Name: Volatile Earth
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2017-07-31
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Mark Bazeley

This 2017 miniseries of "killer" natural phenomena surprisingly does not have an episode on earthquakes. Rehashed versions of the three episodes were screened in season 44 of the US documentary series Nova. The episodes on hurricanes and volcanoes were interesting as far as they went, but there is so much more evidence that could have been covered about the enormous influence volcanoes have had on the shaping of the earth and on life upon it. The episode on floods was most fascinating, but I have seen criticism by geologists that it was misleading and somewhat inaccurate. The impression was given that only recently had the formation of the Washington scablands by a massive flood been explained. In fact, however, the water source had been identified in 1910 by J T Pardee. The way the flood happened was deduced in the 1920s by J Harlan Bretz. Neither person was mentioned in this production. The description provided was actually less accurate than Bretz's. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the presentation and recommend it. 7 out of 10.

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