地讲述了加利福尼亚是如何拼合而成的，还涵盖了板块构造理论的历史、淘金热以及诸多其他内容。
Perfect timing - I just finished John McPhee’s wonderful “Assembling California”. It goes into quite a bit of detail of how California came together, and includes some history of tectonic plate theory, the gold rush, and quite a lot more.
太酷了！我最近刚读了 John McPhee 的《Assembling California》[1][2]——顺便强烈推荐一下。话说回来，我当时还在琢磨，要是能有个带时间滑块的 3D 地球仪，让我随意把玩并把（当然是预测的）大陆运动可视化出来……
This is rad! I recently read Assembling California by John McPhee[1][2] - highly recommended BTW. Anyway, I was musing that I'd love to see a 3D globe with a time slider that I could play around with and visualize the (projected of course) movement of…