Introduction : The Great Cut across the Face of Nature -- Yawning, Abysmal Gullies -- The Most Picturesque Features of the Coastal Plain : Geologists Arrive at Providence Canyon -- Rough, Gullied Land : Soil Scientists Arrive at Providence Canyon -- A Land That Nature Built for Tourists -- Giving Fame and Focus to the Fact of Soil Erosion -- Gullies and What They Mean -- Somewhere between the Grand Canyon and a Sickening Void -- Epilogue : The Ecology of Erasure
