How the earth works. Part 2 of 4.
Title:
How the earth works. Part 2 of 4.
ISBN:
9781598034066
Edition:
Library edition.
Publication Information:
Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., [2008]
©2008
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook.
General Note:
Lectures 13-24 of 48 thirty minute lectures on 8 discs in 4 containers.
Course guidebook includes lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.
DVD format.
Contents:
Pt. 2. Lecture 13. Folding : bending blocks, flowing rocks -- Lecture 14. Earthquakes : examining Earth's faults -- Lecture 15. Plate techtonics : why continents move -- Lecture 16. The Ocean seafloor : unseen lands -- Lecture 17. Rifts and ridges : the creation of plates -- Lecture 18. Transform faults : tears of a crust -- Lecture 19. Subduction zones : recycling oceans -- Lecture 20. Continents collide and mountains are made -- Lecture 21. Intraplate volcanoes : finding the hot spots -- Lecture 22. Destruction from volcanoes and earthquakes -- Lecture 23. Predicting natural disasters -- Lecture 24. Anatomy of a volcano : Mount St. Helens.
Summary:
Course covers the making of our planet from the Big Bang, to the formation of the solar system, to the subsequent evolution of Earth. Travel to the center of our planet and out again, charting the geologic forces that churn beneath our feet to push the continents and seafloor.
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Performer:
Taught by: Professor Michael E. Wysession, Washington University in St. Louis.
OCLC Number:
ocn226375735
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