Wysession, Michael E. 1961- creator Teaching Company text bibliography vau 2008 monographic eng

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2 volumes ; 19 cm. [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. [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. Michael E. Wysession. Course No. 1750 "Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Front cover. Includes bibliographies. Geology Historical geology Geophysics Geomorphology Educación Enseñanza Geología Geología histórica Persecuciones religiosas Historia Geomorfología LB 14.6 W994h 2008 9781598034073 (set) 1598034073 (set) 2011499736 DLC 111123 20241029132441.0 17056430 eng