How the earth works
By: Professor Michael E. Wysession
Series: The great courses
Publisher: The Teaching Company
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chantilly, Virginia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781598034073
Subjects: Geomorphology; Geophysics; Historical geology; Geology
Notes: "Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Front cover.

Inlcudes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Geology's impact on history; title: Geologic history; title: dating the earth; title: Earth's structure; title: Journey to Earth's center; title: Earth's heat; title: conduction and convection; title: The basics of plate tectonics; title: Making matter; title: the Big Bang and big bangs; title: Creating Earth; title: recipe for a planet; title: The rock cycle; title: matter in motion; title: Minerals; title: the building blocks of rocks; title: Magma; title: the building mush of rocks; title: Crystallization; title: the rock cycle starts; title: Volcanoes; title: lava and ash.; title: Part 2. Folding; title: bending blocks, flowing rocks; title: Earthquakes; title: examining Earth's faults; title: Plate tectonics; title: why continents move; title: The ocean seafloor; title: unseen lands; title: Rifts and ridges; title: the creation of plates; title: Transform faults; title: tears of a crust; title: Subduction zones; title: recycling oceans; title: Continents collide and mountains are made; title: Intraplate volcanoes; title: finding the hot spots; title: Destruction from volcanoes and earthquakes; title: Predicting natural disasters; title: Anatomy of a volcano; title: Mount St. Helens.; title: Part 3. Anatomy of an earthquake; title: Sumatra; title: History of plate motions; title: where and why; title: Assembling North America; title: The sun-driven hydrologic cycle; title: Water on Earth; title: the blue planet; title: Earth's atmosphere; title: air and weather; title: Erosion; title: weathering and land removal; title: Jungles and deserts; title: feast or famine; title: Mass wasting; title: rocks fall downhill; title: Streams; title: shaping the land; title: Groundwater; title: the invisible reservoir; title: Shorelines; title: factories of sedimentary rocks.; title: Part 4. Glaciers; title: the power of ice; title: Planetary wobbles and the last ice age; title: Long-term climate change; title: Short-term climate change; title: Climate change and human history; title: Plate tectonics and natural resources; title: Nonrenewable energy sources; title: Renewable energy sources; title: Humans; title: dominating geologic change; title: History of life; title: complexity and diversity; title: The solar system; title: Earth's neighborhood; title: The lonely planet; title: Fermi's paradox.