Life is filled with unconformities, revealing holes in time that are also fissures in feeling, knowledge and understanding. Old Man of Hoy, in northern Scotland McPhoto/Wolf-Feix/Alamy. By .

The Book of Unconformities Speculations on Lost Time By Hugh Raffles Illustrated. 374 pages. Pantheon. $30. A version of this article appears in print on ...

Unconformities are relatively common, but every now and then a big one is found that takes some explaining. The Great Unconformity Exploring the Grand Canyon in 1869, geologist John Wesley Powell ...

In the book of unconformities ($30, Pantheon), Hugh Raffles contemplates the curious lives of stones from the Bronx to Iceland, demonstrating that “even the most solid, ancient, and elemental ...

"Unconformities in the rock record are like missing chapters in the book of geologic time," says Jensen, a USU Presidential Doctoral Research Fellow.

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It’s fitting that the electronic musician(s) behind the Craven Faults banner has chosen to keep their identity hidden. The project’s first full album after three acclaimed EPs, the ethos of Erratics & ...

"The Book of Unconformities" is a consummately "unstable and intimate energy-space," and among the most mysterious books I’ve ever read — a dense, dark star.