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Pub. Date
c2006
Description
These 36 half-hour lectures are your initiation into the geological world that lies just outside your door. "The Nature of Earth: An Introduction to Geology" introduces you to physical geology, the study of Earth's minerals, rocks, soils, and the processes that operate on them through time.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Acclaimed filmmaker Darren Aronofsky and award-winning producer Jane Root present a cinematic event series hosted by Will Smith and featuring the only people who have left Earth behind: astronauts. Experience an epic tour-de-force around the globe and into space, revealing the extraordinary forces that make our planet function and allow life to thrive.
7) Ring of fire
Description
The story of the circle of volcanoes and seismic activity that rings the Pacific Ocean. Covers the birth of a volcano in Chile, the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens, an evacuation drill and ash eruption in Japan, and the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Investigates the cause of the so-called Permian extinction, which wiped out 95% of all life on Earth 250 million years ago. Archaeologists, historians and geologists discuss their findings about the nature of the 3-stage process. Filmed in South Africa, Siberia, Iceland, Greenland, Antarctica and the Alps. Reconstructions of volcanic eruptions.
11) Core geology
Pub. Date
2007
Description
In Core Geology, the building blocks of this most contemporary science are laid out in a logical order, including the meaning of the fossil record.
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Of all continents on Earth, none preserves a more spectacular story of its origins than Australia. With help from high-energy host and geologist Richard Smith, we meet titanic dinosaurs and giant kangaroos, sea monsters and prehistoric crustaceans, disappearing mountains and deadly asteroids. Epic in scope, intimate in nature, this is the untold story of the Land Down Under, the one island continent that has got it all.
18) Flood geology
Series
Pub. Date
♭2007
Description
"The earth today carries many remnants and signposts of the great Flood of Noah. Massive fields of fossils buried suddenly, weather patterns recorded in polar ice, continent-wide layers of sediment that are uncovered today as rock layers--all echo the worldwide judgment of God as recorded in Genesis."--Container.
20) One strange rock
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Acclaimed filmmaker Darren Aronofsky and award-winning producer Jane Root present a cinematic event series hosted by Will Smith and featuring the only people who have left Earth behind: astronauts. Experience an epic tour-de-force around the globe and into space, revealing the extraordinary forces that make our planet function and allow life to thrive.