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1 Modern Concepts in Earth Science Course 1 - Plate Tectonics

2 Modern Concepts in Earth Science Layering within the Earth

3 Modern Concepts in Earth Science Lithospheric Plates

4 Modern Concepts in Earth Science Relative Plate Motions

5 Modern Concepts in Earth Science Keller ‘02, after Hamblin, ‘92 Global Distribution of Earthquakes

6 Modern Concepts in Earth Science Continental Drift

7 Modern Concepts in Earth Science Evidence for Continental Drift

8 Modern Concepts in Earth Science Break-Up of Pangaea Source: Dietmar Muller, Sydney University

9 Modern Concepts in Earth Science Go to Movie now

10 Modern Concepts in Earth Science Forces Ductile Deformation Brittle Deformation Forces and Deformation

11 Modern Concepts in Earth Science Types of Plate Boundary

12 Modern Concepts in Earth Science Divergent Boundary Copy write Tasa Graphic Arts

13 Modern Concepts in Earth Science Rate of Seafloor Spreading

14 Modern Concepts in Earth Science Keller, 2002 Age of the Ocean Floor

15 Modern Concepts in Earth Science Continental Rift

16 Modern Concepts in Earth Science The Evolution of a Rift East African Rift Red Sea Atlantic Ocean Copy write Tasa Graphic Arts

17 Modern Concepts in Earth Science Copy write Tasa Graphic Arts Convergent Boundaries

18 Modern Concepts in Earth Science Convergent Boundaries Copy write Tasa Graphic Arts

19 Modern Concepts in Earth Science Convergent Boundaries Copy write Tasa Graphic Arts

20 Modern Concepts in Earth Science Himalayan Orogeny

21 Modern Concepts in Earth Science Transform Boundaries

22 Modern Concepts in Earth Science Transform Boundaries

23 Modern Concepts in Earth Science San Andreas Fault Wallace Creek Strike-Slip Offsets

24 Modern Concepts in Earth Science Tectonics of Asia Molnar & Tapponnier, 1977 SUNDA PLATE INDIAN PLATE EURASIAN PLATE BURMA MICROPLATE


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