Lesson 5
Series made in 1976 - Understanding the Earth

First part of the hour long show was the segment called Planet of Man series hosted by world renowned Canadian Geophysicist
Tuzo Wilson.

The series host was Dr. David Pearson English trained, Canadian geologist residing in Sudbury, Ontario.

Dr. David Pearson lectured at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario.

This Canadian Series was made in 1976 - Understanding the Earth by TV Ontario. This series was part of a extension course at Laurentian, i believe from 1976 to 1986.

The entire series was 22 episodes. This series illustrated manual demonstrations in geological process.

http://sciencenorth.on.ca/heritagefair/hlm/1986pearson.html

Planet of Man Series -- Fire Within
Starring; Tuzo Wilson -- renowned Canadian geophysicist
Lesson 5 -- Part 1 of 7
•Illustration showing a crossection of Europe with respect to plates
•Occur at plates are colliding and pulling apart
•Vulcan the roman god of fire and earthquakes
•Mt Fugi Fire festival in japan "to soothe the restless God"
•Illustration showing distribution of volcanoes along the plates
•Two plates separate , two plates converge
•Roman statesman Pliny the Younger witnessed the eruption of Vesuvius on August 24th, 79 AD
•Mt Vesuvius movie footage from a movie of last century 'Kiberia??? accounting the story of the eruption as told by Pliny The Younger,vulcan, (less info)