Created through a unique collaboration among Pearson Prentice Hall’s leading geoscience authors—including Robert Christopherson, Darrel Hess, Frederick Lutgens, Aurora Pun, Gary Smith, Edward Tarbuck, and Alan Trujillo—the Geoscience Animation Library (GAL) offers over 100 animations that illuminate the most difficult-to-visualize topics in physical geology, physical geography, oceanography, meteorology, and earth science.   Available on DVD-ROM, the animations are provided as Flash files and pre-loaded into PowerPoint® slides for both Windows and Mac. The Fifth Edition animations now include audio narration and a text transcript, with new controls that enable instructors to turn the text and audio on or off.   URL: http://www.mygeoscienceplace.com  

Table of Contents:
Climate & Atmosphere Atmospheric Energy Balance Atmospheric Stability Atmospheric Stability and Saturation Control Coriolis Effect Earth-Sun Relations El Niño and La Niña Global Warming Global Wind Patterns with Hadley Cells Orbital Variations and Climate Change Ozone Depletion Water Phase Changes Weather Cyclones and Anticyclones Cold Fronts and Warm Fronts Hurricane Wind Patterns Jet Stream and Rossby Waves Midlatitude Cyclones Tornado Wind Patterns Wind Pattern Development Hydrology Cones of Depression Earth’s Water and the Hydrologic Cycle Water Table Formation Biomes & Ecosystems Biological Productivity in Midlatitude Oceans Daily Movement of the Deep Scattering Layer Earth’s Interior Lava Lamp Convection Flipping of Earth's Magnetic Field How Seismic Waves Reveal Earth’s Internal Layers Inclination and Declination Mantle and Core Dimensions Seismic Wave Motion with Surface Effects Seismic Wave Motion Seismographs Wave reflection and Refraction Age of Earth Angular Unconformities, Nonconformities, and Disconformities Kelvin Calculation of Earth’s Age Radioactive Decay Relative Geologic Dating Earth’s Materials Calcareous Ooze and the Calcite Compensation Depth Cross-Bedding Dry Compaction and Liquefaction Foliation of Metamorphic Rock Foliation Processes Fractional Crystallization Igneous Features and Landforms Mantle Melting and Pressure-Temperature Graphs Shoreline and Sedimentation Changes Turbidity Currents and the Formation of Graded Bedding Tuttle and Bowen’s Data Earthquakes Dry Compaction and Liquefaction Elastic Rebound Seismic Wave Motion with Surface Effects Seismic Wave Motion Seismographs Shoreline and Sedimentation Changes Tsunami Erosion and Weathering Erosion of Deformed Sedimentary Rock Exposing Metamorphic Rock Physical Weathering Mass Movement Dry Compaction and Liquefaction Mass Movements: Five Main Types Mass Movements: Uplift and Mass Movement Mount St. Helens, Washington: Debris Avalanche and Eruption Tectonics and Structure Convection and Tectonics Convergent Margins: India-Asia Collision Divergent Boundary Formation Faults Folds Global Geography Through Geologic Time Mantle Melting and Plate Tectonics Motion at Plate Boundaries Pangea Breakup Plate Boundary Features Relative and Absolute Motion Seafloor Spreading and Magnetization Seafloor Spreading and Plate Boundaries Stress and Strain Graphs Tectonic Settings and Volcanic Activity Terrane Formation Transform Faults Volcanoes Caldera Formation Caldera Formation: Crater Lake Hot Spot Volcano Tracks Magma Rising from the Mantle Mt. St. Helen's Tectonic Settings and Volcanic Activity Volcano Types Ocean and Coastal Systems Beach Drift and Longshore Currents Biological Productivity in Midlatitude Oceans Calcareous Ooze and the Calcite Compensation Depth Coastal Stabilization Structures Daily Movement of the Deep Scattering Layer Ekman Spiral Coastal Upwelling/Downwelling El Niño and La Niña Movement of Barrier Island in Response to Rising Sea Movement of Sand in a Beach Compartment Ocean Circulation Seamounts/Tablemounts and Coral Reef Stages Shoreline and Sedimentation Changes Sonar and Echolocation Summertime/Wintertime Beach Conditions Tidal Cycle Tidal Patterns Tsunami Turbidity Currents and the Formation of Graded Bedding Wave Interference Wave Interference with 3D Visualization Wave Motion and Wave Refraction Wave Properties Fluvial Systems Natural Levee Development with Flooding Sediment Transport by Streams Stream Processes: Floodplain Development Stream Processes: Oxbow Lakes Stream Processes: Oxbow Lakes and Floodplain Development Stream Terrace Formation Glacial Systems Glacial Advance and Retreat Glacial Isostasy Glacial Processes Eolian Systems Cross Bedding Sediment Transport by Wind Solar System Formation Nebular Hypothesis of Solar System Formation