Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Of Landscapes and Transience
4. Solid as a Rock? Geological Transience Out Far and In Deep 9
5. Landscapes on the Edge
6. Balance of Power Camp Creek, New Zealand 15
7. Facing the Subduction Zone The Lost Coast of Northern California 21
8. Himalaya The Weather Makers 25
9. Tortured Landscape Mount Unzen, Japan 29
10. Paradox Sechura Desert, Western Peru 35
11. Hell, 100 Years Later Katmai National Park, Alaska 39
12. Juxtapositions of Violence Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona 45
13. Interior Landscapes
14. Buckeye Creek Cave, West Virginia What Lies Beneath 51
15. Stepped Landscape Augrabies Falls National Park, South Africa 55
16. Islands of Rock Kakadu National Park, Australia 61
17. Retreating Ice Mackenzie River, Canada 65
18. Time and the Rivers Flowing
19. In Transit La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica 73
20. Summer’s Abundance Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska 77
21. Survival Strategies Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska 83
22. Differing Scales of Transiencen Wulik River, Alaska 89
23. Transient Rivers Bungle Bungle 93
24. Amazon I Flood Pulse of the World’s Greatest River 97
25. Amazon II Várzea of the Rio Napo 103
26. Amazon III Igapó of the Rio Ampiyacu 109
27. Black Water Swamp in Autumn Congaree National Park, South Carolina 115
28. Flowing Rivers Missouri River, Montana 119
29. Negev Desert, Israel 123
30. Motion and Fixity Shortgrass Prairie, Northeastern Colorado 127
31. Seven Billion and Counting
32. Terra Nova Hawai’i 133
33. Old-Growth Forest Stream, Colorado Front Range 139
34. Vernal Pond, Northeastern Ohio 143
35. Watershed Upper Rio Chagres, Panama 147
36. Refuge Coweeta Forest, North Carolina 153
37. Altering the River’s Pulse North Fork Poudre River, Colorado 157
38. Rivers and Oceans Broome, Australia 163
39. Beaver Meadow, Rocky Mountain National Park 167
40. Twilight of the Mountain Glaciers Sermiligâq Fjord, Greenland 173
41. Deep, Dark Forest Temperate Rain Forest of Northwestern Montana 179
42. Vanishing Wonderland Great Barrier Reef, Australia 183
43. Rio Pequeño? Big Bend National Park, Texas 187
44. Rannoch Moor, Scottish Highlands 191
45. Wild Gardens The Moorlands of Northern Britain 195
46. Missing Pieces Italian Dolomites 199
47. Shrinking Ecosystem Kruger National Park, South Africa 205
48. Y2K in the Thar Desert, India 211
49. Mountain Pine Beetles in the Colorado Front Range 217
50. Living with Transience
51. Selected References 225
52. Index 235