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The Resource The origin and evolution of earth : from the big bang to the future of human existence, Robert M. Hazen, (sound recording)

The origin and evolution of earth : from the big bang to the future of human existence, Robert M. Hazen, (sound recording)

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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
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
24 audio discs (approximately 24 hr.)
Note
  • Compact discs and guidebook
  • Title from disc surface
  • Forty-eight lectures (30 min. each)
Contents
  • Coming to grips with Deep Time
  • disc 4:
  • The birth of the Solar System
  • The early Solar System: terrestrial planets
  • disc 5:
  • Hints from the gas giants
  • Meteorites: the oldest objects you can hold
  • disc 6
  • Mineral evolution, go! chondrite meteorites
  • Meteorite types and planetesimals
  • Disc 1:
  • disc 7:
  • Achondrites and geochemical affinities
  • The accretion and differentiation of Earth
  • disc 8:
  • How did the moon form?
  • The big thwack!
  • disc 9:
  • The "Big Six" elements of early Earth
  • The black Earth: peridotite to Basalt
  • disc 10:
  • Mineralogy and a new view of Earth
  • Origins of the oceans
  • Blue Earth and the water cycle
  • disc 11:
  • Earth and Mars versus Mercury and the moon
  • Gray Earth: clays and the rise of Granite
  • disc 12:
  • Earth's mineralogy takes off: pegmatites
  • Moving continents and the rock cycle
  • disc 13:
  • Plate tectonics changes everything
  • Origin and evolution of the early universe
  • Geochemistry to biochemistry: raw materials
  • disc 14:
  • Biomolecules: select, concentrate, assemble
  • Why reproduction? world enough time
  • disc 15:
  • Eons, eras, and strategies of early life
  • Red Earth: the great oxidation event
  • disc 16:
  • Earliest microbial and molecular fossils?
  • Microbial mats and which minerals can form
  • disc 2:
  • disc 17:
  • Earth's greatest mineral explosion
  • The boring billion? cratons and continents
  • 18:
  • The supercontinent cycle
  • Feedback loops and tipping points
  • disc 19:
  • Snowball Earth and hothouse Earth
  • The second great oxidation event
  • disc 20:
  • Origins of the elements: nucleosynthesis
  • Deep carbon: deep life, fuels, and methane
  • Biominerals and early animals
  • disc 21:
  • Between Rodinia and Pangaea: plants on land
  • Life speeds up: oxygen and climate swings
  • disc 22:
  • From the "Great dying" to dinosaurs
  • Impact! from dinosaurs to mammals
  • disc 23:
  • Humans and the anthropocene epoch
  • Ur-minerals, first crystals in the cosmos
  • The next 5 billion years
  • disc 24:
  • The nearer future
  • Coevolution of geosphere and biosphere
  • disc 3:
  • Presolar dust grains: chemistry begins
Isbn
9781629970226
Instance
Label
The origin and evolution of earth : from the big bang to the future of human existence
Title
The origin and evolution of earth
Title remainder
from the big bang to the future of human existence
Statement of responsibility
Robert M. Hazen
Title variation
From the big bang to the future of human existence
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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
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Accompanying matter
bibliography
Cataloging source
NTG
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1948-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Hazen, Robert M.
Dewey number
550
Form of composition
not applicable
Format of music
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Literary text for sound recordings
lectures speeches
Music parts
not applicable
PerformerNote
Lecturer: Professor Robert M. Hazen, professor of earth sciences at George Mason University
Series statement
The great courses; Science & mathematics; Earth science
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Historical geology
  • Earth sciences
  • Earth (Planet)
Target audience
adult
Transposition and arrangement
not applicable
Label
The origin and evolution of earth : from the big bang to the future of human existence, Robert M. Hazen, (sound recording)
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • Compact discs and guidebook
  • Title from disc surface
  • Forty-eight lectures (30 min. each)
Accompanying material
1 course guidebook (viii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Capture and storage technique
unknown
Carrier category
  • audio disc
  • volume
Carrier category code
  • sd
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
  • rdacarrier
  • rdacarrier
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
Content category
  • spoken word
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • spw
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
  • Coming to grips with Deep Time
  • disc 4:
  • The birth of the Solar System
  • The early Solar System: terrestrial planets
  • disc 5:
  • Hints from the gas giants
  • Meteorites: the oldest objects you can hold
  • disc 6
  • Mineral evolution, go! chondrite meteorites
  • Meteorite types and planetesimals
  • Disc 1:
  • disc 7:
  • Achondrites and geochemical affinities
  • The accretion and differentiation of Earth
  • disc 8:
  • How did the moon form?
  • The big thwack!
  • disc 9:
  • The "Big Six" elements of early Earth
  • The black Earth: peridotite to Basalt
  • disc 10:
  • Mineralogy and a new view of Earth
  • Origins of the oceans
  • Blue Earth and the water cycle
  • disc 11:
  • Earth and Mars versus Mercury and the moon
  • Gray Earth: clays and the rise of Granite
  • disc 12:
  • Earth's mineralogy takes off: pegmatites
  • Moving continents and the rock cycle
  • disc 13:
  • Plate tectonics changes everything
  • Origin and evolution of the early universe
  • Geochemistry to biochemistry: raw materials
  • disc 14:
  • Biomolecules: select, concentrate, assemble
  • Why reproduction? world enough time
  • disc 15:
  • Eons, eras, and strategies of early life
  • Red Earth: the great oxidation event
  • disc 16:
  • Earliest microbial and molecular fossils?
  • Microbial mats and which minerals can form
  • disc 2:
  • disc 17:
  • Earth's greatest mineral explosion
  • The boring billion? cratons and continents
  • 18:
  • The supercontinent cycle
  • Feedback loops and tipping points
  • disc 19:
  • Snowball Earth and hothouse Earth
  • The second great oxidation event
  • disc 20:
  • Origins of the elements: nucleosynthesis
  • Deep carbon: deep life, fuels, and methane
  • Biominerals and early animals
  • disc 21:
  • Between Rodinia and Pangaea: plants on land
  • Life speeds up: oxygen and climate swings
  • disc 22:
  • From the "Great dying" to dinosaurs
  • Impact! from dinosaurs to mammals
  • disc 23:
  • Humans and the anthropocene epoch
  • Ur-minerals, first crystals in the cosmos
  • The next 5 billion years
  • disc 24:
  • The nearer future
  • Coevolution of geosphere and biosphere
  • disc 3:
  • Presolar dust grains: chemistry begins
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. +
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
Extent
24 audio discs (approximately 24 hr.)
Groove width / pitch
not applicable
Isbn
9781629970226
Kind of cutting
not applicable
Kind of disc cylinder or tape
mass produced
Kind of material
plastic with metal
Media category
  • audio
  • unmediated
Media MARC source
  • rdamedia
  • rdamedia
Media type code
  • s
  • n
Other control number
9781629970226
Other physical details
digital, CD audio
Publisher number
Course No. 1740
Special playback characteristics
digital recording
Specific material designation
sound disc
Speed
1.4m. per second (discs)
System control number
(OCoLC)1052634267
Tape configuration
not applicable
Tape width
not applicable
Label
The origin and evolution of earth : from the big bang to the future of human existence, Robert M. Hazen, (sound recording)
Publication
Note
  • Compact discs and guidebook
  • Title from disc surface
  • Forty-eight lectures (30 min. each)
Accompanying material
1 course guidebook (viii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Capture and storage technique
unknown
Carrier category
  • audio disc
  • volume
Carrier category code
  • sd
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
  • rdacarrier
  • rdacarrier
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
Content category
  • spoken word
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • spw
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
  • Coming to grips with Deep Time
  • disc 4:
  • The birth of the Solar System
  • The early Solar System: terrestrial planets
  • disc 5:
  • Hints from the gas giants
  • Meteorites: the oldest objects you can hold
  • disc 6
  • Mineral evolution, go! chondrite meteorites
  • Meteorite types and planetesimals
  • Disc 1:
  • disc 7:
  • Achondrites and geochemical affinities
  • The accretion and differentiation of Earth
  • disc 8:
  • How did the moon form?
  • The big thwack!
  • disc 9:
  • The "Big Six" elements of early Earth
  • The black Earth: peridotite to Basalt
  • disc 10:
  • Mineralogy and a new view of Earth
  • Origins of the oceans
  • Blue Earth and the water cycle
  • disc 11:
  • Earth and Mars versus Mercury and the moon
  • Gray Earth: clays and the rise of Granite
  • disc 12:
  • Earth's mineralogy takes off: pegmatites
  • Moving continents and the rock cycle
  • disc 13:
  • Plate tectonics changes everything
  • Origin and evolution of the early universe
  • Geochemistry to biochemistry: raw materials
  • disc 14:
  • Biomolecules: select, concentrate, assemble
  • Why reproduction? world enough time
  • disc 15:
  • Eons, eras, and strategies of early life
  • Red Earth: the great oxidation event
  • disc 16:
  • Earliest microbial and molecular fossils?
  • Microbial mats and which minerals can form
  • disc 2:
  • disc 17:
  • Earth's greatest mineral explosion
  • The boring billion? cratons and continents
  • 18:
  • The supercontinent cycle
  • Feedback loops and tipping points
  • disc 19:
  • Snowball Earth and hothouse Earth
  • The second great oxidation event
  • disc 20:
  • Origins of the elements: nucleosynthesis
  • Deep carbon: deep life, fuels, and methane
  • Biominerals and early animals
  • disc 21:
  • Between Rodinia and Pangaea: plants on land
  • Life speeds up: oxygen and climate swings
  • disc 22:
  • From the "Great dying" to dinosaurs
  • Impact! from dinosaurs to mammals
  • disc 23:
  • Humans and the anthropocene epoch
  • Ur-minerals, first crystals in the cosmos
  • The next 5 billion years
  • disc 24:
  • The nearer future
  • Coevolution of geosphere and biosphere
  • disc 3:
  • Presolar dust grains: chemistry begins
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. +
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
Extent
24 audio discs (approximately 24 hr.)
Groove width / pitch
not applicable
Isbn
9781629970226
Kind of cutting
not applicable
Kind of disc cylinder or tape
mass produced
Kind of material
plastic with metal
Media category
  • audio
  • unmediated
Media MARC source
  • rdamedia
  • rdamedia
Media type code
  • s
  • n
Other control number
9781629970226
Other physical details
digital, CD audio
Publisher number
Course No. 1740
Special playback characteristics
digital recording
Specific material designation
sound disc
Speed
1.4m. per second (discs)
System control number
(OCoLC)1052634267
Tape configuration
not applicable
Tape width
not applicable

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