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04091aim a2200493La 4500 001 2F54AD44C23C11E493B6BB8BDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161106145606 007 sd fungnnmmned 008 141201s2013 vaunnnn lh n eng d 020 $a 1490650520 020 $a 9781490650524 028 01 $a GC0050 $b Recorded Books 028 01 $a 1740 $b Teaching Co. 035 $a (OCoLC)898127610 040 $a RECBX $b eng $c RECBX $d OCLCO $d JUH $d SILO 043 $a x------ 100 1 $a Hazen, Robert M., $d 1948- 245 14 $a The origin and evolution of earth $h [CD book] : $b from the big bang to the future of human existence / $c Robert M. Hazen. 246 30 $a From the big bang to the future of human existence 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a [Chantilly, Va.] : $b Teaching Company ; $c c2013. 300 $a 24 sound discs (ca. 24 hr.) : $b digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 490 0 $a The great courses. Science & mathematics. Earth science 490 1 $a The great courses 500 $a Title from container. 511 0 $a Lecturer: Professor Robert M. Hazen. 500 $a The length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 48 lectures. 520 $a Examines Earth's origin from simple atoms that were created in the big bang, transformed into heavy elements in stellar explosions, then forged into a planet inside the nebula that gave birth to the solar system. Like many other planets, Earth went through phases of melting, volcanism, and bombardment by asteroids. But only on Earth did events lead to a flourishing biosphere--life. And once life was established, it drove the evolution of our planet in startling new directions. 505 0 $a 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 505 8 $a Plate tectonics changes everything -- Geochemistry to biochemistry: raw materials -- Biomolecules: select, concentrate, assemble -- Why reproductions? world enough and time -- Eons, eras, and strategies of early life -- Red Earth: the great oxidation event -- 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 -- 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 -- From the "Great dying" to dinosaurs -- Impact: from dinosaurs to mammals -- Humans and the antropocene epoch -- The next 5 billion years -- The nearer future -- Coevolution of geosphere and biosphere. 651 0 $a Earth (Planet) $x Origin. 650 0 $a Historical geology. 655 7 $a Audiobooks. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Science & Technology. $2 local 655 7 $a Nature. $2 local 655 7 $a Nonfiction. $2 local 710 2 $a Teaching Company. 710 2 $a Recorded Books, LLC. 830 0 $a Great courses (Compact disc) 941 $a 1 945 $a cdab 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20150304010348.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2F54AD44C23C11E493B6BB8BDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search