History of the Earth
Songs Playlist
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artist
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song
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topic
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Bob Dylan |
Blowin' in the Wind |
atmospheric circulation |
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Traffic
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Rainmaker
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equatorial rain belt
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Sting
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Desert Rose
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desert belt
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Beach Boys
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Sloop John B.
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ocean currents
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| Sting | We Work the Black Seam | tropical coal |
| Kansas | Dust in the Wind | aeolian deposits |
| Disney Singers | Let it Snow | glacial deposits |
| Stevie Ray Vaughn | Texas Flood | flood plain deposition |
| Jimmy Buffet | A Pirate Looks at 40 |
coastal deposition |
| Steve Goodman | Grand Canyon Song | stratigraphy |
| Holler | Transgressions | shoreline transgression |
| Monteverdi | Deus in adjutorum | 17th century geology Nicolas Steno |
| Mozart | Symphony No. 39: Allegro | late 18th ct geology Strata Smith |
| Beethoven | Symphony No. 9: Ode to Joy | 19th ct geology the geologic timescale |
| Thomas Tallis | Gloria in exelsis Deo | Bishop Ussher, 17th ct |
| The Chieftains | Oh! The Breeches Full of Stitches | Joly (Irishman) 1899 age of the ocean |
| Chopin | Grande Valse Brillante | radioactivity, Paris 1896 Marie Curie |
| Debussy | Golliwog's Cakewalk | B.B. Boltwood, turn of 20th ct |
| Kraftwerk | Radioactivity | Radiometric Dating |
| Bad Religion | Modern Day Catastrophists | what caused the fossil succesion? |
| Sonia | Is This Evolution? | what caused the fossil succesion? |
| Ari Ben Moses Band | The Tree of Life | evidence for evolution |
| Pink Floyd | Breathe (in the air) | atmospheric composition |
| Bob Marley | Sun Is Shining | solar radiation |
| Sheryl Crow | Soak Up the Sun | greenhouse effect |
| Third World | 96 Degrees in the Shade | global warming |
| Emerson, Lake, and Palmer | From the Beginning | origin of the universe |
| Richard Strauss | Also Sprach Zarathustra | origin of the universe |
| Bach (McFerrin) | Air (On the G String) | origin of the atmosphere |
| Sting | After the Rain Has Fallen | origin of the oceans |
| Jimmy Buffet | A Pirate Looks At 40 (Mother, mother ocean) |
origin of the oceans |
| Bruce Springsteen | This Hard Land | origin of the continents |
| Pearl Jam | Animal | metazoans |
| The Beatles | Revolution | the Cambrian Revolution |
| Pearl Jam | Bugs | origin of insects |
| Led Zeppelin | Misty Mountain Hop | Appalachian Orogeny |
| Led Zeppelin | The Ocean (used to sing to the mountains, but the mountains washed away) | erosion of the Appalachians |
| Busta Rhymes | Extinction Level Event | Permo-Triassic mass extinction |
| David Messick | The Really Big Dinosaur Show | the dinosaurs |
| Izz | Meteor | extinction of the dinosaurs |
| Uncle Kracker | Drift Away | breakup of Pangea |
| Nomad | O'Connor-Shankar | India-Asia collision |
| John Denver | Rocky Mountain High | Laramide Orogeny |
| Vivaldi | Winter, from The Four Seasons | the Ice Ages |
| Dave Matthews Band | Proudest Monkey | hominid evolution |