Part I. Foundations: 1. Reading the record of the rocks
2. Perspective on time
Part II. Climate Past and Present: The Ice Age: 3. Climate and climate change
4. Portrait of an ice age
5. Explaining glaciations
Part III. Drifting Continents, Rising Mountains: 6. Continental drift and plate tectonics
7. Continental breakup and continental drift
8. Converging plates and colliding continents
Part IV. Changing Oceans, Changing Climates: 9. The sea comes in, the sea goes out
10. Other times and other oceans
11. Onward to the ice age
12. A matter of rhythm
Part V. The Four-Billion-Year Childhood: 13. Birth of the solid earth
14. Water for the sea, air for the atmosphere
15. The dawn of life
Part VI. Life, Time and Change: 16. Beyond Darwin
17. Bones of our ancestors
18. Evolution and environment
19. Crises and catastrophes.
