| 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 |