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  1. Did Tibet Cool the Earth? (1997 Video)

    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Environmental science; Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2006 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In September 1994 an international expedition to Tibet to investigate a controversy linking the uplift of the Tibetan plateau with changes in the earth’s climate - with cooling and the strengthening of the...

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  2. Nature of Impacts and Their Impacts on Nature, The (1997 Video)

    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2006 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines the evidence for and the effects of extraterrestrial impacts on the earth’s surface. Asks if scientists really know whether a crater on earth was produced as a result of impact with a rock from...

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  3. Cretaceous Greenhouse World, The: Poles Apart (1997 Video)

    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 2006 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Paleobotanist Bob Spicer examines various field sites in New Zealand and several exotic locations around the world to show how plants and their fossils can give detailed information about the earth’s...

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  4. K-T Event, The (1997 Video)

    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Environmental science; Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2006 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows evidence for an extraterrestrial object colliding with the earth - the Chicxulub impact crater of more than 200km in diameter in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, rocks in Haiti and northern Mexico, and...

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  5. Daisyworld (1997 Video)

    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    sALE, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2006 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows James Lovelock, the originator of the Gaia hypothesis, at work at his home in Commbe Mill in Devon, surrounded by things and places that have inspired his writing. Looks at the Daisyworld modelling and...

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  6. Volcanoes and the Atmosphere (1997 Video)

    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Environmental science; Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2006 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines the mechanisms by which volcanic eruptions can cause short-term global effects and explores their possible role in profound environmental change. Shows the nature and extent of plateau lava...

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  7. Thorp: Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (1990 Video)

    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Chemistry; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 35 min.

    Visits THORP, the thermal oxide reprocessing plant at Sellafield. Shows receipt and storage operations; a small-scale demonstration of the chemistry of reprocessing with the separation of uranium, plutonium...

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  8. Voyages of Discovery (1988 Video)

    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Biology; Chemistry; Geology; Physics
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    An introduction to the four main science disciplines: physics, chemistry, biology and earth sciences, via a trip to the island of Madeira in the intelectual footsteps of Lyell, Darwin and Einstein.

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  9. Under the Volcano (1992 Video)

    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 72 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows how absolute, static and dynamic gravity surveys are carried out in the field. The volcanoes studied include Poas in Costa Rica and Etna in Sicily.

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  10. Origin of the Solar System: A Theory (1986 Video)

    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Professor A G W Cameron of Harvard University gives a specially commissioned tutorial of his latest ideas on the origin of the solar system.

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