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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Label

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

Title remainder

from the big bang to the future of human existence

Medium

sound recording

Statement of responsibility

Robert M. Hazen

Instantiates

• The origin and evolution of earth : from the big bang to the future of human existence

Publication

• Chantilly, VA, The Teaching Company, 2013

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

Record ID

• 3861519
• 3861519

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