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Title Comment Keywords
Understanding Oceans 09:04 - 09:59 (00:55) / 0.5 MB "Alfred Wegener", "Tanya L. Atwater", Greenland, "continental drift", ocean, oceanography, technology
Topography of the Sea Floor 09:59 - 11:06 (01:07) / 0.7 MB "Harry H. Hess", technology, fathometer, depth, Princeton, topography, "sea floor", guyot, "wave erosion", "mid-oceanic ridge"
Silicates 24:45 - 26:21 (01:36) / 2.0 MB mineral, silicate, silicon, element, semi-conductor, microchip, computer, technology
Large Migration Disaster 23:02 - 23:44 (00:42) / 1.8 MB technology, drought, water, Sahel, livestock, humans, grazing, cattle, crop
Transporting Sediment Around Dams 19:38 - 20:32 (00:54) / 1.2 MB "Scott Jenkins", "Scripps Institution of Oceanography", "Scripps Center for Coastal Studies", transportation, sediment, dam, beach, erosion, technology, season, "Southern California", lake, sand, foreshore, delta, "lake level", stream
Sand as a Public Resource 20:32 - 21:35 (01:03) / 1.2 MB "Scott Jenkins", "Scripps Institution of Oceanography", "Scripps Center for Coastal Studies", technology, engineering, transportation, sand, dam, erosion, mining, resource, beach
Living With the Earth: Preserving the Legacy 30 minutes / n.a. oil, energy, drilling, technology, geothermal, gas, resource, power, exploration, "fossil fuel"
Introduction to Preserving the Legacy 00:40 - 02:20 (01:40) / 1.2 MB introduction, "James Sadd", "H. G. Wells", humans, civilization, mining, agriculture, Roman, "Industrial Revolution", England, gravity, heat, "human power", technology, animal
Tapping Shallow Oil Deposits 09:11 - 10:27 (01:16) / 1.7 MB "Anthony Marino", drilling, "horizontal drilling", oil, production, well, technology, resource
Geologic Exploration 12:49 - 13:50 (01:01) / 1.2 MB "John Everett", satellite, wavelength, technology, geologist, forester, climatologist, oceanographer, physicist, geology, exploration, oil, gas, groundwater, mineral
Petroleum Depletion 17:36 - 18:40 (01:04) / 0.8 MB "James Sadd", "reflection seismology", "horizontal drilling", "satellite remote sensing", satellite, oil, gas, reserve, geologist, exploration, technology, energy, "fossil fuel", environment, "public health", "sedimentary rock", "geologic time", power, "nonrenewable resource"
New Energy Sources 18:40 - 19:19 (00:39) / 0.5 MB "James Sadd", environment, "fossil fuel", energy, humans, "human power", technology, "wind power", "solar power", geothermal, pollution, "renewable resource"
Earth's Internal Heat Engine 20:19 - 21:32 (01:13) / 1.2 MB "Fred Teeters", "internal heat engine", crust, geothermal, volcanism, power, energy, Larderello, Italy, technology, "United States", oil, gas, resource
Conclusion 25:34 - 26:56 (01:22) / 1.2 MB "James Sadd", resource, "nonrenewable resource", prediction, "geologic time", technology, human
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