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Title Comment Keywords
Heat Within the Earth 14:50 - 15:32 (00:42) / 0.4 MB "Jason Saleeby", rock, flow, convection, mantle, heat, "radioactive decay", "plate tectonics", element, uranium, thorium, potassium
Geologic Time 30 minutes / n.a. "absolute age dating", "James Hutton", isotope, "geologic time", element, fossil, Bible, "age", superposition, "sedimentary rock", "rock formation", "relative age dating", radioactivity, "radioisotope", "Principle of Superposition", "mass spectrometer", correlation
Radioactivity 18:06 - 18:55 (00:49) / 0.8 MB isotope, radioisotope, radioactivity, element, "absolute age dating"
Isotopes 18:55 - 19:37 (00:42) / 0.5 MB "radioactive decay", "radiometric age dating", "radiocarbon dating", isotope, element, "absolute age dating"
Uranium-235 21:37 - 22:16 (00:39) / 0.8 MB radioisotope, uranium-235, element, lead-207, isotope, "absolute age dating"
Determining the Age of Rocks 22:16 - 23:19 (01:03) / 1.1 MB "geologic age", mineralogy, mineral, element, isotope, "mass spectrometer", "isotopic ratio", "absolute age dating"
Mass Spectrometer 23:19 - 24:58 (01:39) / 1.5 MB "Jason Saleeby", "mass spectrometer", isotope, element, "absolute age dating"
Minerals: The Materials of Earth 30 minutes / n.a. mineral, rock, "physical property", "mineral identification", quartz, precipitation, element, "crystal structure", crystal, atom, "metallic mineral", "laboratory analysis", crust, color, "chemical composition"
Crystal Growth 07:26 - 07:56 (00:30) / 0.7 MB "crystal growth", atom, mineral, element
Quartz 08:34 - 09:20 (00:46) / 0.7 MB "Richard Hazlett", mineral, quartz, silicon, oxygen, solid, gas, hardness, "three-dimensional bonding", ion, transparent, crystal, element
X-Ray Analysis 14:51 - 16:33 (01:42) / 1.4 MB "J. Lawford Anderson", X-ray, "chemical composition", mineral, rock, element, "laboratory analysis"
Hydrothermal Ore Deposits 21:48 - 22:58 (01:10) / 1.1 MB "J. Lawford Anderson", magma, "igneous intrusion", "metallic mineral", "ore deposit", "hydrothermal ore deposit", metal, element, mineral, quartz, feldspar, mica, "lava flow", crystal, water, boiling, fracture, "magma chamber", precipitation
Crystallization In Water 22:58 - 23:43 (00:45) / 1.2 MB crystallization, precipitation, water, "chemical reaction", mineral, element, hematite, iron, oxygen, sand, sandstone
Silicates 24:45 - 26:21 (01:36) / 2.0 MB mineral, silicate, silicon, element, semi-conductor, microchip, computer, technology
Calcium and Phosphorous 13:48 - 15:09 (01:21) / 2.4 MB weathering, "chemical weathering", calcium, phosphorous, element, bone, plant, soil, animal, apatite, granite, phosphate, rock, "food chain", life, vertebrate
Contact Metamorphism 13:53 - 14:52 (00:59) / 1.3 MB "Douglas M. Morton", "contact metamorphism", marble, intrusion, "igneous rock", tonalite, limestone, element, "chemical reaction", iron, aluminum, silicon, garnet, silica, wollastonite, "calcium silicate"
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