Laura Poppick

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Laura Poppick


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Laura Poppick is a science and environmental journalist whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, Smithsonian, Scientific American, Wired, Audubon, National Geographic, Science, and elsewhere. She has been listed as a finalist for the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award and the Maine Literary Awards Short Works Competition in Nonfiction, among others. She lives in Portland, Maine.

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Audiobook of STRATA launches today!

This is a very brief note to let you know that the audiobook of STRATA is (finally) out in the world today!

I’m excited to have this version of the book available for folks who may not have time in the day to sit down and read, but perhaps like to listen while out on a morning commute or while cooking or doing errands.

If this is you, and you’d like to immerse yourself in deep time this winter, ple

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Published on December 16, 2025 16:13
Average rating: 4.18 · 222 ratings · 61 reviews · 3 distinct worksSimilar authors
Strata: Stories from Deep Time

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The story of Snowball Earth

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To date a dinosaur (Knowabl...

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“evidence of life on the planet that dates at least as far back as those 3.5-billion-year-old filaments.”
Laura Poppick, Strata: Stories from Deep Time

“Together with colleagues at Memorial University, Myrow decided that this appearance of Treptichnus pedum was a decent marker of the beginning of the Cambrian, since up until that point it had never been found in rocks older than the Cambrian, and it sat just above rocks that were identifiably Precambrian. Myrow and his colleagues put forth a proposal for the Fortune Dump (now called Fortune Head) to be designated the Precambrian-Cambrian golden spike,”
Laura Poppick, Strata: Stories from Deep Time

“Nothing is set in stone, because our understanding of the stones keeps changing, as do the stones themselves.”
Laura Poppick, Strata: Stories from Deep Time



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