Mountain building.

Duration: 1 reel

Year Published: 1935

Creator: Erpi Picture Consultants Inc.

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: L: Limited Access CP: Composite Positive AC: Acetate A: 400' 16/8/9.5mm 16mm Black & White Sound 375 ERPI Classroom Films, Inc. , Animation and models re-enact significant geological history which shaped the Appalachian Mountains, New York Harbor and the Lewis Overthrust in the Rockies.

Complete Record: Reveals alternating types of earth strata as evidence that crustal movements have been both upward and downward. Explains faults, anticlines, synclines, geosynclines. and unconformities. Illustrates with animated drawings the probable formation of the Lewis Overthrust. Explains earthquake zones, and refers to geologic problems in mining and structural engineering. ocean, mountains, canyon, earth crust, shifting in earth crust, mountain formations, erosion. rocky terrain, spinning earth, earthquake damage, dams, caving, mining, oil

Metadata Source:Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62)

3 users have this film:
Library of Congress, Oddball Film and Video, University of Georgia Walter J Brown Media Archives and Peabody Collection

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