Earth and Environmental Sciences
Introduction to Earth Sciences I

S1011D - S1411D


Play List


Prof. V.J. DiVenere

artist
song
topic
Richard Strauss
Also Sprach Zarathustra
origin of the universe
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
From the Beginning
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
Audioslave
Like a Stone
minerals and rocks
Rolling Stones
Heart of Stone
minerals and rocks
Bob Dylan
Like a Rolling Stone
minerals and rocks
No Doubt Rock Steady minerals and rocks
No Doubt Start the Fire igneous rocks
Sheryl Crow Solidify crystallization of magma
Jimmy Buffet Volcano volcanoes
Presidents of the USA
Volcano
volcanoes
Bop Dylan
Buckets of Rain
weathering
Creed
Weathered
weathering
Phish
Sand
sediments
The Dogtones Workin' in a Coal Mine biogenic sedimentary rocks
Sting We Work the Black Seam biogenic sedimentary rocks
Toni Braxton The Heat metamorphism
Billy Joel Pressure metamorphism
Aaron Waters Mighty Morphing Power Rangers metamorphism
David Bowie Changes metamorphism
B.B. King It's My Own Fault faults
Carole King I Feel the Earth Move earthquakes
Tori Amos Little Earthquakes earthquakes
No Doubt Underneath it All Earth's interior
Pearl Jam Oceans marine magnetic anomalies

Uncle Kracker
(or Dobie Gray)

Drift Away seafloor spreading
Nora Jones Cold, Cold Heart
(...drifting apart)
seafloor spreading
Bruce Springsteen The Rising mantle plumes
Phish Dirt soils
Peter Gabriel Digging in the Dirt soils
Fleetwood Mac
(or Dixie Chicks)
Landslide mass wasting
James Brown Gravity

mass wasting

Morcheeba Friction mass wasting
Dire Straits Water of Love
(deep in the ground)
groundwater
The Talking Heads Take Me To the River streams
Bruce Springsteen The River streams

Ike and Tina Turner (or
Credence Clearwater Revival)

Proud Mary
("...rolling on a river")
streams
The Doobie Brothers Black Water sediment transport
Sheryl Crow
Riverwide
("...it winds and winds around")
stream meanders
Nirvana On a Plain flood plains
Johnny Cash Five Foot High and Rising streams - flooding
Led Zeppelin When the Levee Breaks streams - flooding
Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas Flood streams - flooding
Sade Flow
("like a river to the sea")
streams
The Beach Boys Surfin' Safari coastal processes
The Beach Boys Surfer Girl coastal processes
The Ramones Rockaway Beach coastal processes
Getz/Gilberto/Jobim The Girl From Ipanema coastal processes
David Gray Tidal Wave coastal processes
The Disney Singers Let It Snow glacial processes
Ray Charles Winter Wonderland glacial processes
Kansas Dust in the Wind aeolian processes
Sting Desert Rose aeolian processes