| Description |
8 videodiscs (approximately 1400 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (viii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm) |
| Series |
Great courses. Science & mathematics |
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Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.
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| System Details |
DVD. |
| Note |
48 lectures (30 minutes each) on 8 discs. |
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Course guidebook contains lecture outlines, time line, chart of eras and stages of mineral evolution, and bibliographical references (pages 329-335). |
| Contents |
Disc 1. Mineralogy and a new view of Earth -- Origin and evolution of the early universe -- Origins of the elements: nucleosynthesis -- Ur-minerals, first crystals in the cosmos -- Presolar dust grains: chemistry begins -- Coming to grips with deep time -- |
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Disc 2. The birth of the solar system -- The early solar system: terrestrial planets -- Hints from the gas giants and their moons -- Meteorites: the oldest objects you can hold -- Mineral evolution: go, chondrite meteorites -- Meteorite types and planetesimals -- |
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Disc 3. Achondrites and geochemical affinities -- The accretion and differentiation of Earth -- How did the moon form? -- The big thwack -- The "big six" elements of early Earth -- The Black Earth: peridotite to basalt -- |
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Disc 4. Origins of the oceans -- Blue Earth and the water cycle -- Earth and Mars versus Mercury and the moon -- Gray Earth: clays and the rise of granite -- Earth's mineralogy takes off: pegmatites -- Moving continents and the rock cycle -- |
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Disc 5. Plate tectonics changes everything -- Geochemistry to biochemistry: raw materials -- Biomolecules: select, concentrate, assemble -- Why reproduction? World enough and time -- Eons, eras, and strategies of early life -- Red Earth: the great oxidation event -- |
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Disc 6. Earliest microbial and molecular fossils? -- Microbial mats and which minerals can form -- Earth's greatest mineral explosion -- The boring billion? cratons and continents -- The supercontinent cycle -- Feedback loops and tipping points -- |
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Disc 7. Snowball Earth and hothouse Earth -- The second great oxidation event -- Deep carbon: deep life, fuels, and methane -- Biominerals and early animals -- Between Rodinia and Pangaea: plants on land -- Life speeds up: oxygen and climate swings -- |
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Disc 8. From the "Great dying" to dinosaurs -- Impact: from dinosaurs to mammals -- Humans and the antropocene epoch -- The next 5 billion years -- The nearer future -- Coevolution of geosphere and biosphere. |
| Performer |
Lecturer: Robert M. Hazen, George Mazon University. |
| Summary |
Examines Earth's origin from simple atoms that were created in the big bang, transformed into heavy elements in stellar explosions, then forged into a planet inside the nebula that gave birth to the solar system. Like many other planets, Earth went through phases of melting, volcanism, and bombardment by asteroids. But only on Earth did events lead to a flourishing biosphere--life. And once life was established, it drove the evolution of our planet in startling new directions. |
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Earth (Planet) -- Origin -- Videodiscs.
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Historical geology -- Videodiscs.
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| Genre |
DVD-Video discs.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
9781629970219 |
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1629970212 |
| Music No. |
1740 Teaching Company |
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