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  1. Histoire d’Une Baie (1982 Film)

    Subject
    Geography; Geology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  2. Life on Seashores (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Filmed at the University Marine Biological Station on the Isle of Cumbrae, shows plants and animals of rocky and sandy shores and demonstrates some of the stresses that operate on sea shores and how the...

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  3. Dunes, Rivers and Ice in the Sahara (1980 Film)

    Director
    B Beuf
    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An account of how observations of sedimentary processes can be used to interpret ancient deposits. Concentrates on processes and rocks of the Sahara and deals with aeolian, fluvial, littoral and glacial...

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  4. Hydrological Simulation by Computer (1980 Film, Video)

    Director
    Gordon Thomson
    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Discusses the natural hydrological processes, their time variation and complicated interaction and computer simulation and its application to the complex problems of hydrology. Provides an insight into how...

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  5. Village, The (1980)

    Director
    Peter Mills
    Producer
    Stephanie Tennant
    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 25 min.

    Traces the development of the English village and considers whether this form of settlement can survive. Burford, Milton Abbas, Bourneville, and Long Milford are used as examples.

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  6. Bay of Mont St Michel, The (1979 Film)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  7. Circulation of Water in Karst (1978 Film)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Research conducted in various fields (hydrology, chemistry, physics, biology) on a karst area emphasizes the special structure of karstic aquifers, their hydrodynamical behaviour and the problems which arise...

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  8. Maps (1978 Video)

    Producer
    Jack Koumi
    Subject
    Geography; Mathematics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Uses models and animations to investigate a variety of plane maps of the earth. Shows that a ‘correct’ (distance preserving) map (i.e. an isometry) would also preserve shortest paths, angles and areas....

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  9. China: A Network of Communes (1977 Film)

    Producer
    Jens Bjerre
    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows rural and urban collective life in China as it existed before reforms drastically changed the commune structure. Shows communal organisation in a textile factory, the handling of childcare, birth...

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  10. Chuquiago (1977 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Geography
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Four separate but related stories of four Bolivians living in the capital, La Paz. Each focuses on a central character from a different class: Iscio, an Indian boy; Johnny, a 20-year-old bricklayer’s son;...

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