It’s another Monday, with less than 2 months to Christmas – so 2020 has been the year of madness, and you, like me, will be glad to see the back of it. That said, all the upheavals have perhaps given us some time to think, and there have been revolutionary changes in the way we do things, so I am trying to find the silver lining in a dark cloud.
The long and winding road
One of the silver linings is that I have been able to sit down and dedicate myself to creating all sorts of geographical content, and start reaching out to the broader teaching community, which now finds you and me travelling a road together. The long and winding road as Paul McCartney sang all those years ago.
It is 66 pages of history, adventure, and of course the nuts and bolts of the theory
So I am grinding out teaching material – the Plate Tectonics e-book is done so if you would like a copy you can purchase it here. It is 66 pages of history, adventure, and of course the nuts and bolts of the theory, bearing in mind that earth scientists view the world through a plate tectonics lens, and so should physical geographers.
We have also started work on the rock weathering portion of the syllabus, so was out on the weekend filming the most magnificent root systems forcing their way into the joints within the rock mass – those roots look like something out of an Indiana Jones movie or the temple complex of Angkor Wat.
It might be a fun way for you to kick off your geography lesson at the start of a new week
Check out the short video on mechanical weathering here. These movies might be a fun way for you to kick off your geography lesson at the start of a new week, so looking forward to your feedback on what you would like to see on the Rock and Sky YouTube channel, or in the blog posts, or even what courses you would like us to focus on first.
It is just 5 m short of the height of Victoria Falls
Further to last weeks blog post, which can be found here, I posted up a very short video of a very beautiful landscape/seascape, where rivers, the ocean and the underlying geology has led to this exquisitely lovely place. Go check it out here. Staying with the video theme, I also flew the drone down the Karkloof Falls, which at 103 m is just 5 m short of the height of Victoria Falls. It is not as wide as its Zambezi counterpart, but nevertheless it is a spectacular sight in full flood. Seeing that it is only the start of the rainy season the falls were quite dry, but still magnificent. The gusts and updrafts were difficult to manage and at one stage I thought that I had lost the drone – only to find it still airborne. Check out that video here.
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An Invitation
Start your geographical adventures by reading our articles here. They are pertinent to the physical geography courses that we have to teach, and do much to frame the subject and to provide insights that are not normally to be found in the text books. Enjoy, and leave your comments and requests in the comments section.
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