Outdoor Idaho: Idaho Geology: A Convergence of Wonders

Video Title: 

Outdoor Idaho: Idaho Geology: A Convergence of Wonders

Producer/Distributor: 

NEW16 Outdoor Idaho

Disks: 

1

Length (min): 

60

Year Created: 

2012

Description and/or Review: 

MEMBER REVIEW: This 2012 Idaho Public Television production is a grand tour of Idaho, with lots of interesting geological information. The program is Outdoor Idaho, so it turns into a travleogue with geological information about halfway through. But Idaho is quite diverse with mountains, mining, volcanics, loess, sand dunes, natural springs that people dive in, and much more. It is beautifully shot. There are a couple of places I shouted at my TV when they said their 2.5 billion year old rocks are among the oldest on the continent. I think not. The samples of Morton Gneiss I have in my living room are 3.4 to 3.6 billion years old. Other than that, it is a very well done video and well worth watching. Description: The evidence is everywhere. Astonishing things have happened to a place we call Idaho. We search for answers in the folds and fractures, floods and bewildering formations. Ours is definitely not a landscape for the timid. Yet this land also beckons us to explore and to enjoy. In this exploration of a geology that has inspired and frustrated every generation, we examine the forces that unite us and divide us, and bind us together as a state.

Format: 

DVD