"How the Earth Was Made" (History Channel)
Yesterday evening, I watched "How the Earth Was Made," a History Channel program available on DVD (Amazon, Netflix, NOVA library). It's an ideal video for introductory students, as it covers 4.5 billion years in 100 minutes of program. I think it's probably worth a viewing even for professional geologists, though there's definitely some stuff in there to take issue with. For instance: (1) they call stromatolites "organisms;" (2) they suggest that Snowball Earth occurred because the continents were clustered over the pole, not the equator, and (3) they show the Pleistocene North American ice cap stretching south into Georgia and the Carolinas. Still, I'm a fan of any video which can animate visually the processes that geologists imagine, and this show achieves that in spades. Have you seen it? Chime in below in the comments section.
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Yes, I've seen it too, and can highly recommend it. It dealt with a fair amount of Precambrian stuff rather than just skipping from the formation of the Earth to the Cambrian Explosion, for instance! It's not perfect, but it is the best general historical geology documentary I've seen so far.
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