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Great Courses volume 28
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English
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Witness other wonders of canyon erosion on the Colorado Plateau, including the deep and narrow Black Canyon of the Gunnison, as well as The Narrows, a dramatic slot canyon in Zion National Park.
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Great Courses volume 31
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English
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Journey to Glacier National Park, where the glaciers may be disappearing, but the impressive glacier-sculpted terrain remains.
3) Wonders of the National Parks: A Geology of North America: Petrified Forest and Other Fossil Parks
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Great Courses volume 26
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English
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See Petrified Forest National Park, a colorful landscape littered with fossil trees that shaded Earth's earliest dinosaurs. Here and in other parks in the U.S. and Canada, fossilized flora and fauna open a window on ancient ecosystems, extinct species, and the history of life on Earth.
4) Wonders of the National Parks: A Geology of North America: Mammoth Cave, Wind Cave, Carlsbad Caverns
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Great Courses volume 33
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English
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Visit underground parks, exploring a tiny portion of the hundreds of miles of mapped passages in Mammoth Cave, Wind Cave, and Carlsbad Caverns National Parks. Consider the similarities and differences between these caves-two carved by mildly acidic rainwater, the other by dilute sulfuric acid!
5) Wonders of the National Parks: A Geology of North America: Pinnacles to Joshua Tree: The San Andreas
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Great Courses volume 12
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English
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Trace the earth-shaking San Andreas fault through a series of national parks and recreation areas-from Point Reyes, Golden Gate, and Pinnacles in the north to the Santa Monica Mountains, Channel Islands, Joshua Tree, and Mexico's Sierra de San Pedro Martir in the south.
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Great Courses volume 4
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English
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Compare the lessons of hotspot volcanism at Yellowstone with the very different landscape at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, which is also stoked by upwelling magma from Earth's mantle. Professor Cochran describes rivers of fire on the Big Island of Hawaii and suggests distinctive lava formations to visit.
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Great Courses volume 9
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English
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Continue your tour of the largest state with stops at two spectacular parks that are popular destinations for cruise ships: Glacier Bay and Kenai Fjords. Discover how glaciers form and examine their historical advance and retreat in this region. Also, learn how a glacier is like a candy bar!
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Great Courses volume 24
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English
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Descend into the Grand Canyon, recording the full sequence of strata from top to bottom-a story that takes you from 270-million-year-old limestone formed in a shallow sea to basement rocks that record a mountain-building saga from 1.7 billion years ago.
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Great Courses volume 34
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English
Description
Florida is a limestone-dominated piece of proto-Africa that got stuck to North America. Also study similar terrain at Congaree National Park and Chichen Itza in the Yucatan.
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Great Courses volume 6
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English
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Tour Mount Rainier National Park and Lassen Volcanic National Park in the Pacific Northwest, which are part of the Cascade Range of active volcanoes that include Mount Saint Helens. Then visit a group of similarly cataclysmic volcanoes in national parks in central Mexico.
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Great Courses volume 35
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English
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Explore the ancient heart of North America-the Canadian Shield-heading north from Voyageurs National Park in Minnesota to Northeast Greenland National Park, the largest, most northerly national park in the world. En route, stop off at parks on Isle Royale, Baffin Island, and Ellesmere Island.
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Great Courses volume 3
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English
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At Grand Teton National Park south of Yellowstone, an active fault lifts some of North America's oldest rocks to the summits of some of the continent's youngest mountains. Explore these glacier-sculpted peaks, and learn the origin of the broad valley, called Jackson Hole, at the base of the Teton Range.
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Great Courses volume 15
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English
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A hike along the Appalachian Trail is a journey back in time to a continental collision that raised mountains rivalling the Himalayas-now eroded into the Appalachians. Chart the geology of this ancient chain from Shenandoah National Park to Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland.
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Great Courses volume 10
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English
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Survey the most beautiful valley on Earth: Yosemite. Even for those who have not yet visited, its views are iconic thanks to stunning photos by Ansel Adams and others. Investigate the geological history of the park, focusing on its most distinctive rock type-granite.
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Great Courses volume 2
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English
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Read the evidence in the rocks to discover Yellowstone's bigger story: the massive volcanic eruptions that created the region and will one day destroy it, the glaciers that shaped the terrain, and the meltwater floods that carved the impressive Grand Canyon of Yellowstone.
16) Wonders of the National Parks: A Geology of North America: Great Smoky Mountains and Hot Springs
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Great Courses volume 16
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English
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Survey some of the attractions that make the Great Smoky Mountains America's most visited national park. Investigate a related geological structure in the famous Hot Springs National Park, discovering why there are hot springs so far from volcanic activity.
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Great Courses volume 19
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English
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Get your feet wet at America's coastal national parks, where dunes, salt marshes, ponds, and lagoons characterize shorelines. Investigate the myriad dynamic processes at Cape Hatteras, Cape Cod, and Assateague National Seashores, and at Sleeping Bear Dunes, Indiana Dunes, Pictured Rocks, and Apostle Islands National Lakeshores.
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Great Courses volume 17
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English
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Rivers are an important clue to the geology of a region and also offer superb possibilities for recreation. Journey to some of America's national rivers, wild and scenic rivers, water trails, and other river parks, including the Upper Missouri River Breaks, the New River Gorge, and Niagara Falls.
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Great Courses volume 14
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English
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Continental rifting has caused huge blocks of land to sink between high mountain belts, producing Death Valley, the lowest, hottest, driest place in North America. Explore this and other national parks and monuments in the Great Basin region.
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Great Courses volume 13
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English
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The story of the tectonic train wreck that built Alaska is written all over the three largest national parks in the U.S.: Wrangell–St. Elias, Gates of the Arctic, and Denali. These remote preserves encompass America's tallest mountains, all built by subduction zone processes.
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