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Develops the theory that four and a half thousand million years ago the earth was formed due to the explosion of a huge star which provided the rocks, the minerals and the radioactivity from which life...
Describes the activities of a group of Scottish teachers and pupils attending a field course in exploration geophysics. The course was sponsored by the Mineral Industry Manpower and Careers Unit and run by...
Shows scientists at Houston’s Lunar Receiving Laboratory analysing lunar rocks samples brought back by astronauts. Animated segments illustrate the origins of lunar topography. Other segments show how...
Covers many aspects of earthquakes: plate tectonics, the San Andreas fault, earthquake mechanics, seismographs, P and S waves, seismic velocity changes, tiltmeters, ground elevation, water wells, strange...
Looks at ways of identifying the composition of rock samples.
Shows a slate mine in the Hunsrück district. The mine, where fossiliferous slates are worked, was leased for research. Professor Stürmer developed an X-ray method for taking pictures of fossils in this...
Looks at how an earthquake shattered San Francisco in 1906 and a more recent earthquake in suburban Los Angeles. Also looks at the causes of earthquakes and at fault systems. Examines the attempts by NASA to...
The Omo palaeontological strata in the Rift Valley, north of Lake Rudolf, Ethiopia, have become the strata of reference for the pliocene and pleistocene periods in Africa. The thickness of the sedimentary...
Introduces geology students to the kind of thinking required to set up an actualistic model for interpreting ancient environments. The theme is the need to study modern processes at all scales from the...
The opening sequences illustrate, with the aid of an optical bench, the general theory of the formation of the Becke line. The theory is then applied to microscope studies using both grain mounts and thin...
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