#earthhistory — Public Fediverse posts

#WeekendReading: going back to Turchyn and DePaolo's review on seawater chemistry change through Phanerozoic Time. Got some ideas and want to cover my bases.
#Ocean #EarthHistory

Link: https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-earth-082517-010305

Snowball Earth wasn’t fully frozen: ice-free oases sheltered early life
#Science #SnowballEarth #Cryogenian #ClimateScience #EarthHistory #EarlyLife #Geology #GarvellachIslands #Sturtian #Marinoan #Paleoclimate #Nature
https://the-14.com/snowball-earth-wasnt-fully-frozen-ice-free-oases-sheltered-early-life/

The oldest trees on Earth stand strong at 4,600 years. Their story teaches us how to live. #BristleconePines #AncientWisdom #NatureFacts #NatureStrength #LongevityLessons #EcoKnowledge #EarthHistory #TreeScience #ClimateTimeline #Mindfulness #CalmNature #LifeLessons #ConservationMatters #SaveAncientTrees #EcoCare #LifeInNature #WisdomOfTrees #NatureInspires #AncientTrees #BristleconePine #NatureBeauty #TreeOfLife #SanjayKMohindroo
https://sm.stayingalive.in/did-you-know/4600-years-of-life-the.html

The oldest trees on Earth stand strong at 4,600 years. Their story teaches us how to live. #BristleconePines #AncientWisdom #NatureFacts #NatureStrength #LongevityLessons #EcoKnowledge #EarthHistory #TreeScience #ClimateTimeline #Mindfulness #CalmNature #LifeLessons #ConservationMatters #SaveAncientTrees #EcoCare #LifeInNature #WisdomOfTrees #NatureInspires #AncientTrees #BristleconePine #NatureBeauty #TreeOfLife #SanjayKMohindroo
https://sm.stayingalive.in/did-you-know/4600-years-of-life-the.html

The oldest trees on Earth stand strong at 4,600 years. Their story teaches us how to live. #BristleconePines #AncientWisdom #NatureFacts #NatureStrength #LongevityLessons #EcoKnowledge #EarthHistory #TreeScience #ClimateTimeline #Mindfulness #CalmNature #LifeLessons #ConservationMatters #SaveAncientTrees #EcoCare #LifeInNature #WisdomOfTrees #NatureInspires #AncientTrees #BristleconePine #NatureBeauty #TreeOfLife #SanjayKMohindroo
https://sm.stayingalive.in/did-you-know/4600-years-of-life-the.html

The oldest trees on Earth stand strong at 4,600 years. Their story teaches us how to live. #BristleconePines #AncientWisdom #NatureFacts #NatureStrength #LongevityLessons #EcoKnowledge #EarthHistory #TreeScience #ClimateTimeline #Mindfulness #CalmNature #LifeLessons #ConservationMatters #SaveAncientTrees #EcoCare #LifeInNature #WisdomOfTrees #NatureInspires #AncientTrees #BristleconePine #NatureBeauty #TreeOfLife #SanjayKMohindroo
https://sm.stayingalive.in/did-you-know/4600-years-of-life-the.html

The oldest trees on Earth stand strong at 4,600 years. Their story teaches us how to live. #BristleconePines #AncientWisdom #NatureFacts #NatureStrength #LongevityLessons #EcoKnowledge #EarthHistory #TreeScience #ClimateTimeline #Mindfulness #CalmNature #LifeLessons #ConservationMatters #SaveAncientTrees #EcoCare #LifeInNature #WisdomOfTrees #NatureInspires #AncientTrees #BristleconePine #NatureBeauty #TreeOfLife #SanjayKMohindroo
https://sm.stayingalive.in/did-you-know/4600-years-of-life-the.html

The oldest trees on Earth stand strong at 4,600 years. Their story teaches us how to live. #BristleconePines #AncientWisdom #NatureFacts #NatureStrength #LongevityLessons #EcoKnowledge #EarthHistory #TreeScience #ClimateTimeline #Mindfulness #CalmNature #LifeLessons #ConservationMatters #SaveAncientTrees #EcoCare #LifeInNature #WisdomOfTrees #NatureInspires #AncientTrees #BristleconePine #NatureBeauty #TreeOfLife #SanjayKMohindroo
https://sm.stayingalive.in/did-you-know/4600-years-of-life-the.html

The oldest trees on Earth stand strong at 4,600 years. Their story teaches us how to live. #BristleconePines #AncientWisdom #NatureFacts #NatureStrength #LongevityLessons #EcoKnowledge #EarthHistory #TreeScience #ClimateTimeline #Mindfulness #CalmNature #LifeLessons #ConservationMatters #SaveAncientTrees #EcoCare #LifeInNature #WisdomOfTrees #NatureInspires #AncientTrees #BristleconePine #NatureBeauty #TreeOfLife #SanjayKMohindroo
https://sm.stayingalive.in/did-you-know/4600-years-of-life-the.html

The oldest trees on Earth stand strong at 4,600 years. Their story teaches us how to live. #BristleconePines #AncientWisdom #NatureFacts #NatureStrength #LongevityLessons #EcoKnowledge #EarthHistory #TreeScience #ClimateTimeline #Mindfulness #CalmNature #LifeLessons #ConservationMatters #SaveAncientTrees #EcoCare #LifeInNature #WisdomOfTrees #NatureInspires #AncientTrees #BristleconePine #NatureBeauty #TreeOfLife #SanjayKMohindroo
https://sm.stayingalive.in/did-you-know/4600-years-of-life-the.html

The oldest trees on Earth stand strong at 4,600 years. Their story teaches us how to live. #BristleconePines #AncientWisdom #NatureFacts #NatureStrength #LongevityLessons #EcoKnowledge #EarthHistory #TreeScience #ClimateTimeline #Mindfulness #CalmNature #LifeLessons #ConservationMatters #SaveAncientTrees #EcoCare #LifeInNature #WisdomOfTrees #NatureInspires #AncientTrees #BristleconePine #NatureBeauty #TreeOfLife #SanjayKMohindroo
https://sm.stayingalive.in/did-you-know/4600-years-of-life-the.html

The oldest trees on Earth stand strong at 4,600 years. Their story teaches us how to live. #BristleconePines #AncientWisdom #NatureFacts #NatureStrength #LongevityLessons #EcoKnowledge #EarthHistory #TreeScience #ClimateTimeline #Mindfulness #CalmNature #LifeLessons #ConservationMatters #SaveAncientTrees #EcoCare #LifeInNature #WisdomOfTrees #NatureInspires #AncientTrees #BristleconePine #NatureBeauty #TreeOfLife #SanjayKMohindroo
https://sm.stayingalive.in/did-you-know/4600-years-of-life-the.html

https://www.europesays.com/ie/322918/ Some early life forms may have breathed oxygen well before it filled the atmosphere | MIT News #AerobicRespiration #cyanobacteria #EarthHistory #Éire #Evolution #FatimaHusain #GreatOxidationEvent #GregoryFournier #IE #Ireland #microbes #MITEAPS #MolecularClocks #PhylogeneticTree #PlanetaryScience #Science

🌌🔭 Ancient eclipse unlocks secrets! 709 BCE Chinese record of a total solar eclipse reveals Earth’s slowing rotation, 11-year solar cycles, & locates lost city Qufu. Celestial history rewritten! Read more: https://thedebrief.org/the-oldest-known-eclipse-record-is-shedding-light-on-early-celestial-mysteries-revealing-the-location-of-a-misplaced-ancient-chinese-city/

@goodnews

#GoodNews #AncientEclipse #SolarCycles #EarthHistory #ScienceDiscovery

56 million years ago, the Earth suddenly heated up – and many plants stopped working properly
#Science #Environment #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Plants #EarthHistory #CarbonCycle #GlobalWarming #SoilCarbon #CarbonSink #CarbonSequestration #The14
https://the-14.com/56-million-years-ago-the-earth-suddenly-heated-up-and-many-plants-stopped-working-properly/

🌍🦠 Scientists discovered unmistakable molecular fingerprints of ancient life in 3.33-billion-year-old rocks, and photosynthesis in rocks up to 2.52 billion years old, using AI and advanced chemistry. Earth was alive much earlier than previously thought! Read more: https://thedebrief.org/life-on-earth-began-about-one-billion-years-earlier-than-previously-thought-new-research-finds/

@goodnews

#GoodNews #AncientLife #OriginsOfLife #EarthHistory #ScienceWin

🌍🦠 Scientists discovered unmistakable molecular fingerprints of ancient life in 3.33-billion-year-old rocks, and photosynthesis in rocks up to 2.52 billion years old, using AI and advanced chemistry. Earth was alive much earlier than previously thought! Read more: https://thedebrief.org/life-on-earth-began-about-one-billion-years-earlier-than-previously-thought-new-research-finds/

@goodnews

#GoodNews #AncientLife #OriginsOfLife #EarthHistory #ScienceWin

🌍🦠 Scientists discovered unmistakable molecular fingerprints of ancient life in 3.33-billion-year-old rocks, and photosynthesis in rocks up to 2.52 billion years old, using AI and advanced chemistry. Earth was alive much earlier than previously thought! Read more: https://thedebrief.org/life-on-earth-began-about-one-billion-years-earlier-than-previously-thought-new-research-finds/

@goodnews

#GoodNews #AncientLife #OriginsOfLife #EarthHistory #ScienceWin

🌍🦠 Scientists discovered unmistakable molecular fingerprints of ancient life in 3.33-billion-year-old rocks, and photosynthesis in rocks up to 2.52 billion years old, using AI and advanced chemistry. Earth was alive much earlier than previously thought! Read more: https://thedebrief.org/life-on-earth-began-about-one-billion-years-earlier-than-previously-thought-new-research-finds/

@goodnews

#GoodNews #AncientLife #OriginsOfLife #EarthHistory #ScienceWin

Ben G. Thomas zeigt einmal mehr, was einem entgeht, wenn man bei Paläontologie in erster Linie an Dinosaurier denkt. (Und bei 1:12 werdet ihr einen alten Bekannten entdecken. 😉 )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay1gPS10eIk

#BenGThomas #paleontology #EarthHistory

On rocks, from Mineral Cup’s admin, @mikamckinnon
She writes:
#Hematite is a key mineral in banded iron formations. And BIFs are my BFFs

Very well done! BIFs make their appearance around minute five.

https://www.ted.com/talks/mika_mckinnon_do_you_have_a_rock

Thanks for the heads up
@vickyveritas
@vickyveritas.bsky.social

#MinCup25 #BandedIronFormation #GreatOxidationEvent #Stromatolites #EarthHistory #EarthSystemScience

On rocks, from Mineral Cup’s admin, @mikamckinnon
She writes:
#Hematite is a key mineral in banded iron formations. And BIFs are my BFFs

Very well done! BIFs make their appearance around minute five.

https://www.ted.com/talks/mika_mckinnon_do_you_have_a_rock

Thanks for the heads up
@vickyveritas
@vickyveritas.bsky.social

#MinCup25 #BandedIronFormation #GreatOxidationEvent #Stromatolites #EarthHistory #EarthSystemScience

On rocks, from Mineral Cup’s admin, @mikamckinnon
She writes:
#Hematite is a key mineral in banded iron formations. And BIFs are my BFFs

Very well done! BIFs make their appearance around minute five.

https://www.ted.com/talks/mika_mckinnon_do_you_have_a_rock

Thanks for the heads up
@vickyveritas
@vickyveritas.bsky.social

#MinCup25 #BandedIronFormation #GreatOxidationEvent #Stromatolites #EarthHistory #EarthSystemScience

On rocks, from Mineral Cup’s admin, @mikamckinnon
She writes:
#Hematite is a key mineral in banded iron formations. And BIFs are my BFFs

Very well done! BIFs make their appearance around minute five.

https://www.ted.com/talks/mika_mckinnon_do_you_have_a_rock

Thanks for the heads up
@vickyveritas
@vickyveritas.bsky.social

#MinCup25 #BandedIronFormation #GreatOxidationEvent #Stromatolites #EarthHistory #EarthSystemScience

On rocks, from Mineral Cup’s admin, @mikamckinnon
She writes:
#Hematite is a key mineral in banded iron formations. And BIFs are my BFFs

Very well done! BIFs make their appearance around minute five.

https://www.ted.com/talks/mika_mckinnon_do_you_have_a_rock

Thanks for the heads up
@vickyveritas
@vickyveritas.bsky.social

#MinCup25 #BandedIronFormation #GreatOxidationEvent #Stromatolites #EarthHistory #EarthSystemScience

A volcano or a meteorite? New evidence sheds light on puzzling discovery in Greenland’s ice sheet
#Greenland #Iceland #Volcano #Meteorite #ClimateChange #EarthHistory #IceCore #YoungerDryas #Geology #Earth #Volcanology #SpaceVsEarth #IceCores #Comets
https://the-14.com/a-volcano-or-a-meteorite-new-evidence-sheds-light-on-puzzling-discovery-in-greenlands-ice-sheet/

A volcano or a meteorite? New evidence sheds light on puzzling discovery in Greenland’s ice sheet
#Greenland #Iceland #Volcano #Meteorite #ClimateChange #EarthHistory #IceCore #YoungerDryas #Geology #Earth #Volcanology #SpaceVsEarth #IceCores #Comets
https://the-14.com/a-volcano-or-a-meteorite-new-evidence-sheds-light-on-puzzling-discovery-in-greenlands-ice-sheet/

A volcano or a meteorite? New evidence sheds light on puzzling discovery in Greenland’s ice sheet
#Greenland #Iceland #Volcano #Meteorite #ClimateChange #EarthHistory #IceCore #YoungerDryas #Geology #Earth #Volcanology #SpaceVsEarth #IceCores #Comets
https://the-14.com/a-volcano-or-a-meteorite-new-evidence-sheds-light-on-puzzling-discovery-in-greenlands-ice-sheet/

A volcano or a meteorite? New evidence sheds light on puzzling discovery in Greenland’s ice sheet
#Greenland #Iceland #Volcano #Meteorite #ClimateChange #EarthHistory #IceCore #YoungerDryas #Geology #Earth #Volcanology #SpaceVsEarth #IceCores #Comets
https://the-14.com/a-volcano-or-a-meteorite-new-evidence-sheds-light-on-puzzling-discovery-in-greenlands-ice-sheet/

A volcano or a meteorite? New evidence sheds light on puzzling discovery in Greenland’s ice sheet
#Greenland #Iceland #Volcano #Meteorite #ClimateChange #EarthHistory #IceCore #YoungerDryas #Geology #Earth #Volcanology #SpaceVsEarth #IceCores #Comets
https://the-14.com/a-volcano-or-a-meteorite-new-evidence-sheds-light-on-puzzling-discovery-in-greenlands-ice-sheet/

"It seems that everything was a target for this vicious, mass-murdering tree."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acp-NOt2HVk

#BenGThomas #paleontology #EarthHistory

An interesting study of the hypothesis that the Sturtian "Snowball Earth" event from around 720-660 Mya was caused by a Large Igneous Province eruption, through a very comprehensive exploration of model parameter space.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024JE008701?af=R

The basic idea: the Franklin LIP, now in northern Canada, erupted at low latitudes: this led to enhanced silicate weathering that removed of CO2 from the atmosphere fast enough for the (positive) ice-albedo feedback to overcome the (negative) silicate weathering feedback.

The question asked here: could this mechanism work, and if it did, why didn't more recent LIP eruptions at tropical latitudes have similar effects?

The answer: yes, under certain conditions that are more easily met in the Neoproterozoic than the Phanerozoic:

- low starting temperatures
- rapid weathering & erosion, possibly due to (lack of) plant cover
- a weaker silicate weathering feedback

#geology #EarthHistory

Modelling suggests that Earth's first crust, which fractionated from a magma ocean, would have had a similar trace element composition to modern continental crust: in other words, this signature is not a reliable marker of subduction and plate tectonics on the young Earth.

#geology #tectonics #EarthHistory

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/study-reveals-flawed-argument-in-debate-over-when-plate-tectonics-began

The protoplanetary material that coalesced to form the Earth had lots of intrinsic hydrogen bound with sulphur - probably enough to support hypothesis that Earth's water came from outgassing of mantle rather than being supplied by comets and asteroids.

#geology #planets #EarthHistory

https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/article/scientists-uncover-crucial-evidence-origin-water-earth

What distinguishes humans from animals? | DW Documentary
#Documentary, #DWdocumentary, #fulldocumentary, #DW, #documentary2023, #dwdocumentary, #documentaries, #Documentaries, #documentary, #anthropology, #enigmaofhumanity, #brain, #neuroscience, #earthhistory, #humanbeing

youtube.com/watch?v=7qOfrz-M7-…

Complex life on Earth may be much older than previously thought. Fossils and geological evidence indicate that multicellular organisms might have existed over a billion years ago, pushing back the timeline of life's evolution. This discovery could reshape our understanding of how life developed on our planet, offering new insights into Earth's ancient history and the conditions that made life possible.

#Evolution #Paleontology #EarthHistory #LifeOrigins #Science

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3geyvpxpeyo

Earth's Billion-Year Balancing Act
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https://phys.org/news/2024-02-earth-billion-year.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1130/GSATG423C.1 <-- shared paper
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#geology #geologichistory #BoringBillion #BalancedBillion #earth #earthhistory #life #lifeonearth #atmosphere #oxygenation #structuralgeology #tectonics #complexlife #eukaryote #platetectonics #crust #mantle #core

Earth's Billion-Year Balancing Act
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https://phys.org/news/2024-02-earth-billion-year.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1130/GSATG423C.1 <-- shared paper
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#geology #geologichistory #BoringBillion #BalancedBillion #earth #earthhistory #life #lifeonearth #atmosphere #oxygenation #structuralgeology #tectonics #complexlife #eukaryote #platetectonics #crust #mantle #core

Earth's Billion-Year Balancing Act
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https://phys.org/news/2024-02-earth-billion-year.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1130/GSATG423C.1 <-- shared paper
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#geology #geologichistory #BoringBillion #BalancedBillion #earth #earthhistory #life #lifeonearth #atmosphere #oxygenation #structuralgeology #tectonics #complexlife #eukaryote #platetectonics #crust #mantle #core

Earth's Billion-Year Balancing Act
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https://phys.org/news/2024-02-earth-billion-year.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1130/GSATG423C.1 <-- shared paper
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#geology #geologichistory #BoringBillion #BalancedBillion #earth #earthhistory #life #lifeonearth #atmosphere #oxygenation #structuralgeology #tectonics #complexlife #eukaryote #platetectonics #crust #mantle #core

Earth's Billion-Year Balancing Act
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https://phys.org/news/2024-02-earth-billion-year.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1130/GSATG423C.1 <-- shared paper
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#geology #geologichistory #BoringBillion #BalancedBillion #earth #earthhistory #life #lifeonearth #atmosphere #oxygenation #structuralgeology #tectonics #complexlife #eukaryote #platetectonics #crust #mantle #core

After the Great Oxygenation Event around 2.4 billion years ago, lots of now-unstable sulphide minerals like pyrite reacted with the oxygen now appearing in the atmosphere, making stream and river water extremely acidic - and apparently screwing up a proxy that has been used to argue that Proterozoic oxygen levels couldn't have been very high.

#geology #EarthHistory

https://eos.org/science-updates/how-great-was-the-great-oxidation-event

One of the humbling takewaways from this book is how insignificant we human beings are - how brief our time on earth has been
compared to all of nature.

‘This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.‘

To get a sense of how brief our time on earth is in light of all of earth's history - check out this fascinating video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7TUe5w6RHo

#Time #EarthHistory #HumanHistory #History #KurzGesagt

@bookstodon @boeken

Serendipity! How a 2.4 billion year-old rock “picked up by chance” turned out to contain surprisingly complex microfossils: "the first direct fossil evidence linking the changing environment during the Great Oxidation Event with an increase in the complexity of life."

https://news.unsw.edu.au/en/erica-picked-up-a-rock-10-years-ago-it-might-hold-the-oldest-form-of-complex-life-on-earth

HT @Andbaker
#geology #EarthHistory #evolution

https://www.pub-x.com/359076/ Big Bang in a Blink 💥 The Birth of Our Universe #learning #bigbang #facts #space #earthhistory #AdventuresOnEarth #AllAudienceFriendly #BigBang #BIGBANG #EarthAdventures #EarthBirth #EarthCreation #EverybodyCanWatch #facts #HowIsTheEarthBorn? #KPopBoys #KPopIdols #LearningTheBigBangTheory #OneMinuteLearning #QuickFacts #TheBigBangTheory

Plate tectonics, the process that shapes Earth’s surface, was surprisingly speedy in the past, a new study reveals. The study measured the speed of plate movements over the last two billion years and found that they were much faster than today, reaching up to 20 centimeters per year. Plate tectonics may have started earlier than previously thought, and that it may have influenced the evolution of life and climate.

#PlateTectonics #EarthHistory #Geodynamics

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/early-plate-tectonics-was-surprisingly-speedy/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FMind+and+Matter

Mapped - What Did The World Look Like In The Last Ice Age?
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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-world-the-last-ice-age/ <-- shared article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03467-6 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #model #modeling #iceage #LastGlacialMaximum #sealevel #glaciers #ice #visualisation #LGM #lasticeage #earthhistory #climate #climatechange #map #cartography #research #elevation #topography #remotesensing #opendata #global #poles #polar #pole #icemass #iceandsnow
#VisualCapitalist @visualcapitalist

Long-Lost Remnants Of Ancient Continents Still Lurk Beneath Antarctica
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https://www.iflscience.com/long-lost-remnants-of-ancient-continents-still-lurk-beneath-antarctica-69572 <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-34733-9 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #satellite #GOCE #gravity #seismology #antarctica #cratons #lithosphere #continents #gravitygradients #model #modeling #tectonics #geology #structuralgeology #platetectonics #orogen #earthhistory #geologichistory
@ESA

Recommendations wanted

I'm looking for recommendations for nonfiction #books & TV/film #documentaries on
#Palaeontology & #geology

I'm particularly looking for anything about #dinosaurs, #MassExtinction, #evolution & #EarthHistory

I'm also interested in anything #volcano, #earthquake, & #NaturalDisaster based

These are some of the books I've already read & enjoyed:

The Planet in a Pebble- J. Zalasiewicz
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles- D. Hone
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs- R. Black
Life on a Young Planet- A.H. Knoll
The Rise & Fall of the Dinosaurs- S.L. Brusatte
The Dinosaurs Rediscovered- M.J. Benton
When Life Nearly Died- M.J. Benton

#BookRecommendations #TVRecommendations
#paleontology