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Gale Interactive Science: Earth Science

Earthquake 3D Model
3-dimensional views of earthquake dynamics. Click into the frame to move the components around for a better look inside!
Volcano 3D Model
3-dimensional views of the volcano dynamics. Click into the frame to move the components around for a better look inside!

Science (Gale Interactive) This link opens in a new window
Visual online learning tool for biology, chemistry, earth science, and human anatomy. Digital content is selected from authoritative resources and paired with interactive 3D models to deliver a virtual laboratory simulation experience.

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
1000's of earth science-related educational videos including:

Just the Facts Earth Science Essentials Series by Cerebellum Corporation Have you ever wondered what causes earthquakes or how volcanoes are formed? This series will explore the effects of contamination and pollution, the characteristics of land and sea, natural disasters, glaciers, biochemical cycles, and more!
Call Number: Streaming Video
Publication Date: 2018
Forces of Nature by PBS Take a global tour in four themed episodes, answering the simplest questions about the complex forces that shape our planet. Why is water blue? How can a shape defy gravity? Why do bees make hexagonal honeycombs? And how do these things affect our own lives? Discover what lies beneath Earth's startling beauty as we reveal the secrets of our cosmos and the natural forces that govern everything within it.
Call Number: Streaming Video
Publication Date: 2018
Pangaea by INTELECOM Geophysicist and geologist Tanya Atwater talks about the super continent Pangaea, thought to have broken up into the continents as we know them today beginning about 200 million years ago.
Call Number: Streaming Video
Publication Date: 2015

Faces of Earth
American Geosciences Institute
Episodes: 1. Building the Planet; 2. Shaping the Planet; 3. Assembling America; 4. A Human World
Deep Under the Earth's Surface, Discovering Beauty and Science
TED Talks
Cave explorer and geologist Francesco Sauro travels to the hidden continent under our feet, surveying deep, dark places inside the earth that humans have never been able to reach before. In the spectacular tepuis of South America, he finds new minerals and insects that have evolved in isolation, and he uses his knowledge of these alien worlds to train astronauts.
A Brief History of Geologic Time
PBS Eons' 12 minute video