Reading the Rock Record - Lesson 1 - Part 1 of 6

Series made in 1976 - Understanding the Earth

First part of the hour long show was the segment called Planet of Man series hosted by world renowned Canadian Geophysicist
Tuzo Wilson.

The series host was Dr. David Pearson English trained, Canadian geologist residing in Sudbury, Ontario.

Dr. David Pearson lectured at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario.

This Canadian Series was made in 1976 - Understanding the Earth by TV Ontario. This series was part of a extension course at Laurentian, i believe from 1976 to 1986.

The entire series was 22 episodes. This series illustrated manual demonstrations in geological process.

Reading the Rock Record - Lesson 1 - Part 1 of 6
•Revolution in earth science in early 70's
•Geological time in Ontario
•Geological processes
•Vastness of geological time, understanding geological time
•Compressing geological time scale in a calendar year
•Summary of the calendar year in geo time;
oOldest rocks date from mid-march
oLiving things occur in the sea in May
oLand plants and animals in Late November
oDinosaurs become dominant in mid-Decmember and extinct a week later
oMan like creatures appear Dec 31
oRome rules the western world for 5 seconds 11:59:45 11:59:50 New Years eve
oColumbus discovers America 3 sec before midnight
oScience of geology is born 1 second before the turn of the calendar year
•History of Man has been brief
•Time
•Grand Canyon

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[mineguy101]

Yes!... Yes!... Yes!!...

Thanks for saying that, that is one reason why I spent the time in doing these videos.

8)

[evensgrey]

@Zanchetta99 In the mid-70's there were rather a lot of programs of this general type. TV was the only available medium, although it was poorly suited. Services like YouTube are much better suited to this kind of thing, as evidenced by multiple universities, public and private, in multiple countries, having channels on which multiple courses have their lectures available publicly.

[lickmesideways1]

excellent vid thank you for posting

[lickmesideways1]

excellent vid

[Zanchetta99]

@tejatposterior I guess today ads must pay for the programs. Can you magine anyone sponsoring a 23 hours series today?

[Zanchetta99]

Thank you very much for taking the time to put these videos on youtube. I am a German working in India trying to get a basic understanding of geology and this helps alot. That's why Youtube is a revolution as it provides a great way of learning also if videos like this may be only the drop of knowledge in the ocean of nonsense.

[SoCalGeologist]

Oh my! I remember watching these videos in grade 8! I haven't seen them for decades, but I am now a geologist! Connection? I think so!

Thanks for posting these!

[globbo100]

This is great stuff ,mineguy101. I have seen 19 of the 22 programs. I'm missing lessons 3, 12 and 17.Thank you for bringing this to us.

[HolaVT]

thanks , so helpful

[Geology2008]

brilliant!!

[BraveAmbro]

This is so helpful for my geology exams! Good repetition!