Specific topics include strike-slip fault, terminal moraine, tsunami, weathering, Yellowstone National Park, mass wasting, Kaapvaal craton, ichnofossils, greenstone belts, geodesy, El Nino, desalination, carbon cycle, and
aa lava. Five appendixes contain the periodic table of elements, the geologic time scale, classification of species, solar system data, and evolution of life and the atmosphere.