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050 0 0 _aLB 14.6
_bW994h 2008
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100 1 _aWysession, Michael E.,
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130 _aThe Great Courses
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245 1 0 _aHow the earth works /
_cMichael E. Wysession.
264 1 _aChantilly, Virginia :
_bThe Teaching Company,
_c[2008].
300 _a2 volumes ;
_c19 cm.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
440 _aThe Great Courses
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490 0 _aThe great courses
500 _aCourse No. 1750
500 _a"Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Front cover.
504 _aIncludes bibliographies.
505 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.
505 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.
650 0 _aGeology.
650 0 _aHistorical geology.
650 0 _aGeophysics.
650 0 _aGeomorphology.
650 4 _aEducación
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650 4 _aEnseñanza
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650 4 _aGeología
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650 4 _aGeología histórica
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650 0 _aPersecuciones religiosas
_xHistoria
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650 4 _aGeomorfología
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710 2 _96101
_aTeaching Company
830 _aThe Great Courses
_96091
906 _a7
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