Granite Skyscrapers. How Rock Shaped Earth and Other Worlds

We have a peculiar and very misguided view of our planet as a solid lump of rock. This misconception is based on our everyday experience of standing on something that seems eternal and largely unchanging. If it were not for periodic earthquakes or occasional, somewhat inconveniencing eruptions, we might forget entirely that in truth, we live on a thin skin of cool rock floating on a torrid sea of malleable material. <...>