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Liz McIvor discovers how carving up the landscape in order to build canals helped further our understanding of the earth below. The canal builders struggled with rocks. Without maps or geological s...urveys, construction often relied on guesswork. The Kennet and Avon had more than its fair share of problems. William Smith, a surveyor working on the connecting Somerset Coal Canal, discovered a way of ordering layers of rocks. He eventually created the first geological map of England and Wales - the so-called 'map that changed the world'
Liz McIvor discovers how carving up the landscape in order to build canals helped further our understanding of the earth below. The canal builders struggled with rocks. Without maps or geological s...urveys, construction often relied on guesswork. The Kennet and Avon had more than its fair share of problems. William Smith, a surveyor working on the connecting Somerset Coal Canal, discovered a way of ordering layers of rocks. He eventually created the first geological map of England and Wales - the so-called 'map that changed the world'
| Series: | Canals: the making of a nation |
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| Episode | 2 |
| Published: | 2015 |
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| Duration: | 00:29:00 |
| Note: | BBC One version |
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| Producer: | Andy Richards |
| Contributor: | Liz McIvor |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | BBC One website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b068c3zh |
| Subject terms: | Canals--Great Britain--Design and construction--History; Inland navigation--England--History; Geology--England--Maps; Geology--Wales--Maps; Geological cross sections--England; Geological cross sections--Wales |
| Production number: | FKIC344F |
| Available to public: | no |
