eology takes its time—a few million years. But there's one place where geological processes can occur before our eyes: the coast.
The Mississippi deposits sediment from 31 states into the Gulf of Mexico, creating the Delta, a crazy-quilt maze of islands, waterways and intricate channels. Violent Atlantic storms roar through the Outer Banks, changing the size and shape of barrier islands in an instant. The Pacific pounds against the shore, jack-hammering rocks into smithereens, carving California's dramatic coastal cliffs.
From San Padre Island on the Texas coast, to Louisiana's wetlands and Florida's tidal marshes, from North Carolina's Outer Banks to Chesapeake Bay, Cape Cod, the Maine Coast and the Great Lakes, from the Pismo Dunes, Big Sur and Point Reyes in California, to Desolation Sound in British Columbia to Yukatat Bay in Alaska, this is geology as you've never imagined it.
Award-winning aerial photographer Michael Collier piloted his single-engine Cessna thousands of miles around the edges of North America to bring back these stunning images of coastal landscapes. But Collier is also a geologist and a gifted science writer. His vivid text and clear captions tell how the action of waves, tides, wind and weather produce startling transformations.
Reading Over the Coasts you are left with a greater appreciation of nature’s wonders as well as a deeper understanding of their creation.

More Over The Coasts

White River below Augusta, Arkansas

Green River and Colorado River.,
Utah’s Canyonland National Park.