Geology [Earth SyStems]

Online Documentaries


Alien Life -- Kepler Space telescope search for alien life 45 minutes

"Drain The Ocean" -- History Channel 45 minutes

"Spaceship Earth" -- History Channel 45 minutes

"Grand Canyon" -- History Channel 45 minutes

"Great Lakes"-- History Channel 45 minutes

"Asteroids" -- History Channel 44 minutes

"Ocean Trenches" -- History Channel 44 minutes

"Mt. St. Helen's" -- History Channel 44 minutes

"America's Ice Age" -- History Channel 44 minutes

"America's Gold"  -- History Channel 44 minutes

"Death Valley" -- History Channel 44 minutes

"Birth of Earth"-- History Channel 44 minutes

"Mt. Everest: Himalayas" -- History Channel 44 minutes

"Krakatoa"  -- History Channel 44 minutes

"Siberian Traps: The eruptions that ended the Paleozoic" -- History Channel 44 minutes

"The Rockies" -- History Channel 44 minutes

"San Andreas Fault" -- History Channel 44 minutes

"Inside Planet Earth" -- Discovery doc which explores the earth's interior.

"Through the Wormhole" -- What happened before the beginning?

"Birth of Planet Earth" -- Naked science documentary

" Cosmic Voyage" -- Morgan Freeman narrates.

"Super Volcanoes" -- BBC doc.

"Magnetic Storm" -- PSB Nova

"Fossils: Magic in the Rocks" -- BBC David Attenborough 2 hours, 38 minutes

"Rift Valley" Discovery HD Showcase 15 minutes

Solar Flare


Introduction

How Edwin Hubble discovered our galaxy is just one among billions 7 minutes

Cosmic Voyage Morgan Freeman 36 minutes

Birth of Earth: How the Earth was Made 50 minutes


Rocks and Minerals

Igneous Rock textures

Igneous Rock chart

Rock and Mineral Identification  19 minutes

Common Minerals

Intro to Minerals 10:00 

The weathering of Granite 7:34

The Geology of the Avalon Peninsula

Sandstone 1:00 video

Sedimentary Rocks 1 hour

Mediterranean Evaporite deposits 2:34

Bonneville Salt Flats explained 7 minutes

Dikes and Sills (short)

Sills and Dikes Igneous Intrusions

Contact vs. Regional Metamorphism


Volcanoes

Iceland Basaltic volcano activity 57 seconds Jan. 17, 2015

Pompeii Recreation 8 minutes

Mt. St. Helen's Eruption 7 minutes

Mt. St. Helen's eruption explained 2:46


Relative Dating

Siccar Point 3:47

Siccar Point 3:27

James Hutton Ideas 10:04

Hutton's Discovery


Absolute Dating

Radiometric Dating video 7 minutes

How do we know how old the earth is? 5 minutes

Radiocarbon Dating 3 minutes

Radiocarbon Dating 6 minutes

PHET Build an Atom

PHET Radioactive Decay Game


Geologic Time

Planet of Life: Ancient Oceans-- 44 minutes

Geologic Time Scale

MSNBC: Interactive Time Scale

National Geographic: Prehistoric Time Line

PBS: A Brief History of Life

K-T Boundary Asteroid Impact Bill Nye 7 minutes

CNN Mistaken Point Video First Muscle Tissue 560 000 000 

How Life Started on Earth: Nova 45 minutes

Origins of Life: Nova with NDeGT 45 minutes

Catastrophe Episode 1 Birth of Earth 45 min

Catastrophe Episode 2 Snowball Earth 45 min

Catastrophe Episode 3 Permian Extinction 45 min

Catastrophe Episode 4 Cretaceous Extinction 45 min

Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives w David Attenborough Daily Motion Part 1


Radiometric dating

C14 decay

Types of radiation

Alpha decay 

Phet Decay Simulator: Good

Law of Radioactive Decay: Fendt Good

Decay Applet: Okay


Seismology

Refraction Video Pool


Simulations

Norton Site

Locating Earthquake Epicenters

A Brief History of Life

 Classzone

McGrawHill

 -- not as good as Norton

Houghton-Mifflin Company

Educypedia

Valley Glaciers

Prentice Hall Textbook Resources


Plate Tectonics

Wegener Image

Darwin Image

Ancient Map 

1500s World Map

1800s World Map

Modern Map

Satellite Map 

Pangaea with all of the present countries Image

NY Times "Animated Life: Pangaea." 7:30 minutes

Marsupials of Australia 6:44 Narrated by a wierdo

Marsupials Image

Marsupials Image

Large bodied Marsupials

Giant Wombat

Lemurs of Madagascar 5 minutes

Lemurs Image

Appalachians formation

Permian Ice Sheets

Permian Coral Reefs and Coal Deposits

Catastrophism Truth.Net

Hominid Skulls

Mantle Convection 1:13

Pangaea Animation 00:30  Animation

Collision of Asia and INDIA 3:14 (really good)

650 Million Years of Drift 1:19

560 million years of drift 

Formation and Break up of Pangaea 2:30

1942 Map of the World

Ocean Floor World Map

Pacific Centered World Map

Altantic Ocean with Features. Image.

Sea Floor Spreading Harry Hess 1961

Mr. Fox's Sea Floor Spreading

Magnetism of the Sea Floor 00:18

Magnetism of the Sea Floor 3:16

Image: Paleomagnetism and Reversals

Image: Magnetic Reversals and Sea Floor Spreading

Global Sea Floor Spreading Map

Plates of the Earth Image

Break Up of Africa Image Text Book

Great Rift Valley Documentary Video 15 minutes

Rift Valley Formation Video

Great Rift Valley Image

Tuzo Wilson:

Volcanoes of the World Image

Formation of Continental Crust


Minerals

Gold

The Origin of Money 6 minutes

Open University: Origin of Money 13 Minutes

Where does Gold Come From? TED 4:34

What makes Gold so expensive? Business Insider 6.5 minutes

A Modern Day Gold Mine 6 minutes

How Pure Gold is Refined Business Insider 7 Minutes

Bitcoin for Dummies 12 minutes

Bitcoin HBO VICE 13 minutes

What is Bitcoin? WSJ 6 minutes

Nickel Ores

Magmatic Segregation/Gravitational Settling

Diamond Mining

Aluminum Ore


Oil and Gas Formation

The Four Fault Trap Types

Oil Traps Simple

Oil Traps with Notes!

Fossil Fuel Formation 2:25 

Part 1: Oil and Gas formation 2 minutes

Oil and Gas formation 3 minutes

Incredible Story of Oil (footage of Gelatinous mud in Gulf of Mexico at 17 minutes) 90 min

Oil and Gas Wells Start to Finish 5:31

Offshore Drilling: Modern Marvels 44 Min

Oil Exploration Game Oil Traps 23 minutes

SEISMIC Exploration

Reef Reservoirs West Texas Permian basin 9:56 (Very good intro)


Alberta Oil Sands Promo 31 minutes

MegaStructures: Ultimate Oil Sands Mine 47 minutes

Oil and Gas Wells (Old) 5:31

Petroleum Refining Basics 9 minutes

More Power to You 1948 Petroleum video Explains Thermal Cracking 11 minutes

1947 Gasoline for Everybody Explains Thermal Cracking

13 minutes

Dirty Jobs Roughnecking 12 minutes

Fracking: The Nature of Things Feb. 2013 44 minutes

Fracking 6:12

Newfoundland Fracking Panel May 26 2015

Distillation Process 17 minutes