Animations
This is a new and exciting development where diagrams are brought to life. They are an excellent way of improving your understanding of some of the key processes that take place in our world.
Many are from the Department of Geology and Geography at the University of West Virginia - Just click on the links below for access.
Rivers
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Waterfalls - stage by stage processes that lead to their formation |
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How a river erodes - Watch the processes of Traction and Saltation occur |
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Ox Bow Lakes - Watch the sequence of how meanders eventually form an Oxbow Lake |
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Flood Plains and Levees - Stage by stage on how features on the flood plain are created |
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HEP - A nice working diagram of how Hydro Electric Power is created |
Plate Tectonics
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How Rift Valleys are produced and how they turn into Constructive Plate Boundaries |
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Convection Currents and how they move in the mantle of the earth |
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Constructive plate boundaries and how earthquakes and volcanoes take place |
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Destructive plate boundaries and how they cause volcanoes and earthquakes |
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Island Arc formation such as the Japanese Islands |
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Collision plate boundaries such as the formation of the Himalayas |
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Hot spot volcanoes and how they are formed such as the ones at Hawaii |
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Seismographs and how they show an Earthquake taking place |
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The theory of Plate Tectonics and how the continents developed from the original - Pangaea |
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How do Geysers work? |
Coasts
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How waves reach the coast showing their main features |
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Destructive and Constructive waves and their main features |
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How the process of long shore drift works along a coast |
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Bars and Spits - How they are formed |
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How spits and salt marshes are formed |
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How coasts are eroded and cliffs, arches and stacks formed |
The Atmosphere
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An excellent introduction to the atmosphere and how it works |
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A look at the global energy budget |
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An excellent site from the University of Oregon with links to a number of animations |
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Global wind circulation - an excellent interactive site |
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Another interactive site looking at the annual changes in weather |
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The causes and consequences of Global warming |
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El Nino observation maps |
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Excellent for looking at up to the minute information on rainfall with radar animations |
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Another site from the Met Office showing 3 day forecasts |
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An interactive animation to explain warm and cold fronts |