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A Grown-Up Guide to Planet Earth

By: Prof. Christopher Jackson
Narrated by: Prof. Christopher Jackson
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  • Audible takes you on a journey through the Earth, to experience our planet in a way you’ve never encountered before.

    A Grown-Up Guide to Planet Earth is a tour of our world from the inside, out. Geologist Professor Chris Jackson plunges into the molten world beneath our feet, to reveal what drives the explosive power of volcanoes and destructive energy of earthquakes.

    Starting at the super-heated core, Chris will guides you through the layers of the Earth reaching up to the edge of space. And you’ll discover how all these layers combine to make Planet Earth the perfect, and (as far as we know) the only, place in the Universe that’s home to complex life.  

    Producer: Listen Entertainment
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  • Ep. 1: Journey From the Centre of the Earth

    Ep. 1: Journey From the Centre of the Earth
    Sep 29 2021

    We start by looking up. Aurorae are seen at the outer edge of the atmosphere, born from hidden processes happening deep inside the Earth’s core.
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    27 mins
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  • Ep. 2: The Earth Erupts

    Ep. 2: The Earth Erupts
    Sep 29 2021

    Volcanic eruptions can be beautiful and mesmerising, or explosive and disastrous. Either way, they reveal what’s happening deep within the vast churning mantle. Chris uncovers the secrets of this misunderstood part of the Earth. 
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    32 mins
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  • Ep. 3: The Earth Moves

    Ep. 3: The Earth Moves
    Sep 29 2021

    Earthquakes rock the Earth’s crust, the thin layer of rock on which all of human existence has played out. Yet the crust is just one per cent of the mass of the Earth. It’s reliable, solid, still...at least, most of the time. 
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    25 mins
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Very informative

A great audiobook, well narrated and very informative. A concise explanation of everything from the earths core to the outermost atmosphere.
A pleasure to listen to. Can highly recommend.

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Mind blowing.

Utterly fascinating and wonderfully explained account of the geology of this amazing planet that we live on. Highly recommend.

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Light Fun Educational

fascinating how we has humans are so inconsequential in the earth's time frame yet in our limit time what devastation we have and continue to wrought.

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interesting listen

these podcasts were an interesting listen. Good detail made accessible .

Would like to see more in the series.

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Who would have known?

Great podcast and very informative. I definitely recommend this podcast to anyone who wants to know more about how our planet works.

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a bit blinkered.

there is no doubt we are stripping the planet of resources that have taken millions of years to produce, but the planets climate has had hugh swings before you could blame humans. tell the people the truth, resources are running out!

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I love the Human Earth me

It's a topic I Can't get enough of and picking up snoippets like if the history of the Earth where condensed into 1 year, the human race didn't appear until the last second of December 31st. With our individual lifespan being 70-75 years, and the Earth has been around for 4.5 billion years...how can we destroy it the way we have?

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Well worth listening too!!

I really enjoyed listening to this same as I did the rest of there collection.
You learn a lot from this.
I really would recommend to anyone!

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Loved It!

I enjoyed this even more than the dinosaur edition in this series (which I enjoyed very much)!
Such an informative and interesting listen.

The people interviewed clearly have a passion for what they do, which makes it even more of a riveting listen.

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Fall in love with geology

Thank you so much for this series. It’s intelligent, engaging and more up-to-date than my A-level geography from many years ago. Makes me want to delve deeper. Would love to see more of these series covering say, Climatology, oceanography, hydrology, geomorphology etc.

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