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How the Earth Was Made

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Tonight's TV Hot List: Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Mar 10, 2009 03:30 AM ET
by TV Guide News

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
10 pm/ET NBC
The month of March fittingly brings the return of Stephanie March, who begins reprising her role as ADA Alex Cabot in the first of several episodes. Benson and Stabler are shocked to see her at a crime scene, where she's filling in for the temporarily reassigned Greylek. Tonight Alex tackles the case of a murdered pediatrician who had been found guilty of molesting several patients. Shortly after his conviction, he filed a lawsuit against the NYPD, claiming they hesitated to take legal action against him. — Jennifer Sankowski

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Earth's Deadliest...

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Earth's Deadliest Eruption

Season 2, Episode 11
In the remote wastes of Siberia buried under snow are the remains of one of the greatest catastrophes that the Earth has endured. 250 million years ago, huge volumes of lava spewed out onto the surface--so much that it would have buried the whole of Texas under one mile of lava. At first the temperature dipped but then the greenhouse gases that escaped from the depressurized lava caused a massive global warming. It wreaked havoc and 95% of the species on Earth became extinct. Yet life hung on and in time this disaster paved the way for the next great phase of life on earth--the age of the dinosaurs.
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Length: 13:41:48
Aired: 2/9/2010

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Death Valley

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Death Valley

Season 2, Episode 9
It is not only a place of natural splendor but a geologic treasure trove as well. Hidden in the sediments of the rocks in its walls is evidence of the coldest time on our planet--ironic in one of the hottest places on Earth. Death Valley is literally being pulled apart and the floor is collapsing and lower than sea level. Here and across much of Nevada is the Basin and Range province--a series of ridges of mountain ranges that are being pulled apart and the basins between them getting wider and flat as they fill with eroded sediment.
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Length: 12:52:51
Aired: 1/26/2010

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The Rockies

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The Rockies

Season 2, Episode 6
From Alaska to New Mexico, the Rockies are one of the great mountain belts of the world--caused by tectonic forces of the Pacific Plate pushing against the North American continent. They have formed as the earth's continental crust has been shortened under pressure--by around 1 inch a year. What's more, they are still rising and they are still young in geologic terms: when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth they had not even started to form.
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Length: 08:52:04
Aired: 12/22/2009

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Yosemite

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Yosemite

Season 2, Episode 5
The Sierra Nevada, North America's highest mountain range, contains one of the most awe-inspiring geological features on the planet: Yosemite Valley. Walled by sheer 3,000-foot granite cliffs and made from one of the toughest rocks on earth, it is home to the mighty El Capitan and iconic Half Dome. Yet how this extraordinary valley formed has been the subject of controversy for over 100 years. Was it carved by gigantic glaciers or a cataclysmic rifting of the Earth?
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Length: 18:54:53
Aired: 12/22/2009

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