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Understanding mountain building involves unraveling how and why rocks deform. Geologists Nigel Harris and John Whalley tour the Scottish segment of the Caledonian orogenic Belt to untangle the kinematics and the chronology of deformation. This material forms part of The Open University course S339, Understanding the continents.

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Understanding mountain building involves unraveling how and why rocks deform. Geologists Nigel Harris and John Whalley tour the Scottish segment of the Caledonian orogenic Belt to untangle the kinematics and the chronology of deformation. This material forms part of The Open University course S339, Understanding the continents.

    Geological structures exposed

    Geological structures exposed

    A short introduction to this album.

    • 36 sec
    Transcript -- Geological structures exposed

    Transcript -- Geological structures exposed

    A short introduction to this album.

    • video
    Overview of the Orogenic Belt

    Overview of the Orogenic Belt

    The three main components of the Orogenic Belt; Lewisian gneisses, Torridonian sandstone and sediments laid down from Cambrian times.

    • 4 min
    Transcript -- Overview of the Orogenic Belt

    Transcript -- Overview of the Orogenic Belt

    The three main components of the Orogenic Belt; Lewisian gneisses, Torridonian sandstone and sediments laid down from Cambrian times.

    • video
    A history of movement

    A history of movement

    Evidence that the Moine Thrust is the result of frictional sliding.

    • 4 min
    Transcript -- A history of movement

    Transcript -- A history of movement

    Evidence that the Moine Thrust is the result of frictional sliding.

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