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HISTORY VAULT

Sedimentary rocks are leached on a vast scale to extract gold in Nevada.

How the Earth Was Made

America's Gold

Charting the progress of different ice ages through the history of Earth and examining when the next one is due.

America's Ice Age

A massive volcanic eruption in Siberia kills 95 percent of the species on Earth 250 million years ago, paving the way for the age of the dinosaurs.

Earth's Deadliest Eruption

The Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state erupts in 1980, killing 57 people; studying the volcano's geology while wondering when it will explode again.

Mount St. Helens

Death Valley is a place of natural splendor and a treasure trove where geologists have found ironic evidence of the coldest period on the planet in one of its hottest places.

Death Valley

The geological history of Mount Everest and the Himalayas, formed when plate tectonics smashed India into Asia.

Everest

A 25,000-mile string of volcanoes rings the Pacific Ocean with fire, creating one of the most awesome sights on Earth.

Ring of Fire

Examining the debate over whether the spectacular Yosemite Valley was formed from gigantic glaciers or a cataclysmic rifting of the Earth.

Yosemite

Stretching from Alaska to New Mexico, the Rockies rank as one of the great mountain belts of the world and they are relatively young and still growing.

The Rockies

Astonishing geological discoveries reveal that the Sahara Desert had a dramatically different past that altered the course of human history and culminated in the biggest climate change event of the last 10,000 years.

Sahara

Digging into the geological mystery of the first billion years of Earth's existence as experts explore how the planet first formed from the dust of the solar system.

Birth of the Earth

An eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius destroyed the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and the volcano continues to threaten a densely populated area of 3 million people.

Vesuvius

Traveling the globe to reveal geological processes that shaped Earth.

S2 E3 | Birth of the Earth

E13 | America's Gold

E12 | America's Ice Age

E11 | Earth's Deadliest Eruption

E10 | Mount St. Helens

E9 | Death Valley

E8 | Everest

E7 | Ring of Fire

E6 | Yosemite

E5 | The Rockies

E4 | Sahara

E3 | Birth of the Earth

E2 | Vesuvius