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Earth: Videos of a Planet DVD Contents

• Aspects of Eruption, Kilauea
• Gas, and Lava Eruption, Kilauea
• Lava Tubes, Kilauea
• Lava Flow along the Coast
• Sampling a Lava Flow
• Basalt Lava Flows
• Lava Crossing a Highway
• Lava Eruption at Night
• Lava Fountains
• Mount St. Helens 1980
• Hot Springs, Yellowstone
• Mudpots, Yellowstone
• Eruption of Old Faithful
• Volcanic Hazards, Mt Rainier
• Glacial Sculpting, Mt. Rainier
• Exposing an Igneous Pluton
• Debris Flows, Jiangjia Ravine
• Grand Canyon: Bird’s Eye View
• Rift Basin Formation
• Fault Development
• Pleistocene Ice Sheet
• Developing a Hurricane
• Hurricane Winds in Action
• Hurricane Storm Surge

Essentials of Geology, Second Edition Animations

• Chapter 2
• Basic Plate Boundaries
• NEW What a Geologist Sees: Plate Boundaries
• Formation of Ocean Crust
• Transform Faulting
• The Process of Subduction
• Hot Spot Volcanoes
• The Process of Rifting
• Chapter 3
• Mineral Growth
• Chapter 4
• NEW What a Geologist Sees: Antarctic Sill
• NEW What a Geologist Imagines: Volcanic Neck at Shiprock
• NEW What a Geologist Sees: Pluton at Torres del Paines
• Chapter 5
• NEW What a Geologist Sees: Contact between Basement and Cover
• NEW What a Geologist Sees: Formations in the Grand Canyon
• Formation of Cross Beds
• NEW What a Geologist Sees: Crossbeds
• Transgression and Regression
• What a Geologist Sees: Channel Deposits
• Chapter 6
• NEW Foliation in Metamorphic Rock
• What a Geologist Sees: Compositional Banding in Gnei
• Chapter 7
• NEW What a Geologist Imagines: Eruption of Vesuvius
• NEW Growth of a Stratovolcano
• Chapter 8
• Types of Faults
• NEW What a Geologist Sees: Offset Fence along San Andreas Fault
• Seismic Wave Motion
• How a Seismograph Works
• Chapter 9
• NEW Development of Strain (pure and simple shear)
• NEW What a Geologist Sees: Offset Stream Channel Along San Andreas Fault
• NEW What a Geologist Sees: Fault Offsetting
• NEW What a Geologist Sees: Thrust Fault
• NEW What a Geologist Sees: Horsts and Grabens
• NEW What a Geologist Sees: Desert Monocline
• Process of Folding
• NEW What a Geologist Sees: Fold Trains in Ireland
• NEW What a Geologist Sees: Flexural Fold
• NEW What a Geologist Sees: Flow Fold
• NEW What a Geologist Sees: Cleavage in an Anticline
• NEW What a Geologist Sees: Shear Movement
• NEW Development of a Collisional Mountain Belt
• Chapter 10
• Geologic History
• NEW What a Geologist Sees: Stratigraphic Column
• NEW What a Geologist Sees: Unconformity
• Types of Unconformity
• Chapter 12
• Oil Formation and Trapping
• Chapter 13
• NEW Cliff Retreat along the Coast
• Chapter 14
• Evolution of a Meandering Stream
• NEW What a Geologist Sees: Channeled Scablands
• Chapter 15
• NEW Beach Drift
• Chapter 18
• Glacial Advance and Retreat
• Milankovitch Cycles