Part I Our Island in Space

Chapter 1 Cosmology and the Birth of Earth
Chapter 2 Journey to the Center of the Earth
Chapter 3 Drifting Continents and Spreading Seas
Chapter 4 The Way the Earth Works: Plate Tectonics

Part II Earth Materials

Chapter 5 Patterns in Nature: Minerals
Interlude A Rock Groups
Chapter 6 Up from the Inferno: Magma and Igneous Rocks
Chapter 7 A Surface Veneer: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks
Chapter 8 Change in the Solid State: Metamorphic Rocks
Interlude B The Rock Cycle

Part III Tectonic Activity of a Dynamic Planet

Chapter 9 The Wrath of Vulcan: Volcanic Eruptions
Chapter 10 A Violent Pulse: Earthquakes
Interlude C Seeing Inside the Earth
Chapter 11 Crags, Cracks, and Crumples: Crustal Deformation and Mountain Building

Part IV History Before History

Interlude D Memories of Past Life: Fossils and Evolution
Chapter 12 Deep Time: How Old Is Old?
Chapter 13 A Biography of Earth

Part V Earth Resources

Chapter 14 Squeezing Power from a Stone: Energy Resources
Chapter 15 Riches in Rock: Mineral Resources

Part VI Processes and Problems at the Earth's Surface

Interlude E Landscape Formation and the Hydrologic Cycle
Chapter 16 Unsafe Ground: Landslides and Other Mass Movements
Chapter 17 Streams and Floods: The Geology of Running Water
Chapter 18 Restless Realm: Oceans and Their Coasts
Chapter 19 A Hidden Reserve: Groundwater
Chapter 20 An Envelope of Gas: Earth's Atmosphere and Climate
Chapter 21 Dry Regions: The Geology of Deserts
Chapter 22 Amazing Ice: Glaciers and Ice Ages
Chapter 23 Global Change: Evolution and the Earth System