geology

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What's inside the Earth?

1995
This video tells about continental drift, the cracks in the earth's crust, earthquakes, mountain formation, fossils, lava, igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks, and more.

THE EARTH

1969
The earth as a planet of the sun, its origin, structure, and the nature of its surface.

Geology

investigating the science of the Earth
Introduces young readers to the basics of geology, covering ancient ideas about the world, Neptunists, theories, and more.
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Geology

the study of rocks
Discusses glaciers, oceans, volcanoes, rocks, minerals, earthquakes, and the history of the Earth.
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A trip to the center of the Earth

Describes the layers of Earth from the surface to the inner core.
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Explore the world of forces of nature

Examines how mountains form, why volcanoes erupt, glaciers flow, how the Grand Canyon formed, and how other general forces of nature occur.
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How mountains are made

Explains how mountains are formed through plate tectonics and worn down by millions of years of rain, wind, and ice.
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The field guide to geology

A guide to the components and processes that contributed to Earth's development, using illustrations and text to discuss the planet's origins and raw materials, Earth's crust, igneous and sedimentary rocks, processes that displace and transform crustal rocks, the effects of weather, rivers, the sea, glaciers, and ice sheets, the rock record, and the work of geologists.
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A field manual for the amateur geologist

tools and activities for exploring our planet
A guide-book describing geological features, how to study the earth's history, and suggests projects and activities.

Underland

a deep time journey
2019
"An . . . exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. From the birth of the universe to a post-human future, from the prehistoric art of Norwegian sea caves to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap, from Bronze Age funeral chambers to the catacomb labyrinth below Paris, and from the underground fungal networks through which trees communicate to a deep-sunk 'hiding place' where nuclear waste will be stored for 100,000 years to come"--OCLC.
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