Wonders of the National Parks: A Geology of North America

From Yellowstone to the Everglades, join geologist and National Geographic director Ford Cochran on a fascinating scientific tour of all of America's national parks.

• By This Professor
• 01: Yellowstone: Microcosm of the National Parks
• 02: Yellowstone's Cataclysmic Origins and Future
• 03: Grand Teton and Jackson Hole
• 04: Hawaii Volcanoes: Earth's Largest Mountains
• 05: The Hawaiian Islands and Maui's Haleakala
• 06: Mount Saint Helens, Lassen Volcanic, Rainier
• 07: Crater Lake, Olympic, North Cascades
• 08: Volcanoes of Alaska: Katmai and Lake Clark
• 09: Alaska's Glacier Bay and Kenai Fjords
• 10: Yosemite: Nature's Cathedral
• 11: Redwoods, Sequoias, and the Sierra Nevada
• 12: Pinnacles to Joshua Tree: The San Andreas
• 13: Denali to Gates of the Arctic
• 14: Death Valley and Great Basin: The Rift Zone
• 15: Shenandoah: The Collision of Old Continents
• 16: Great Smoky Mountains and Hot Springs
• 17: National Rivers: Gorges, Falls, and Meanders
• 18: Great Dune Fields of North America
• 19: National Seashores and Lakeshores
• 20: Reefs: Virgin Islands, Florida, Texas
• 21: National Marine Sanctuaries and Monuments
• 22: Acadia's Highlands and Islands
• 23: The Dakota Badlands
• 24: The Grand Canyon's 2-Billion-Year Staircase
• 25: Carving the Grand Canyon
• 26: Petrified Forest and Other Fossil Parks
• 27: Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Arches
• 28: Zion, Gunnison's Black Canyon, Capitol Reef
• 29: Mesa Verde and Ancient Settlements
• 30: The Colorado Rocky Mountains
• 31: Montana's Glacier and the Canadian Rockies
• 32: Big Bend on the Rio Grande and Saguaro
• 33: Mammoth Cave, Wind Cave, Carlsbad Caverns
• 34: The Everglades and the Congaree Bottomland
• 35: Voyageurs, Isle Royale, the Canadian Shield
• 36: Assembling North America, Park by Park