GEOL 109 | The Earth and Life Through Time

Student-Curated Geology Video Collection

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Speciation

1. Summary The video chosen is about speciation, and how things can affect speciation. It begins to explain isolation and the factors that can have on speciation. Then finally the video...

How Do We Know Plate Tectonics Is Real?

1. Summary The earth’s crust was originally thought of as static. It took the combined efforts of Alfred Wegener, Harry Hess, and Arthur Holmes to prove this theory wrong. Wegener’s the...

What Is A Fossil? Quick Definition

1. Summary This three-minute video presents a quick and concise overview of fossils. It also explains the process of permineralization by using a Brazilian agate geode as an example. By...

How Does New Genetic Information Evolve, Part 1: Point Mutations

1. Summary Point mutations are random changes in the DNA code that involve a single pair of nucleotides, causing the evolution of new genetic information in a population without changin...

Why Does the Earth Have Layers?

1. Summary After briefly describing how the sun and our solar system came to be, this video shifts focus to the Earth’s layers and their importance. The video explains what the various ...

Classification

1. Summary This video focuses on taxonomic classification. It gives some great and clear information on what the three domains are and what distinguishes them from each other. The video...

Extinction of Species

1. Summary This video defines and explains extinction and the processes that can lead to it. It describes why certain types of plants and animals may become extinct and gives examples o...

Rockies Thrust Up

1. Summary In this video, we see how the Rocky Mountains were created by the movement of the Pacific and North American plates. We learn that parts of the range are up to 1000 miles awa...

What Happens When Continents Collide?

1. Summary This video outlines how plate tectonics moved North and South America to where they are today. The video also depicts how plate tectonics influenced the migration of ancient ...

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...

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