United States
Grand Canyon
Separate the age of the rock layers from the cutting of the canyon.
An illustrated connection
The Earth is still making this
Look at landscapes as processes, not finished objects.
Photograph
Lennart Sikkema · CC BY 3.0What is still changing, and at what scale?
Dunes shift, water cuts, ice moves and organisms build. An impressive view is a moment in a continuing story. Compare the scales of those changes while keeping the age of a rock separate from the age of its present shape.
Follow the question
United States
Yellowstone National Park
Observe the varied surface expressions of heat, water and plumbing.
Namibia
Namib Desert & Sossusvlei
Follow ripples, dunes and the wider movement of sand.
Iceland
Iceland's Golden Circle
Read an Icelandic landscape through interacting processes.
Argentina & Chile
Patagonia & Perito Moreno Glacier
Consider ice as a moving participant in the landscape.
Australia
Great Barrier Reef
Change scale from a coral colony to a reef system.
United Kingdom
Giant’s Causeway
Let a repeated rock pattern raise a geological question.
New Zealand
Fiordland National Park
Compare the form of a valley with the process that shaped it.
Make the comparison your own
Three ways to look
- Describe one visible detail before interpreting it.
- Find an official explanation for something you could not establish from appearance alone.
- Compare two places while preserving what makes each distinctive.
A shared question can make a rewarding reading journey even when the places do not belong in the same holiday. Use the journey tools only after checking the actual transport connections.