How the Earth Works

How the Earth Works « Series from 2023

Series from 2023

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Genres: Historical, Unscripted, Documentary

We live on a planet that is constantly in motion—except we see it in extreme slow motion.

In this exciting course, you effectively speed up the action to witness the history of our planet unfold in spectacular detail, learning what the Earth is made of, where it came from, and, above all, how it works.

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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

Anatomy of an Earthquake—Sumatra