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Shows some of the varied landforms that occur in the Sahara Desert and compares them with rocks formed in similar environments in Britain millions of years ago.
It is with sadness that we report that Professor Michael Clark died on Friday 11 April. Mike died following a long illness that spanned more than 7 years - he had a rare form of cancer of the liver that, for...
Evidence shows that a large part of North America was once covered with ice, that ice does actually move and in doing so, modifies the landscape over which it passes.
Illustrates the range of ripples occurring on natural beaches and then interprets the growth of these bed forms, using recirculating flumes and a wave tank. Oscillatory and unidirectional flow are...
Compiled mainly from photographs of British coastal and inland outcrops with some line drawings and rock specimens. Includes variations in fold and fault morphology, their minor structures, the ‘way up’...
Track A: DESERT LANDFORMS: MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS. Track B: DESERT LANDFORMS: DUNES AND CLIMATIC CHANGE. Introduces the great variability (climatic, tectonic, geological, edaphic and biological) of deserts,...
The geomorphological history of the Bay of Mont St Michel is reconstructed from the peak of the last glaciation, through the Flandrian transgression, to the rapid depositional history of recent times. The...
Discusses the tides and their influence on the sedimentation dynamics of the bay; the quantity and spreading of sediments; the main sedimentary environments of the bay, from the sandy sublittoral area to the...
Castleguard is an alpine cave under the Columbia icefield in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies. In 1973 a group of speleologists, led by Derek Ford, set out to explore this system. Demonstrates the...
Concerns research on the land mass from which the British Isles was created and the links with earthquake activity in the Aegean area, possibly linked to the size of the British North Sea oil field.
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