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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Hazen, Robert M., 1948-     Subjects     Mineralogy.     Meteorites.     Hydrologic cycle.     Geochemical cycles.     Minerals -- History.     Dinosaurs -- Evolution.     Anthropogenic soils.     Biosphere.     Viability (Biology)     Life -- Origin.     Human beings -- Origin.     Ocean -- Origin.     Earth (Planet)     Earth (Planet) -- Age.     Earth (Planet) -- History.     Earth (Planet) -- Internal structure.     Earth (Planet) -- Origin.     Moon -- Origin.     Universe.     Universe -- Origin.     Solar system.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hazen, Robert M., 1948-       by title:      The origin and evolu...       by call number:      DVD 525 H429o     Search the Web     Hazen, Robert M., 1948-     Mineralogy.     Meteorites.     Hydrologic cycle.     Geochemical cycles.     Minerals -- History.     Dinosaurs -- Evolution.     Anthropogenic soils.     Biosphere.     Viability (Biology)     Life -- Origin.     Human beings -- Origin.     Ocean -- Origin.     Earth (Planet)     Earth (Planet) -- Age.     Earth (Planet) -- History.     Earth (Planet) -- Internal structure.     Earth (Planet) -- Origin.     Moon -- Origin.     Universe.     Universe -- Origin.     Solar system.       MARC Display

The origin and evolution of Earth [videorecording (DVD)] : from the Big Bang to the future of human existence / Robert M. Hazen. by Hazen, Robert M., 1948- Teaching Co., c2013. Call #: DVD 525 H429o Subjects Mineralogy.   Meteorites.   Hydrologic cycle.   Geochemical cycles.   Minerals -- History.   Dinosaurs -- Evolution.   Anthropogenic soils.   Biosphere.   Viability (Biology)   Life -- Origin.   Human beings -- Origin.   Ocean -- Origin.   Earth (Planet)   Earth (Planet) -- Age.   Earth (Planet) -- History.   Earth (Planet) -- Internal structure.   Earth (Planet) -- Origin.   Moon -- Origin.   Universe.   Universe -- Origin.   Solar system. Series Great courses (DVD)   Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Earth science. ISBN:  9781629970219 (set) Alternate title:  Great Courses. The origin and evolution of Earth [videorecording (DVD)] : from the Big Bang to the future of human existence Format:  [videorecording (DVD)] : Description:  8 videodiscs (ca. 24 hrs.) : digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (viii, 335 p. ; 19 cm.). Notes:  "48 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container. Book contains lecture transcripts and outlines, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography. Home use only. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Disc 8. From the 'great dying' to dinosaurs -- Impact! from dinosaurs to mammals -- Humans and the Anthropocene Epoch -- The next 5 billion years -- The nearer future -- Coevolution of Geosphere and Biosphere. Performers:  Lecturer, Professor Robert M. Hazen (Professor of Earth Sciences at George Mason University, a Senior Staff Scientist at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory). Summary:  In these forty-eight half-hour lectures you will follow the origin of the solar system, find out how and why other planets differ from Earth, and study mineral evolution, and much more. Genre:  Filmed lectures. Educational films. Science films. DVDs. Other authors:  Teaching Company. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Bedford Public Library Adult Nonfeature DVDs DVD 525 H429o Adult Dvds-21 Days Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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