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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Tony Coates, Jeremy Jackson. Timecode In: 00:12:03. Timecode out: 00:16:46. Notes: Geology; Paleoecology. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Tony Coates, Jeremy Jackson. Timecode In: 00:46:28. Timecode out: 01:05:22. Notes: Geology; Paleoecology. Habitat: River. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Decoded MS stereo; Sennheiser MKH40 Cardioid Mid Mic and MKH30 Bidirectional Side Mic. PANAMA DARIEN Logs Dat #4 MS -stereo --Sennheiser 40 & 30 0:01:45 - 11:33 ****Preparing to leave from Union Choco ...Boat revs up motor and takes off.....3 good boat passes (second one is distorted, 3rd one too), SS: need to take all of the above and make one good boat scene: revving the engine, taking off in the dugout canoe, steaming upriver no need to find a fade point 12:41 AC: This is the second day of our exploration. We've come up the river today by boat -5 kilometers upriver from the village where we stayed, and we've come to the mouth of another small river, the Capite, a village of Indians, the Wunan. We've stopped here at a little place where some people are working on some boats, look like dugouts, look at the map see where we are and what's going to happen today. 13:30 TC: Both a problem and an advantage is the fact that the river is extremely low, even for the dry season this an extremely dry, dry season; and as a result we have difficulty getting around in the rivers even the main arteries, the main roads for the Embera in the Darien. We're going to take a little bit of an advantage in that we've noticed coming up several exposures of sediments that might contain fossils that are above water today, whereas they would never have normally been above water before and we've never seen them before...so we'll take a look at those on the way back. So basically we'll work our way slowly down the river stopping at a number of exposures and discussing what we find there and implications for our interpretation of the geological history of the Darien. Biff Bermingham will collect fish from this river to compare with those he's been collecting in other rivers, and he will be trying to work out the consequences of the geological evolution to the migration of fresh water fish through the river basins of the Darien. 15:04 *** 25:30 -35:00 FX Canoe drifting downriver no motor FX -Drifting down river by dugout canoe -with no motor ....Leo: audio landscape.... Most of it with kids swimming in the river. Good where boat is rubbing against the bottom, and the boatman is poling.... one place where a fly goes by, then sound of oar pushing against the rocky bottom of the river.... (before kids go swimming close by -then Leo turns the perspective -baby begins crying..... Gets good with more of rushing river sound, poling, less swimming kids -more birdy, (then no good..... leo chatting) Get out of the dugouts .....scientists at work in the field FX -*** 37:20 -37:32 hammering (Very short but good hammering) AC -You just picked up a log like section and it split into 10 pieces.... JJ and TC: It's no good....water gets in and eats away fossils ..... . TC: So the whole point of doing a river is....a river is rapidly eroding through whatever the bedrock is, and that's your best chance of finding fresh stuff.....but even then it doesn't always work. AC: It's in a process of destruction....which exposes stuff you want to get, but as it's doing it, it's further destroying it. TC: We're looking for a strange balance. As you can see, we've come up with great difficulty, when the river is very low, but that gives us the maximum amount of exposure of the sediments we're looking for; so ironically the most difficult time to do it logistically is the best time geologically. If the rock is too far above the river, never inundated and eroded, it will almost certainly have gone. And under the water, it's the freshest, but we can't g... (Notes truncated)
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- SONY TCD-D7
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- Sennheiser MKH 30; Sennheiser MKH 40
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- Cataloged
- 11 Feb 2005 - Ben Brotman
- Digitized
- 11 Feb 2005 - Ben Brotman
- Edited
- 11 Feb 2005 - Ben Brotman