Scattered across the globe, on every continent, is a variety of natural features. This atlas examines the most spectacular of them using maps, photographs, and diagrams of how each was formed, from the ice caves of Czechoslovakia to the Himalayas in India, from the Great Rift Valley in Africa to America's Grand Canyon and San Andreas Fault, the reader can explore these natural creations in detail. Divided by continent, the book also investigates the ridges and trenches of the ocean floor, and looks at the history of the planet as whole.