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+Vineland, Thomas Pynchon
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+Assembling California, by John McPhee (1993)
+
+    Part of a series on geology of the USA, covering the California section, as
+    well as some history of plate tectonics in the 20th century.
+    Good intro to the history and current geography of California on human
+    timescales as well: the 1989 earthquake, gold mining in the Sierras, Napa
+    valley wine country, the story of the Davis campus, etc.
+    The last chapter, about earthquakes in the SF bay area, was as powerful as
+    the July 2015 New Yorker article ("The Really Big One") about tsunamis in
+    the Pacific Northwest.
+
+Not cover to cover:
+* Engineering a Safer World