lecture12
Table of Contents
- Global Tectonics: Plates and Plumes
- Why study plates and their motions?
- Why study plates and their motions?
- Why study plates and their motions?
- Why study plates and their motions?
- Why study plates and their motions?
- Why study plates and their motions?
- Why study plates and their motions?
- Why study plates and their motions?
- Why study plates and their motions?
- Why study plates and their motions?
- Why study plates and their motions?
- Continental Drift
- Why study plates and their motions?
- 12.1 How does continental drift relate to plate tectonics?
- 12.1 How does continental drift relate to plate tectonics?
- 12.1 How does continental drift relate to plate tectonics?
- 12.2 What is the evidence that plates are rigid?
- 12.2 What is the evidence that plates are rigid?
- 12.2 What is the evidence that plates are rigid?
- 12.2 What is the evidence that plates are rigid?
- 12.2 What is the evidence that plates are rigid?
- 12.2 What is the evidence that plates are rigid?
- 12.2 What is the evidence that plates are rigid?
- 12.2 What is the evidence that plates are rigid?
- 12.2 What is the evidence that plates are rigid?
- 12.2 What is the evidence that plates are rigid?
- 12.2 What is the evidence that plates are rigid?
- 12.2 What is the evidence that plates are rigid?
- 12.3 What is the evidence that plates move apart at divergent plate boundaries?
- 12.3 What is the evidence that plates move apart at divergent plate boundaries?
- 12.3 What is the evidence that plates move apart at divergent plate boundaries?
- 12.3 What is the evidence that plates move apart at divergent plate boundaries?
- 12.3 What is the evidence that plates move apart at divergent plate boundaries?
- Age of Crusts
- Magnetic Record of Seafloors
- 12.3 What is the evidence that plates move apart at divergent plate boundaries?
- 12.3 What is the evidence that plates move apart at divergent plate boundaries?
- 12.3 What is the evidence that plates move apart at divergent plate boundaries?
- Seismic Tomography Data
- Rift Valleys
- Forming Seas
- 12.3 What is the evidence that plates move apart at divergent plate boundaries?
- 12.3 What is the evidence that plates move apart at divergent plate boundaries?
- 12.4 What is the evidence that subduction occurs at convergent plate boundaries?
- 12.4 What is the evidence that subduction occurs at convergent plate boundaries?
- 12.4 What is the evidence that subduction occurs at convergent plate boundaries?
- 12.4 What is the evidence that subduction occurs at convergent plate boundaries?
- 12.4 What is the evidence that subduction occurs at convergent plate boundaries?
- 12.4 What is the evidence that subduction occurs at convergent plate boundaries?
- 12.4 What is the evidence that subduction occurs at convergent plate boundaries?
- Seismic Tomography
- 12.4 What is the evidence that subduction occurs at convergent plate boundaries?
- 12.4 What is the evidence that subduction occurs at convergent plate boundaries?
- 12.4 What is the evidence that subduction occurs at convergent plate boundaries?
- 12.4 What is the evidence that subduction occurs at convergent plate boundaries?
- Convergent Plate Boundaries
- 12.4 What is the evidence that subduction occurs at convergent plate boundaries?
- 12.4 What is the evidence that subduction occurs at convergent plate boundaries?
- 12.5 What is the evidence that plates slide past one another at transform plate boundaries?
- Fault Displacement
- 12.5 What is the evidence that plates slide past one another at transform plate boundaries?
- 12.5 What is the evidence that plates slide past one another at transform plate boundaries?
- 12.5 What is the evidence that plates slide past one another at transform plate boundaries?
- 12.6 What does the mantle-plume hypothesis explain that plate tectonics cannot explain?
- 12.6 What does the mantle-plume hypothesis explain that plate tectonics cannot explain?
- 12.6 What does the mantle-plume hypothesis explain that plate tectonics cannot explain?
- 12.6 What does the mantle-plume hypothesis explain that plate tectonics cannot explain?
- 12.6 What does the mantle-plume hypothesis explain that plate tectonics cannot explain?
- 12.6 What does the mantle-plume hypothesis explain that plate tectonics cannot explain?
- 12.6 What does the mantle-plume hypothesis explain that plate tectonics cannot explain?
- 12.7 How do we know ... that plates move in real time?
- 12.7 How do we know ... that plates move in real time?
- Global Plate Motion
- 12.7 How do we know ... that plates move in real time?
- 12.7 How do we know ... that plates move in real time?
- Measurements and Predictions
- 12.7 How do we know ... that plates move in real time?
- 12.7 How do we know ... that plates move in real time?
- 12.8 What forces cause plate motions and plumes?
- 12.8 What forces cause plate motions and plumes?
- 12.8 What forces cause plate motions and plumes?
- 12.8 What forces cause plate motions and plumes?
- 12.8 What forces cause plate motions and plumes?
- 12.9 What were the consequences of plate motion over geologic time?
- 12.9 What were the consequences of plate motion over geologic time?
- 12.9 What were the consequences of plate motion over geologic time?
- 12.9 What were the consequences of plate motion over geologic time?
- 12.9 What were the consequences of plate motion over geologic time?
- 12.9 What were the consequences of plate motion over geologic time?
- 12.9 What were the consequences of plate motion over geologic time?
- 12.9 What were the consequences of plate motion over geologic time?
- 12.9 What were the consequences of plate motion over geologic time?
- 12.9 What were the consequences of plate motion over geologic time?
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12.2 What is the evidence that plates are rigid?
- Plate tectonics theory states that lithospheric plates are rigid, concentrating deformation at their boundaries with little occurring in the interiors.
- Most earthquakes and volcanoes concentrate in narrow zones along plate boundaries, so deformation is restricted to the margins of plates. Intraplate earthquake bands, though, imply a semirigid behavior for some plates.
- Plate tectonics does not explain hot spot volcanoes, but they are few enough not to discount the theory.
- Young, still-growing mountain belts coincide with deforming plate boundaries. Ancient mountain belts mark the location of former plate boundaries.