A Harvard geologist presents a narrative chronicle of the Earth's 4.6-billion-year evolution that places the environmental crises of today's world in a context that explains the planet's fragile capacity to support life.
An . . . Harvard geologist presents a narrative chronicle of the Earth's 4.6-billion-year evolution that places the environmental crises of [the recent] world in a context that explains the planet's fragile capacity to support life.
Takes viewers on a journey through Earth's evolution, revealing the geological processes that have shaped the planet from the Great Lakes to Iceland, the San Andreas Fault to Krakatoa.
"Transports readers billions of years into the past-- when ours was a hot, lifeless world-- and takes us on a grand tour of Earth through time"--Provided by publisher.
Journeys back in time to show the creation of the Earth's land masses, the birth of the first complex creatures, and mass extinctions, looking at the cataclysmic transformations the Earth has undergone in its long history.
Takes viewers on a journey through Earth's evolution. From the Great Lakes to Iceland, the San Andreas Fault to Krakatoa, this program reveals the geological processes that have shaped out planet.
Here's the real Jurassic Park. The complete story of the world, from the origin of the universe thorugh the beginnings of life, to the arrival of humans.
