The Making Of A Continent Ii

Genre: Educational

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: The Making of a Continent II: Part 1 -- Collision Course Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this film SummaryContinues the epic story of the formation of North America, to the heart of the continent. Chronicles its forging by titanic mountain - building processes, its population by an enormous variety of wildlife, the changes in the land as European settlers turned 'The Great American Desert' into the most productive agricultural area on earth. Part 1 of three parts examines evidence of continental collisions and the fossilized remains of earth's earliest life which litter the wasteland of Canada's Great Slave Lake.; Examines the traumatic geologic events that led to the shaping of the North American continent. Focuses on the Great Plains, rich in a carpet of sediments laid down over millions of years as wind and water wore down the continent's mountains. Explains that when the last of the Ice-Age glaciers retreated, the Great Lakes formed in the resulting depression. Based on gest Ron Redfern's book, The Making of a Continent.