lecture12


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?