From Scientific American
Strain's book, The Earth's Shifting Axis, presents a captivating analysis of the forces nature utilizes to continually remodel our planet. While most elements of his theory can be found in scientific literature, his treatment of the whole far exceeds the sum of the parts by explaining the driving forces responsible for exchange of lands and oceans, crustal distortions, climate swings, and life cycles.
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From The New Yorker
The text is well presented and shows a tremendous amount of thought has been put into its compilation. From my position as an earth scientist, a Geologist, I feel the material he presents will be highly thought provoking and discussed within the scientific community as additions to the concept n global tectonics and their meaning. The book will be used, if not as a college text in the higher levels of Structural Geology courses, then as a recommended reading within the curriculum of a geological degree. In addition, the layman, and those persons interested in the course of a geologic events as to the development of earth, will find the book extremely interesting. The author puts forth in an analytical way an extremely complex set of events that are currently being identified in man's conception of the forces of geological behavior of Earth, and it will be looked at as exciting and thought provoking to the knowledgeable, as well as to the curious student, of forces that shaped the planet.
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