Compact, highly readable textbook introducing the reader to the scientific method through examples in geology. Peters has devoted much of her attention to the catastrophic Bretz Floods during the Pleistocene and to the fossil evidence for evolutionary theory. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Dr. E. Kirsten Peters is a scientist with interests in everyday aspects of energy, cars, light-bulbs and other consumer products, and the broad intersection of science and engineering with our lives. Dr. Peters, a native of the rural Northwest, was educated in geology at Princeton and Harvard.