Presents comprehensive details of crime scene investigation through the field of forensic geology and provides information on its history and how geologic evidence can place a suspect at the site, and techniques use to detect mine, gem, and art fraud.
Information about the ways nature and humans are making changes to the landscape around the world, sometimes quickly -- earthquakes or quarrying, sometimes more slowly -- cave formation and erosion or desert reclamation.
Text and activities explore various aspects of the earth, including rocks and minerals, forces that change the landscape, fossils, and the structure and movement of the earth.
Photographs and text provide information about paleontologist Tony Coates and other scientists who are working with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute to learn the history of the Isthmus of Panama.