Lightning

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Accursed Mountains 1
5. Budj Bim 4
6. Cameroon Death Lake 6
7. Cantre’r Gwaelod 11
8. Dzud 15
9. Ecodaimon 18
10. Eternal Fires 19
11. Fech Fech 24
12. Fimbulwinter 29
13. Fires of Tamatea 31
14. Frogs and Fish, Rains of 35
15. Gaia Hypothesis 39
16. Geofact 41
17. Geomythology 44
18. Geosmin 46
19. Hydromythology 50
20. Iron from the Sky 52
21. Jishi Gorge 56
22. Jobar 61
23. Kadimakara 63
24. Kamikaze 65
25. Killing Stone 68
26. Laboon 72
27. Lakalanga’s Footprints 73
28. Lightning 76
29. Longevity of Orality 80
30. Makin Island Boulders 82
31. Mangaia Island 86
32. Marmite 89
33. Namazu 92
34. Obsidian 95
35. Paleoburrows 98
36. Pele’s Hair 102
37. Polydektes Petrified 103
38. Quicksand 108
39. Rama’s Bridge 112
40. Rat Hole of Chicago 116
41. Sandstorms 121
42. Shajarat-al- Hayat 126
43. Singing Sand Dunes 130
44. Smong 136
45. Solitary or Dry Tree 140
46. Tree of Ténéré 145
47. Tsangpo River Chasm 149
48. Uoke 152
49. Vernagtferner 155
50. Vitaliano, Dorothy 159
51. Whirlpool 160
52. Xhosa Legend of iziKhaleni 163
53. Xing, Lida 164
54. Ymir 166
55. Zambezi River God 170
56. Zooseismology 173
57. Acknowledgments 181
58. Further Reading 183
59. Index 185