Earth

What makes up the Earth?

Early ideas about the Earth

Cocoon of gas

Climate in the past

Watery planet

Properties of water

Realms of ice

Building blocks

Investigating rocks

Igneous rocks

Sedimentary rocks

Metamorphic rocks

Challenge of the ocean

Modern oceanography

Continental drift

Plate tectonics

Formation of the ocean floor

Exploring the interior

Earthquakes and seismology

Volcanology

Mountain building

Plateaus and rifts

Weathering processes

Life from rock

Erosion

Deposition

Glaciation

Age of the Earth

Naming the Earth

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Geoscientists at work

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