DigGeog » koolmoves http://www.digitalgeography.co.uk ICT in the geography classroom // let's have a #geographyriot Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:08:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Charmouth landslide animation http://www.digitalgeography.co.uk/archives/2006/01/charmouth-landslide-animation/ http://www.digitalgeography.co.uk/archives/2006/01/charmouth-landslide-animation/#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:01:42 +0000 Noel Jenkins http://www.digitalgeography.co.uk/archives/2006/01/charmouth-landslide-animation/ [...]]]> Earlier last week the BBC reported a “dramatic rescue” of fossil hunters, cut off on a rising tide by a large landslide in the unstable Jurassic cliffs at Charmouth, Dorset, UK.

I have made an animation to explain the cause of the slump, or at least, what I think happened!

charmouthclick the image to run the animation

The animation is made in Koolmoves. I really like this program, it’s much easier than Flash to learn, and it’s very good value for money. Some more of my animations may be found here.

I visited the site of the landslide to take some photographs, which can be seen at Flickr.

charmouthphotos

More information about the Jurassic coast here. Southampton University have a number of pages devoted to the geology of the region and this site has some useful visualizations about the mass movement processess operating locally. Fossil hunters might be interested in a description of the fossil-bearing strata and field guide found here.

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