| | Basin and Range | |
| | Transcontinental Time Line: the Present | |
| | Transcontinental Time Line: Late Triassic | |
| | Why Would an English Major Write about Rocks? | |
| | Set Piece on Geologic Time | |
| | Transcontinental Time Lines: Mississippian/Pennsylvanian | |
| | Set Piece on Plate Tectonics | |
| | Ken Deffeyes Predicts Nevada Seaway | |
| | In Suspect Terrain | |
| | The Biography of Anita Harris | |
| | The Geology of New York City | |
| | The Delaware Water Gap as a Fragment of the Appalachians | |
| | The Appalachians and Plate Tectonics | |
| | The Theory of Continental Glaciation | |
| | Origins of Coal | |
| | Petroleum in Pennsylvania | |
| | Transcontinental Time Lines: Cambrian/Ordovician | |
| | Transcontinental Time Lines: Early and Late Silurian | |
| | Cautionary Arguments about Plate-Tectonic Theory | |
| | Rising from the Plains | |
| | Rawlins and the Spread of Time | |
| | The Laramide Orogeny | |
| | The Burial and Exhumation of the Rocky Mountains | |
| | Love Ranch and Family History | |
| | The Geologic History of Jackson Hole and the Tetons | |
| | Field Geology v. Black Box Geology | |
| | Set Piece on Geophysical Hot Spots | |
| | Transcontinental Time Line: Eocene | |
| | Wyoming Environmental Montage | |
| | Assembling California | |
| | The Gold Rush of the Nineteenth Century | |
| | Ophiolites: Transported Ocean Crust | |
| | The Smartville Block | |
| | Cyprus | |
| | Greece | |
| | Crown King, Arizona | |
| | The Great Central Valley | |
| | The Coast Ranges | |
| | World Ophiolites and Global Tectonics | |
| | The Geology of San Francisco | |
| | The San Andreas Family of Faults | |
| | 1992 Earthquakes, New Fault at Landers and Joshua Tree | |
| | 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake | |
| | Crossing the Craton | |
| | The Midcontinent Rift | |
| | The Oldest Rock | |
| | The Earliest Beginnings of the World | |
| | The Archean Cratons | |
| | Oxygen and the Precipitation of Banded Iron | |
| | The Beginning of Modern Plate Tectonics | |
| | The Coalescence of the Canadian Shield | |
| | The Arcs of Nebraska and Colorado | |
| | Radiometric Dating, Magnetic and Gravity Anomalies, and Well Cores | |
| | The Andean Margin of Kansas | |
| | The Perforation of North America | |
| | Transcontinental Time Line: Middle Proterozoic | |
| | Pikes Peak | |
| | List of Maps | p. 663 |
| | Index | p. 665 |