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Publisher
Alpha DVD
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
An educational program about Earth's geology. Introduces a number of geologic concepts including: basin & range, continental crust, crustal spread, earthquakes, erosion, exotic terrain, geologic time, glaciers, granite batholiths, MOHO, pillow lava, plate tectonics, rifts, subduction zones, volcanic activity, and xenoliths.
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
There is one place on our planet where nearly two billion years of natural history are set forth in a unique and breathtaking display: the region of the Grand Canyon, 80,000 square miles of the most spectacular terrain on Earth. So vast is this geological wonder, so endlessly rich in variety and contrast, that the best efforts of countless photographers have never quite succeeded in conveying its true dimensions -- until now.
Publisher
Nine Films and Television
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Our planet has been shaped by powerful elemental forces, of earth, fire, ice, water, and wind. Over millions of years, they have given rise to natural icons of immense grandeur and variety. Mount Everest, Jordan's Dead Sea, Rotorua's boiling mud pools, Indonesia's archipelago, Sossusvlei's dunes, the Northern Lights, the Rockies, the Amazon, Antarctica, and more. Throughout six episodes, we travel worldwide, exploring. The icons are as different as...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From Oscar-winning director Luc Jacquet (*March of the Penguins*) comes a stirring portrait of French glaciologist Claude Lorius whose groundbreaking research in Antarctica gave us the first clear evidence of man-made global climate change. Through remarkable archival footage and stunning drone cinematography, this is an epic tale where science and adventure meet, equal parts contemplative memoir and an ardent call to action. Nominated for a...
89) Life story
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2009].
Language
English
Description
Examines and explains how life on Earth came to be and how the Earth and life on it developed and evolved throughout time, told through a play with five acts and a prologue.
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story. Placing twenty first-century climate change in deep context, A Brief History of Earth is an indispensable look at where we've been and where we're going."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In her third story, Luciana and her family are headed to Chile for winter break. Luci can't wait to see her cousins - but the reunion doesn't go as planned, and Luci feels like an outsider in her own family. Just then she receives a surprise invite from Claire Jacobs, her frenemy from astronaut training camp, to join her at the Mars habitat in the desert and watch NASA scientists at work. It's an offer too good to refuse, so Luci decides to leave...
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