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onto GTAV AC:G Y8 - Landforms and landscapes January 19, 2013 11:25 PM
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Each year photographer Krystle Wright heads to the midwest, drawn by the majestic supercell storms and tornados that can turn blue skies into black fury
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Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Landforms Level 8
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Holidaymakers flocking to coastal areas this long weekend have been urged to stay away from unstable cliffs after a huge hole opened up on South Australia's Limestone Coast without warning.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Coasts and coastal erosion as a landscape
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The Pacific Ring of Fire is a 40,000 km long belt of volcanoes, seismic activity, and mineral deposits that surrounds the Pacific Ocean like a necklace of pearls.
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The fatal earthquake that hit Christchurch, New Zealand, on 22 February 2011 killed 185, wrecked the city’s CBD and undermined its eastern suburbs. Ten years on, Christchurch has learnt some valuable lessons in city planning.
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Australia is a unique continent. This short video introduces the physical geography of Australia using a colourful topographic map. Viewers are shown the three major physical regions of the continent, the lack of large mountains and consider why relatively few people live in Australia given its size.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Good geophysical introduction to Australia
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40 years ago, last moments before Mount St. Helens eruption caught on camera
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Excellent historical pictures and a very well documented case study
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Reykjanes peninsula’s last active period started in 10th century and lasted 300 years
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Where the plates separate, Iceland shows us spreading plates in a visible form. Plate tectonics are real here.
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The third large-scale coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef is under way, with regions of the centre and south more badly affected than in 2016 and 2017.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
It is easy to let long term concerns go whilst under our short term threat. this is important for students to know and understand.
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Many injures when this earthquake felt across 5 countries.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Not fair! An earthquake in the middle of a pandemic?
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Scientists warn ‘hazardous eruption’ imminent as offices, schools and airports closed
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Good case study in the Philippines
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The explosive event was “the actual worst-case scenario,” geologists report.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Predicting Volcanic Eruptions - usually quite accurate!
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Less than a week ago, GeoNet, which monitors geological activity for New Zealand, said observations indicated the volcano may have been entering a period when eruptive activity was higher than normal.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Hazards associated with volcanoes are frequent.
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If confirmed, the temblor would be a shock to geologists who thought rocks that deep inside Earth were too putty-like to break and shake.
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This animated map shows the last billion years of Earth's tectonic plate movement in just 40 seconds, showing how continents formed.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Plate Tectonics - the basis of so many landforms
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Series of articles on the modern Australian outback
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The Indonesian volcano erupted on Tuesday, sending clouds of ash up to 5km (3.1 miles) into the sky.
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Glow with the flow.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Lovely! Very good introduction for Landforms and Landscapes
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The largest earthquake instrumentally recorded had a magnitude of 9.5 and occurred in southern Chile on May 22, 1960. It produced a tsunami that killed people around the Pacific Basin - in Hawaii, California, Japan, the Philippines and other locations.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Excellent article on the strongest ever recorded earthquake
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This distinctive physical map of the Atlantic Ocean floor appeared on National Geographic as a supplement to the map of the Atlantic.
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Excellent sources for plate tectonics and other studies of landforms
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Hadrian's Wall (Vallum Hadriani) was a defensive fortification built by the Roman Empire to seperate the province of Britainnia from the northern lands of Caledonia. Construction begun in AD 122 during the reign of Emperor Hadrian and ran from the River Tyne near the North Sea to the Solway Firth on the Irish Sea.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Link history with Geography! This photograph clearly show the placement of Hadrians Wall on the north facing scarp of the Whin Sill. This could be a study of some sites that used geological features in their construction 9Edinburgh Castle etc).
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Detailed earthquake information - overview map, magnitude, time, depth, information source, shake map, list of reports. Feature interactive map: submit / read I-felt-an-earthquake reports and links to further info. / VolcanoDiscovery
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
A really good site for students to research earthquakes and volcanoes.
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Plate Tectonics poster from Geological Society of London
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clear and detailed
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Philippine authorities fear a "hazardous eruption" is possible "within hours or days".
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
Volcanoes offer great benefits as well as dangers.
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A new study ranks the importance and vulnerability of high-mountain stores of water.
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Mountains are vital to the biosphere - this article discussed the water supply.
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CD - The geomorphic processes that produce landforms, including a case study of at least one landform.
Links here to animations to show folding, faulting - not all links working when tested on 20/01/13 but still worth a look