What is geotechnical engineering ?
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What is Geotechnical Engineering? The International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) offers a comprehensive video overview of geotechnical engineering, and the profession's main fields of practice, such us soil mechanics, foundation engineering...
Learn more at http://www.whatisgeotech.org and http://www.issmge.org
Plate Tectonics from the Film Makers' Point of View
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Plate tectonics is one of the school of tectonics in the field of Earth sciences. However, theory of Plate tectonics is really a stubborn subject to geological students.
Hopefully those students should have a positive emotion to Plate tectonics after enjoying the video clip made by Fox Movies.
Ice Age 4: Continental Drift
The Earth... 100 million Years Later ?
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Plate tectonics explains the origin of mountain ranges as the products of the collisison between plates (continental or oceanic plates). For instance, Himalayas is resulted in the collision of Inidan and Eurasian plates from 50 million years ago; or Alps is the product of the collision between Africa and Europe plates. |