03226cam a2200481 i 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700800410003401000170007502000240009202000210011604000230013704200080016005000250016808200080019310000340020113000220023524500490025726400580030630000240036433600210038833700250040933800230043444000220045749000220047950000200050150000600052150400290058150509780061050509050158865000130249365000240250665000160253065000190254665000160256565000160258165000160259765000270261365000410264065000200268171000210270183000220272217056430BJBSDDR20241029132441.0111123s2008    vau      b    000 0 eng    a  2011499736  a9781598034073 (set)  a1598034073 (set)  aDLCbengcDLCerda  apcc00aLB 14.6 bW994h 2008  23701 aWysession, Michael E.,d1961-  aThe Great Courses10aHow the earth works /cMichael E. Wysession. 1aChantilly, Virginia :bThe Teaching Company,c[2008].  a2 volumes ;c19 cm.  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  aThe Great Courses0 aThe great courses  aCourse No. 1750  a"Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Front cover.  aIncludes bibliographies.2 a[v.1] : Lectures 1-24. Geology's impact on history -- Geologic history--dating the earth -- Earth's structure--Journey to Earth's center -- Earth's heat--conduction and convection -- The basics of plate tectonics -- Making matter--the Big Bang and big bangs -- Creating Earth--recipe for a planet -- The rock cycle--matter in motion -- Minerals--the building blocks of rocks -- Magma--the building mush of rocks -- Crystallization--the rock cycle starts -- Volcanoes--lava and ash -- Folding--bending blocks, flowing rocks -- Earthquakes--examining Earth's faults -- Plate tectonics--why continents move -- The ocean seafloor--unseen lands -- Rifts and ridges--the creation of plates -- Transform faults--tears of a crust -- Subduction zones--recycling oceans -- Continents collide and mountains are made -- Intraplate volcanoes--finding the hot spots -- Destruction from volcanoes and earthquakes -- Predicting natural disasters -- Anatomy of a volcano--Mount St. Helens. 2 a[v.2] : Lectures 25-48.   Anatomy of an earthquake--Sumatra -- History of plate motions--where and why -- Assembling North America -- The sun-driven hydrologic cycle -- Water on Earth--the blue planet -- Earth's atmosphere--air and weather -- Erosion--weathering and land removal -- Jungles and deserts--feast or famine -- Mass wasting--rocks fall downhill -- Streams--shaping the land -- Groundwater--the invisible reservoir -- Shorelines--factories of sedimentary rocks.-- Glaciers--the power of ice -- Planetary wobbles and the last ice age -- Long-term climate change -- Short-term climate change -- Climate change and human history -- Plate tectonics and natural resources -- Nonrenewable energy sources -- Renewable energy sources -- Humans--dominating geologic change -- History of life--complexity and diversity -- The solar system--Earth's neighborhood -- The lonely planet--Fermi's paradox. 0aGeology. 0aHistorical geology. 0aGeophysics. 0aGeomorphology. 4aEducación 4aEnseñanza 4aGeología  4aGeología histórica 0aPersecuciones religiosas xHistoria  4aGeomorfología2 aTeaching Company  aThe Great Courses