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Introduction | p. ix |
Landscapes of Internal Fire | |
On the Spot: Over a River of Lava | p. 1 |
Prologue | p. 3 |
Imagining the Interior | p. 5 |
On the Spot: At the Edge of an Overthrust Belt | p. 15 |
Mundus subterraneus | p. 18 |
On the Spot: Among the Aeolian Islands | p. 23 |
The Globe, Tectonic Plates, and Mountain Building | p. 26 |
On the Spot: Along the Disturbance Gradient | p. 35 |
Volcanoes and Their Eruptions | p. 37 |
On the Spot: Approaching Chaitén Volcano | p. 45 |
Hot Springs and Geysers | p. 48 |
Climate and Ice | |
Prologue | p. 57 |
On the Spot: Up and Down the Himalaya | p. 58 |
How the Climate Works | p. 60 |
The Ghosts of Climates Past | p. 68 |
On the Spot: On the Burren | p. 76 |
Our Ice Age | p. 79 |
Landscapes Shaped by Ice | p. 84 |
On the Spot: In the Channeled Scablands | p. 90 |
Ice-Age Humans | p. 93 |
On the-Spot: On the Arctic Tundra | p. 103 |
The Tittle Ice Age, Glaciology, and the Sublime | p. 105 |
On the Spot: Toward a Glacier's Edge | p. 111 |
The Story Now | p. 113 |
Wet and Fluid | |
Prologue | p. 120 |
On the Spot: In the Rocky Intertidal Zone | p. 122 |
The Water Cycle | p. 125 |
On the Spot: Along a Rain Forest Stream | p. 132 |
The Moving Waters of Rivers | p. 135 |
The Dream of Water in Deserts | p. 145 |
The Slow Water of Wetlands | p. 151 |
On the Spot: At the Bog on Céide Fields | p. 156 |
Peat, Mires, Bogs, Fens | p. 159 |
On the Spot: At Wicken Fen | p. 163 |
Marshes and Swamps | p. 165 |
Wet/Dry | p. 172 |
On the Spot: At the Billabong | p. 178 |
Desert Places, Desert Lives | |
Prologue | p. 182 |
On the Spot: Down a Desert River Canyon | p. 185 |
Dry, Hot, Windy, and Dusty | p. 188 |
On the Spot: In Jabal Aja | p. 191 |
What We See | p. 196 |
On the Spot: In the Chihuahuan Desert | p. 205 |
Clever Plants | p. 208 |
On the Spot: In the Red Center | p. 219 |
Clever Creatures | p. 223 |
On the Spot: In the Negev Desert | p. 231 |
The Human Desert | p. 233 |
The Complexities of the Real | |
Prologue | p. 241 |
Underfoot | p. 241 |
On the Spot: In Antarctica's Dry Valleys | p. 244 |
Oceans of Grass | p. 247 |
The Shapes of Complexity | p. 250 |
On the Spot: On the Chalk Downs | p. 253 |
Evolving Together … | p. 255 |
On the Spot: In the Tallgrass Prairie | p. 258 |
…And Moving Apart | p. 260 |
On the Spot: On the Tibetan Plateau | p. 267 |
Among Trees | p. 270 |
On the Spot: In a Eucalypt Forest | p. 274 |
Zooming In | p. 277 |
Return to Wonder | p. 285 |
Epilogue. In A High Flower Meadow | p. 293 |
Sources | p. 296 |
Contributor Biographies | p. 306 |
Acknowledgments | p. 309 |
Index | p. 311 |
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