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The world's greatest geological wonders/ Course Guide book/ 36 spectacular sites / Michael E. Wysession ; supervising producer Tony Kidenrick ; producer Charley Miller ; producer David C. White ; associate producers Jeff Katz, Maureen Tumbulty ; director Jonathan D. Leven.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: ID1712A-01 | Teaching CompanySeries: Great courses (DVD)Publisher: Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Company, [2013]Description: 6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
  • text
Media type:
  • video
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1598039806
  • 9781598039801
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 550 23
Contents:
Disc 1. 1. Santorini: impact of volcanic eruptions ; 2. Mount Fuji: steeping power ; 3. Galapagos Rift: wonders of mid-ocean ridges ; 4. African Rift Valley: cracks into the Earth ; 5. Arta Ale: compact fury of lava lakes ; 6. Burgess Shale: rocks and the keys to life -- Disc 2. 7. The Grand Canyon: Earth's layers ; 8. The Himalayas: mountains at Earth's roof ; 9. The Ganges delta: Earth's fertile lands ; 10. The Amazon Basin: lungs of the planet ; 11. Iguazu Falls: thundering waterfalls ; 12. Mammoth Cave: worlds underground -- Disc 3. 13. Cave of Crystals: exquisite caves ; 14. Great Blue Hole: coastal symmetry in sinkholes ; 15. Ha Long Bay: dramatic karst landscapers ; 16. Bryce Canyon: creative carvings of erosion ; 17. Uluru/Ayers Rock: sacred nature of rocks ; 18. Devils Tower: igneous enigmas -- Disc 4. 19. Antarctica: a world of ice ; 20. Columbia Glacier: unusual glacier cycles ; 21. Fiordland National Park: majestic fjords ; 22. Rock of Gibraltar: catastrophic floods ; 23. Bay of Fundy: inexorable cycle of tides ; 24. Hawaii: volcanic island beauty -- Disc 5. 25. Yellowstone: geysers and hot springs ; 26. Kawah Ijen: world's most acid lake ; 27. Iceland: where fire meets ice ; 28. The Maldives: geologic paradox ; 29. The Dead Sea: sinking and saintly ; 30. Salar de Uyuni: flattest place on Earth -- Disc 6: 31. Namib/Kalahari Deserts: sand mountains ; 32. Siwa Oasis: paradise amidst desolation ; 33. Auroras: light shadows on the edge of space ; 34. Arizona Meteor Crater: visitors from outer space ; 35. A Montage pg geologic mini wonders ; 36. Planetary wonders: out of this world.
Lecturer: Professor Michael E. Wysession, Washington University in St. Louis.Summary: "This course takes you to the world's most spectacular geological wonders, explains the forces that have formed them, and tells you the stories that have grown up around them."--page 1 of course guidebook.
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Course no. 1712.

Program contains thirty-six lectures; the length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min.

Lecture notes and program information contained in course guidebook.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-256) in course guidebook.

Disc 1. 1. Santorini: impact of volcanic eruptions ; 2. Mount Fuji: steeping power ; 3. Galapagos Rift: wonders of mid-ocean ridges ; 4. African Rift Valley: cracks into the Earth ; 5. Arta Ale: compact fury of lava lakes ; 6. Burgess Shale: rocks and the keys to life -- Disc 2. 7. The Grand Canyon: Earth's layers ; 8. The Himalayas: mountains at Earth's roof ; 9. The Ganges delta: Earth's fertile lands ; 10. The Amazon Basin: lungs of the planet ; 11. Iguazu Falls: thundering waterfalls ; 12. Mammoth Cave: worlds underground -- Disc 3. 13. Cave of Crystals: exquisite caves ; 14. Great Blue Hole: coastal symmetry in sinkholes ; 15. Ha Long Bay: dramatic karst landscapers ; 16. Bryce Canyon: creative carvings of erosion ; 17. Uluru/Ayers Rock: sacred nature of rocks ; 18. Devils Tower: igneous enigmas -- Disc 4. 19. Antarctica: a world of ice ; 20. Columbia Glacier: unusual glacier cycles ; 21. Fiordland National Park: majestic fjords ; 22. Rock of Gibraltar: catastrophic floods ; 23. Bay of Fundy: inexorable cycle of tides ; 24. Hawaii: volcanic island beauty -- Disc 5. 25. Yellowstone: geysers and hot springs ; 26. Kawah Ijen: world's most acid lake ; 27. Iceland: where fire meets ice ; 28. The Maldives: geologic paradox ; 29. The Dead Sea: sinking and saintly ; 30. Salar de Uyuni: flattest place on Earth -- Disc 6: 31. Namib/Kalahari Deserts: sand mountains ; 32. Siwa Oasis: paradise amidst desolation ; 33. Auroras: light shadows on the edge of space ; 34. Arizona Meteor Crater: visitors from outer space ; 35. A Montage pg geologic mini wonders ; 36. Planetary wonders: out of this world.

Lecturer: Professor Michael E. Wysession, Washington University in St. Louis.

"This course takes you to the world's most spectacular geological wonders, explains the forces that have formed them, and tells you the stories that have grown up around them."--page 1 of course guidebook.

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