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Super Volcanoes revels in the incomparable power of volcanic eruptions past and present, Earth-bound and otherwise, and explores how these eruptions reveal secrets about the worlds to which they belong. Science journalist and volcanologist Robin George Andrews describes the stunning ways in which volcanoes can sculpt the sea, land, and sky, and even influence the machinery that makes or breaks the existence of life. Traveling from Hawaii, Tanzania, Yellowstone, and the ocean floor to the moon, Venus, and Mars, Andrews explores cutting-edge discoveries and lingering scientific mysteries surrounding these phenomenal forces of nature.
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At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults.
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Subduction leads to orogeny zones in California
- De Darwin8u en 11-30-13
De: John McPhee
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The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks
- Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them
- De: Donald R. Prothero
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook the foundations of geology. In 25 chapters, Donald R. Prothero recounts the scientific detective work that shaped our understanding of geology, from the unearthing of exemplary specimens to tectonic shifts in how we view the inner workings of our planet.
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More about scientists than science
- De Aunt Vee en 06-14-20
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Geology
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Jan Zalasiewicz
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 4 h y 15 m
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In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Jan Zalasiewicz gives a brief introduction to the fascinating field of geology. Describing how the science developed from its early beginnings, he looks at some of the key discoveries that have transformed it before delving into its various subfields, such as sedimentology, tectonics, and stratigraphy.
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Geology and climate change
- De Dr. Pops en 03-15-23
De: Jan Zalasiewicz
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Earth
- An Intimate History
- De: Richard Fortey
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 18 h y 29 m
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Beginning with Mt. Vesuvius, whose eruption in Roman times helped spark the science of geology, and ending in a lab in the West of England where mathematical models and lab experiments replace direct observation, Richard Fortey tells us what the present says about ancient geologic processes. He shows how plate tectonics came to rule the geophysical landscape and how the evidence is written in the hills and in the stones. And in the process, he takes us on a wonderful journey around the globe to visit some of the most fascinating and intriguing spots on the planet.
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Random Geology Verbose History Jumbled Tours
- De Herbert S. en 12-10-21
De: Richard Fortey
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Eruption
- The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
- De: Steve Olson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and ordinary people listened anxiously to rumblings in the long quiescent volcano Mount St. Helens. Still, when a massive explosion took the top off the mountain, no one was prepared. Fifty-seven people died, including newlywed logger John Killian (for years afterward, his father searched for him in the ash), scientist Dave Johnston, and celebrated local curmudgeon Harry Truman. The lives of many others were forever changed.
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Nope
- De Prairie Girl en 05-04-18
De: Steve Olson
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The Story of Earth
- The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
- De: Robert M. Hazen
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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Earth evolves. From first atom to molecule, mineral to magma, granite crust to single cell to verdant living landscape, ours is a planet constantly in flux. In this radical new approach to Earth’s biography, senior Carnegie Institution researcher and national best-selling author Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere - of rocks and living matter - has shaped our planet into the only one of its kind in the Solar System, if not the entire cosmos.
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Makes minerals interesting
- De Gary en 07-31-12
De: Robert M. Hazen
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Assembling California
- De: John McPhee
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults.
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Subduction leads to orogeny zones in California
- De Darwin8u en 11-30-13
De: John McPhee
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The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks
- Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them
- De: Donald R. Prothero
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook the foundations of geology. In 25 chapters, Donald R. Prothero recounts the scientific detective work that shaped our understanding of geology, from the unearthing of exemplary specimens to tectonic shifts in how we view the inner workings of our planet.
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More about scientists than science
- De Aunt Vee en 06-14-20
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The Year Without Summer
- 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
- De: William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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1816 was a remarkable year - mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall through much of the Northeastern US and Europe in the summer of 1816.
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- De Ellen NB en 02-24-20
De: William K. Klingaman, y otros
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Earthquake Storms
- The Fascinating History and Volatile Future of the San Andreas Fault
- De: John Dvorak
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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The lives of millions will be changed after it breaks, and yet so few people understand it, or even realize it runs through their backyard. Dvorak reveals the San Andreas Fault's fascinating history - and its volatile future. It is a prominent geological feature that is almost impossible to see unless you know where to look. Hundreds of thousands of people drive across it every day. The San Andreas Fault is everywhere - and primed for a colossal quake. For decades scientists have warned that such a sudden shifting of the Earth's crust is inevitable.
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- De Jean en 03-05-14
De: John Dvorak
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Krakatoa
- The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa - the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster - was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly 40,000 people. Beyond the purely physical horrors of an event that has only very recently been properly understood, the eruption changed the world in more ways than could possibly be imagined. Dust swirled round die planet for years, causing temperatures to plummet and sunsets to turn vivid with lurid and unsettling displays of light.
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Great subject, great writing, great voice
- De rwise en 01-26-04
De: Simon Winchester
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Volcanoes
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Michael J. Branney, Jan Zalasiewicz
- Narrado por: Mike Cooper
- Duración: 4 h y 27 m
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This Very Short Introduction takes listeners into the inferno of a racing pyroclastic current, and the heart of a moving lava flow, as understood through the latest scientific research. Exploring how volcanologists forensically decipher how volcanoes work, Michael Branney and Jan Zalasiewicz explain what we do (and don't) understand about the fundamental mechanisms of volcanism, and consider how volcanoes interact with other physical processes on the Earth, with life, and with human society.
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A thorough short discussion on volcanoes
- De edward en 04-08-24
De: Michael J. Branney, y otros
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Timefulness
- How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
- De: Marcia Bjornerud
- Narrado por: Tanya Eby
- Duración: 5 h y 44 m
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Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. Our everyday lives are shaped by processes that vastly predate us, and our habits will in turn have consequences that will outlast us by generations. Timefulness reveals how knowing the rhythms of Earth's deep past and conceiving of time as a geologist does can give us the perspective we need for a more sustainable future.
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The narration was so bad I put it aside
- De 11104 en 10-13-18
De: Marcia Bjornerud
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A Brief History of Earth
- Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
- De: Andrew H. Knoll
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 4 h y 57 m
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Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story. Placing 21st-century climate change in deep context, A Brief History of Earth is an indispensable look at where we’ve been and where we’re going.
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Very chilling and well thought out
- De Colin Bump en 05-21-21
De: Andrew H. Knoll
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When Life Nearly Died
- The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
- De: Michael J. Benton
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
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Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. It is far less widely understood that a much greater catastrophe took place at the end of the Permian period 251 million years ago: at least 90 percent of life on earth was destroyed. When Life Nearly Died documents not only what happened during this gigantic mass extinction, but also the recent renewal of the idea of catastrophism.
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Obscurity to Enlightenment - A Mystery Revealed
- De Dipam en 03-18-21
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Island on Fire
- The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World
- De: Alexandra Witze, Jeff Kanipe
- Narrado por: John Lescault
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
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Laki is Iceland's largest volcano - and its most fearsome. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history's great untold natural disasters. Spewing out sun-blocking ash and then a poisonous fog for eight long months, the effects of the eruption lingered across the world for years. It caused the deaths of people as far away as the Nile and created catastrophic conditions throughout Europe.
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Interesting and Pertinent Topic!
- De Catherine Puma en 01-23-22
De: Alexandra Witze, y otros
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The Modern Scholar: Geology
- The Story of Earth
- De: Professor Kate Zeigler
- Narrado por: Professor Kate Zeigler
- Duración: 4 h y 49 m
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Geology is often thought of as simply the study of rocks. In reality, geology is the study of our planet on all scales, from microscopic to planet-wide, and ranging in time from almost instantaneous events, like earthquakes, to the glacially slow motion of the tectonic plates. Everything we know about our world from a geologic perspective is based on information locked into the rock record and the job of a geologist is to tease out that story through a wide variety of observations. This insightful course explores a range of topics that help to tell the story of Earth and to explain the discipline of Geology and the role of the geologist.
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interesting, informative and well presented.
- De Steven Mark en 01-09-16
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The Living Great Lakes
- Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas
- De: Jerry Dennis
- Narrado por: Barry Press
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
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If fresh water is to be treasured, the Great Lakes are the mother lode. No bodies of water can compare to them. One of them, Superior, is the largest lake on earth, and the five lakes together contain a fifth of the world's supply of standing fresh water. Their surface area of 95,000 square miles is greater than New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island combined. They are so vast that they dominate much of the geography, climate, and history of North America. In one way or another, they affect the lives of tens of millions.
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Good book, problematic narrator
- De Amazon Customer en 11-17-19
De: Jerry Dennis
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Reading the Rocks
- The Autobiography of the Earth
- De: Marcia Bjornerud
- Narrado por: Alma Cuervo
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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To many of us, the Earth's crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, stones are richly illustrated narratives, telling gothic tales of cataclysm and reincarnation. For more than four billion years, in beach sand, granite, and garnet schists, the planet has kept a rich and idiosyncratic journal of its past. Fulbright Scholar Marcia Bjornerud takes the listener along on an eye-opening tour of Deep Time, explaining in elegant prose what we see and feel beneath our feet.
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Well crafted and approachable
- De Adrian LeCesne en 06-02-24
De: Marcia Bjornerud
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The Day the World Ended
- The Mount Pelee Disaster: May 7, 1902
- De: Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
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In late April 1902, Mount Pelee, a volcano on the Caribbean island Martinique, began to wake up. It emitted clouds of ash and smoke for two weeks until violently erupting on May 8. Over 30,000 residents of St. Pierre were killed; they burned to death under rivers of hot lava and suffocated under pounds of hot ash. Only three people managed to survive: a prisoner trapped in a dungeon-like jail cell, a man on the outskirts of town, and a young girl found floating unconscious in a boat days later.
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Thrilling Account of a Sadly Preventable Disaster
- De Admiralu en 10-17-20
De: Gordon Thomas, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Super Volcanoes
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best book
of all of the books that I have listened to, this is by far the best
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- Lin Waters
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Interesting and fun
I love this book! Each chapter reviews a different topic from underwater volcanos to Mars. I have learned so much! And for a geology book, there no dry long ramblings, instead it’s light and fun and geology comes to life!!
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- Rick B
- 07-10-22
Uncovering Earth's past and beyond
Excellent science and history, combining this duo makes for a fascinating story but also an education in Earth's geology. The narrator, Mike Cooper, sounds like he is very British, and does an outstanding job at relaying the author's intention. Robin George Andrews has a unique vantage point for "Super Volcanos, as he is a scientist that has chosen to share his story as a professional journalist. Robin's story is not inclusive of super volcanos on Earth, but also in our Solar system. Imagine standing on Mars at the base of the largest Volcano in our Solar system and looking up and not even being able to see the top, which is over 13 miles high, that is 3 times higher than passenger jets fly. The base is so large, 500 miles that it would be difficult to even imagine this amazing edifice as a volcano. Follow the story into one of Earth's Super Volcano's in the Yellow Stone National Park. Always an epic choice for broad casters looking for sensationalism, this massive volcano is currently at rest and has been for over 74,000 years. True, if this volcano did come back to life, the entire planet could change especially the long-term climate, not to mention the massive power of destruction that we could experience. The good news is that scientists are confident that this Super volcano will remain at rest and may never erupt again. There is also humor in Robin's stories that will have you remembering how funny this book is. I have only touched on a few topics in this review, but if these sound like it would make you want to listen, then I highly recommend Super Volcanos.
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- A.H. Derman
- 07-14-24
Magma-nificent!
This book has everything good science-writing needs. It starts with a great subject matter, has colorful, vivid and cleverly humorous language, and tells clear, clean, tight stories every chapter. A must-read for fans of earth processes whether they’re beginners or experts!
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- Mark Kalla
- 01-19-23
Good story poorly told.
The topic of this book was fascinating but the telling of the story suffered as a result of the author’s use of inkhorn terms when simpler words would have sufficed, but even more by the unrelenting and unhelpful anthropomorphism.
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