List of Animations
- PART I: Our Island in Space
- Ch 1 Wandering Planet
- Ch 1 Pole Star
- Ch 1 Doppler Effect
- Ch 1 Red Shift
- Ch 1 Solar System Formation
- Ch 2 Mass of Earth Experiment
- Ch 3 Wegener-Continental Drift
- Ch 3 Bullard Fit of Continents
- Ch 3 Magnetic Reversals
- Ch 3 Wandering Poles or Drifting Continents?
- Ch 3 Sea Floor Spreading
- Ch 4 Basic Plate Boundaries
- Ch 4 What A Geologist Sees: Plate Boundaries
- Ch 4 Formation of Ocean Crust
- Ch 4 Transform Faulting
- Ch 4 The Process of Subduction
- Ch 4 Hot Spot Volcanoes
- Ch 4 The Process of Rifting
- PART II: Earth Materials
- Ch 5 Mineral Growth
- Ch 5 Crystallization
- Ch 6 Formation of Igneous Rocks at Mid-Ocean Ridges
- Ch 6 What a Geologist Sees: Antarctic Sill
- Ch 6 What A Geologist Imagines: Volcanic Neck at Shiprock
- Ch 6 What A Geologist Sees: Pluton at Torres del Paines
- Ch 7 What A Geologist Sees: Contact Between Basement and Cover
- Ch 7 What a Geologist Sees: Formations in the Grand Canyon
- Ch 7 What a Geologist Sees: Crossbeds
- Ch 7 Formation of Cross Beds
- Ch 7 Transgression and Regression
- Ch 7 What A Geologist Sees: Channel Deposits
- Ch 8 Foliation in Metamorphic Rock
- PART III: Tectonic Activity of a Dynamic Planet
- Ch 9 What a Geologist Imagines: Eruption of Vesuvius
- Ch 9 Growth of A Stratovolcano
- Ch 10 Types of Faults
- Ch 10 What A Geologist Sees: Offset Fence along San Andreas Fault
- Ch 10 Seismic Wave Motion
- Ch 10 How a Seismograph Works
- Ch 11 Development of Strain (pure and simple shear)
- Ch 11 What A Geologist Sees: Offset Stream Channel Along San Andreas Fault
- Ch 11 What A Geologist Sees: Fault Offsetting
- Ch 11 What A Geologist Sees: Thrust Fault
- Ch 11 What A Geologist Sees: Horsts and Grabens
- Ch 11 What a Geologist Sees: Desert monocline
- Ch 11 Process of Folding
- Ch 11 What a Geologist Sees: Fold Trains in Ireland
- Ch 11 What A Geologist Sees: Flexural Fold
- Ch 11 What A Geologist Sees: Flow Fold
- Ch 11 What A Geologist Sees: Cleavage in an Anticline
- Ch 11 What A Geologist Sees: Shear movement
- Ch 11 Development of A Collisional Mountain Belt
- PART IV: History Before History
- Ch 12 Geologic History
- Ch 12 What A Geologist Sees: Stratigraphic Column
- Ch 12 What A Geologist Sees: Unconformity
- Ch 12 Types of Unconformity
- PART V: Earth Resources
- Ch 14 Oil Formation and Trapping
- PART VI: Processes and Problems at Earth’s Surface
- Ch 16 Cliff Retreat Along the Coast
- Ch 17 Evolution of a Meandering Stream
- Ch 17 What A Geologist Sees: Channeled Scablands
- Ch 18 Tides
- Ch 18 Beach Drift
- Ch 22 Glacial Advance and Retreat
- Ch 22 Milankovitch Cycles
- Ch 23 Snowball Earth
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