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The Swiss Alps are/part of a young maun tain belt that stretches from France through Europe to the Himalayas. Chris Hawkeswoarth visits these spectacular mountains to study the folding and metamorp...hisim which took place during their formation and evidence that shows that the mountains were formed when the Italian plate over-rode the European plate. From this study of young and comparatively high levels in the continental crust we turn to the Lewisian of North west Scotland. Steve Drury examines the features of this ancient low level crust and suggests mechanisms for it s formation and subsequent evolution.
The Swiss Alps are/part of a young maun tain belt that stretches from France through Europe to the Himalayas. Chris Hawkeswoarth visits these spectacular mountains to study the folding and metamorp...hisim which took place during their formation and evidence that shows that the mountains were formed when the Italian plate over-rode the European plate. From this study of young and comparatively high levels in the continental crust we turn to the Lewisian of North west Scotland. Steve Drury examines the features of this ancient low level crust and suggests mechanisms for it s formation and subsequent evolution.
| Module code and title: | S237, "The Earth, structure, composition and evolution" |
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| Item code: | S237; 15; 1983 |
| First transmission date: | 19-09-1983 |
| Published: | 1983 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:00 |
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| Producer: | Barrie Whatley |
| Contributors: | Stephen Drury; C Hawkesworth |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Alps; Chemical differentiation; Isochron; Lewisian; Metamorphism; Nappes; Orogenic belts; Schistocity; Shearing; Ultrabasic rocks |
| Production number: | FOUS256Y |
| Videofinder number: | 1605 |
| Available to public: | no |
