GEOL 109 | The Earth and Life Through Time

Student-Curated Geology Video Collection

21 Items From Category "Plate Tectonics and Supercontinents"

Formation of Earth and Moon

1. Summary This video highlights specific events which lead to the formation of the Earth and Moon. It discusses how the protoplanetary disk accreted into larger bodies called protoplan...

Plate Boundaries and Tectonic Plates

1. Summary This video discusses the constant motion of the earth’s lithospheric plates known as plate tectonics. It talks about…

How Was the Grand Canyon Formed?

1. Summary The Grand Canyon is an immense canyon in Arizona, USA. The canyon is 446 kilometres long, 29 kilometres wide and 1 mile deep. This video explains how a number of forces creat...

Why Do Rivers Have Deltas?

This video focuses on how deltas are created. It discusses how coastlines bend in either an inward or outward direction where rivers meet the ocean. As well, it discusses what the role of the i...

Why Earthquakes Are So Hard To Predict

Summary: An overview on why earthquakes are so hard to predict. We need to understand the steps that lead up to earthquakes, so we can precisely predict when an earthquake m...

6 Supercontinents

Summary This video explains the order and formation of all the supercontinents. It illustrates how plate tectonics work and how they come into play w...

What is Speciation?

Summary: The video Speciation defines and describes what a species is, what speciation means and the different types of speciation and what causes them. The two types are allop...

The Paleozoic Era

Video Title   Title: The Paleozoic Era Creator: LilliVallance ULR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irZOkNHn_lg   Summary   This video is a g...

Rocks and Minerals

Summary This video covers the three main rock types: metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary. Details about each type of rock are discussed, including what it is made of and how it formed...

How North America Got Its Shape

Summary: This video helps viewers understand how continents were arranged before they looked like they do today. It explains how continents broke apart and came back to...

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