Awakening

Hidden in the red hills of Australia are clues to the mysteries of Earth's birth, how life arose and how it transformed the planet into the world we now live in. Experts unveil the earliest forms of life: an odd assortment of bacterial slime. Life like this would flood the atmosphere with oxyge...

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Other Authors: Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase., Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Format: Video
Language: English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2014], c2013.
Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (60 min.) : sd., col.
Series: Australia's first 4 billion years.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Awakening: Australia's First 4 Billion Years (3:27)
  • Deep Time (4:00)
  • Cosmic Violence (3:10)
  • Hadean Era (3:26)
  • Archean Era (3:06)
  • 3.8 Billion Years ago (2:44)
  • Shark Bay's Living Rock (3:34)
  • Late Archean Era (3:20)
  • Oxygen on Earth (3:27)
  • Proterozoic Era (3:40)
  • Cryogenian Era (3:31)
  • Tectonic Plates (1:55)
  • Ediacaran Era (2:47)
  • Cambrian Era (2:14)
  • Cambrian Explosion (3:05)
  • Redlichia (2:01)
  • Australian Rocky Landmarks (2:36)
  • Cambrian Australia (0:58)
  • Credits: Awakening: Australia's First 4 Billion Years (1:36)