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Four Billion Years in the Making ...
Continents move. Glacial cycles come and go. Mountains form and
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How the Earth Works
Taught by Professor Michael E. Wysession, Washington University in St. Louis
Lecture Titles
1. Geology’s Impact on History 23. Predicting Natural Disasters
2. Geologic History—Dating the Earth 24. Anatomy of a Volcano—Mount St. Helens
3. Earth’s Structure—Journey to the Center 25. Anatomy of an Earthquake—Sumatra
4. Earth’s Heat—Conduction and Convection 26. History of Plate Motions— Where and Why
5. The Basics of Plate Tectonics 27. Assembling North America
6. Making Matter— 28. The Sun-Driven Hydrologic Cycle
The Big Bang and Big Bangs 29. Water on Earth—The Blue Planet
7. Creating Earth—Recipe for a Planet 30. Earth’s Atmosphere—Air and Weather
8. The Rock Cycle—Matter in Motion 31. Erosion— Weathering and Land Removal
9. Minerals— The Building Blocks of Rocks 32. Jungles and Deserts—Feast or Famine
10. Magma— The Building Mush of Rocks 33. Mass Wasting—Rocks Fall Downhill
11. Crystallization— The Rock Cycle Starts 34. Streams—Shaping the Land
12. Volcanoes—Lava and Ash 35. Groundwater— The Invisible Reservoir
13. Folding—Bending Blocks, Flowing Rocks 36. Shorelines—Factories of Sedimentary Rocks
14. Earthquakes—Examining Earth’s Faults 37. Glaciers— The Power of Ice
15. Plate Tectonics— Why Continents Move 38. Planetary Wobbles and the Last Ice Age
16. The Ocean Seafloor—Unseen Lands 39. Long- Term Climate Change
17. Rifts and Ridges— The Creation of Plates 40. Short- Term Climate Change
18. Transform Faults— Tears of a Crust 41. Climate Change and Human History
19. Subduction Zones—Recycling Oceans 42. Plate Tectonics and Natural Resources
20. Continents Collide and 43. Nonrenewable Energy Sources
Mountains Are Made 44. Renewable Energy Sources
21. Intraplate Volcanoes— 45. Humans—Dominating Geologic Change
Finding the Hot Spots 46. History of Life—Complexity and Diversity
22. Destruction from Volcanoes 47. The Solar System—Earth’s Neighborhood
and Earthquakes 48. The Lonely Planet—Fermi’s Paradox
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