The Origin and Evolution of Earth: From the Big Bang to the Future of Human Existence

Professor Robert M. Hazen

ISBN 10: 1629970220 ISBN 13: 9781629970226

Publisher: teaching company the great courses, 2013

Synopsis

48 Lectures 1Mineralogy and a New View of Earth 2Origin and Evolution of the Early Universe 3Origins of the Elements-Nucleosynthesis 4Ur-Minerals, First Crystals in the Cosmos 5Presolar Dust Grains-Chemistry Begins 6Coming to Grips with Deep Time 7The Birth of the Solar System 8The Early Solar System-Terrestrial Planets 9Hints from the Gas Giants and Their Moon 10Meteorites-The Oldest Objects You Can Hold 11Mineral Evolution, Go! Chondrite Meteorites 12Meteorite Types and Planetesimal 13Achondrites and Geochemical Affinities 14The Accretion and Differentiation of Earth 15How Did the Moon Form? 16The Big Thwack! 17The "Big Six" Elements of Early Earth 18The Black Earth-Peridotite to Basalt 19Origins of the Oceans 20Blue Earth and the Water Cycle 21Earth and Mars versus Mercury and the Moon 22Gray Earth-Clays and the Rise of Granite 23Earth's Mineralogy Takes Off-Pegmatites 24Moving Continents and the Rock Cycle 25Plate Tectonics Changes Everything 26Geochemistry to Biochemistry-Raw Materials 27Biomolecules-Select, Concentrate, Assemble 28Why Reproduction? World Enough and Time 29Eons, Eras, and Strategies of Early Life 30Red Earth-The Great Oxidation Event 31Earliest Microbial and Molecular Fossils? 32Microbial Mats and Which Minerals Can Form 33Earth's Greatest Mineral Explosion 34The Boring Billion? Cratons and Continents 35The Supercontinent Cycle 36Feedback Loops and Tipping Points 37Snowball Earth and Hothouse Earth 38The Second Great Oxidation Event 39Deep Carbon-Deep Life, Fuels, and Methane 40Biominerals and Early Animals 41Between Rodinia and Pangaea-Plants on Land 42Life Speeds Up-Oxygen and Climate Swings 43From the "Great Dying" to Dinosaurs 44Impact! From Dinosaurs to Mammals 45Humans and the Anthropocene Epoch 46The Next 5 Billion Years 47The Nearer Future 48Coevolution of Geosphere and Biosphere

About this edition

• Publisher: teaching company the great courses
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1629970220
• ISBN 13: 9781629970226
• Binding: Audio CD