1. Walter D. Mooney, Ph.D. US Geological Survey Menlo Park, California USA mooney@usgs.gov Lecture #15: Continental Margins IPRCC and SinoProbe Short Course: Lithospheric Evolution through Time April 8-12, 2011

2. Global Seismic Refraction Catalog (GSC) Dr. Walter D. Mooney U.S. Geological Survey March, 2010

3. (From left to right) George Shor, Maurice Ewing and Russell W. Raitt Influential Marine Geophysicists

7. Contour Maps

8. Thickness of Sediments

10. Ritzmann et al. (2007, GJI) Thickness of Sediments

11. Moho Depth

13. Cross Sections

14. Models of Continental Margins and Basins Press et al. (1995, Understanding Earth 4 th ed.)

15. North America – Atlantic Coast Funck et al. (2004, JGR)

16. North America- Atlantic Coast Funck et al. (2004, JGR) North America – Atlantic Coast

17. West African Coast Contrucci et al. (2004, GJI)

18. West African Coast

20. Southern African Continental margin Parsiegla et al. ( 2007, S. African Jour. of Geo.)

21. Southern African Continental margin Parsiegla et al. ( 2009, Geochem. Geophys. Geosys.)

22. Voss and Jokat (2007, GJI) East Greenland MarginEast Greenland margin

23. Voss and Jokat (2007, GJI) East Greenland MarginEast Greenland margin

24. Voss and Jokat (2007, GJI) East Greenland MarginEast Greenland margin

25. Tsikalas et al. (2008, Tectonophys.) Voring and Lofoten Margin Voring and Lofoten margin

26. Tsikalas et al. (2008, Tectonophys.) Voring and Lofoten Margin Voring and Lofoten margin

27. Models of Continental Margins and Basins Press et al. (1995, Understanding Earth 4 th ed.)

28. Subduction Zone

29. Average Cross Section through the Central Andes

30. The End

31. Contrucci et al. (2004, GJI) West African Coast

32. Evidence for Continental Drift: Fossil Assemblages

33. Southern African Continental margin Parsiegla et al. ( 2007, S. African Jour. of Geo.)

34. Ziegler, Dèzes & Schumacher, University of Basel, Switzerland Moho Depth of Europe 10 20 30 40 50 60 km

35. Southern African Continental margin Parsiegla et al. ( 2007, S. African Jour. of Geo.)