How the Earth works. Part 3 of 4.
Title:
How the Earth works. Part 3 of 4.
ISBN:
9781598034066
Publication Information:
Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., [2008]
©2008
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook.
General Note:
Lectures 25-36 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. 3. Lecture 25. Anatomy of an earthquake : Sumatra -- Lecture 26. History of plate motions : where and why -- Lecture 27. Assembling North America -- Lecture 28. The Sun-driven hydrologic cycle -- Lecture 29. Water on Earth : the Blue Planet -- Lecture 30. Earth's atmosphere : air and weather -- Lecture 31. Erosion : weathering and land removal -- Lecture 32. Jungles and deserts : feast or famine -- Lecture 33. Mass wasting : rocks fall downhill -- Lecture 34. Streams : shaping the land -- Lecture 35. Groundwater : the invisible reservoir -- Lecture 36. Shorelines : factories of sedimentary rocks.
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:
ocn226375834
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