From the Book - Regular Print
Ch.1 Landscapes of internal fire : On the spot : over a river of lava / SueEllen Campbell --
Imagining the interior --
On the spot : at the edge of an overthrust belt / Scott Denning --
On the spot : among the Aeolian Islands / John Calderazzo --
The globe, tectonic plates, and mountain building --
On the spot : along the disturbance gradient / Charles Goodrich --
Volcanoes and their eruptions --
On the spot : approaching Chaitén Volcano / Fred Swanson --
Hot springs and geysers --
Ch.2 Climate and ice : On the spot : up and down they Himalaya / Ellen Wohl --
The ghosts of climates past --
On the spot : on the Burren / Gerald Delahunty --
Landscapes shaped by ice --
On the spot : in the channeled scablands / Mark Fiege --
On the spot :on the Arctic Tundra / Ellen Wohl --
The little ice age, glaciology, and the sublime --
On the spot : toward a glacier's edge / Ana Maria Spagna --
Ch.3 Wet and fluid : On the spot : in the Rocky Intertidal Zone / Kathleen Dean Moore --
On the spot : along a rain forest stream / Ellen Wohl --
The moving waters of rivers --
The dream of water in deserts --
The slow water of wetlands --
On the spot : at the bog on Céide Fields / Gerald Delahunty --
Peat, mires, bogs, fens --
On the spot : at Wicken Fen / Richard Kerridge --
On the spot : at the Billabong / Deborah Bird Rose --
Ch.4 Desert places, desert lives : On the spot : down a desert river canyon / SueEllen Campbell --
Dry, hot, windy, and dusty --
On the spot : in Jabal Ajā / Othman Llewellyn, Aishah Abdallah --
On the spot : in the Chihuahuan Desert / Tom Lynch --
On the spot : in the red center / Deborah Bird Rose --
On the spot : in the Negev Desert / Ellen Wohl --
Ch.5 The complexities of the real : Underfoot --
On the spot : in Antarctica's dry valleys / Diana Wall --
The shapes of complexity --
On the spot : on the chalk downs / Richard Kerridge --
On the spot : in the tallgrass prairie / Bruce Campbell --
On the spot : on the Tibetan Plateau / Julia Klein --
On the spot : in a Eucalypt forest / Kate Rigby --
Epilogue : In a high flower meadow / SueEllen Campbell.