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This programme takes us on a journey through Saskatchewan, Quebec, British Columbia, Texas and South Wales. It is possible to discover the nature of ancient rivers by comparing the sedimentary stru...ctures forming beneath modern rivers to sedimentary structures we find preserved in the rock record. The braided South Saskatchewan and Kicking Horse Pass rivers are very similar to ancient deposits found along coastlines of the Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec. Similarly the meandering Brazos river, Texas, reveals to us the secrets of the Devonian rocks near Llanstephan in South Wales.
Metadata describing this Open University video programme
Module code and title: S338, Sedimentary processes and basin analysis
Item code: S338; 07; 1988
Published: 1988
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Duration: 00:22:40
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Producer: Stuart Carter
Contributor: Brian Williams
Publisher: BBC Open University
Keyword(s): Brazos river; British Columbia; Canada; Gaspe peninsular; Kicking Horse River; Quebec; River systems; Saskatchewan; Texas; Wales
Subject terms: Rivers; Sediment transport; Sediments (geology)
Master spool number: HOU6163
Production number: FOUS540X
Videofinder number: 2140
Available to public: no