Development of Continental Drift Frank Taylor (1910) Alfred Wegener (1912) Die Entstehung Der Kontinente Und Ozeane.

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Development of Continental Drift Frank Taylor (1910) Alfred Wegener (1912) Die Entstehung Der Kontinente Und Ozeane

Plate Tectonics Continental Drift Evidence of Plate Tectonics Earth’s Structure Plate Boundaries Hot Spots

The Permian Ice Age Problem

Frank Taylor Recognized role of Mid- Atlantic Ridge Never reconstructed the continents like Wegener did

Confirmation of Continental Drift World War II technology International Geophysical Year (IGY) Worldwide Standardized Seismic Network 1963-

The Geomagnetic Reversal Time Scale-Do Compass and Magnet Experiment

Discovery of Sea-Floor Spreading

Sea-Floor Spreading

Where Does Ocean Crust Go? Hugo Benioff, 1954

Benioff’s Interpretation

Benioff’s Interpretation Updated

Worldwide Standardized Seismic Network

The Plate Tectonics Model

The Earth’s Plates

Global Plate Motions

What Drives It: Convection

How Plates Move

Reconstructing Plate Movements

Fit of Continents Across the Atlantic

Present Day Atlantic

Atlantic 65 m.y. ago

Geology of Plate Margins

Ophiolites: Oceanic Crust

Plate Boundaries Divergent –Can create volcanoes, earthquakes, and mountains –Examples: Mid-Atlantic ridge, East Pacific Rise Convergent –Can create volcanoes (continental and island arc), earthquakes, and mountains –Examples: Juan De Fuca Plate and North America Plate Transform –Can create strong shallow earthquakes and folded mountains –Examples: San Andreas Fault

Anatomy of a Mid-Ocean Ridge

A Subduction Zone

Why Mountains are High

Where the Plates Meet

Terrane Accretion

Terranes in Western North America

Plate Boundaries and Earthquakes

Hot Spots

Hot Spots: Hawaii

Pacific Hot Spot Tracks