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Walter Álvarez

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in Berkeley, California, The United States

October 03, 1940

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Nonfiction, Science

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Walter Álvarez is a professor of geology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of the best-selling T. Rex and the Crater of Doom. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and a past recipient of the Penrose Medal, the highest award given by the Geological Society of America. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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	T. Rex and the Crater of Doom 4.05 avg rating — 2,006 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves 3.93 avg rating — 349 ratings — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mountains of Saint Francis : Discovering the Geologic Events that Shaped our Earth 4.13 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Idea of a Community of Scholars: Essays Honoring the Centennial of the Faculty Club of the University of California at Berkeley, March 15, 2002 by Walter Álvarez (editor), Stuart E. Clark 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PERMANENTE Y SENTIMENTAL 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Modern Medicine ( December 1, 1951 ) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Rocks are the key to Earth history, because solids remember but liquids and gases forget.”
― Walter Alvarez, T. rex and the Crater of Doom

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“But for geologists quarries are wonderful places, allowing us to see down through the trees and pastures that may be pleasing to the eye but obscure the profound stories that rocks have to tell. In a quarry we are privileged to look into the heart of the mountains and open up the record of the Earth's past. For me, finding a new quarry can be an emotional experience akin to entering the granite portal of the university library at Berkeley. In a library and in a quarry we confront the archives of history.”
― Walter Álvarez, The Mountains of Saint Francis : Discovering the Geologic Events that Shaped our Earth

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