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Assembly of Pangea
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Breakup of Pangea
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Historic Movement of Crustal Plates Permian: Formation of Appalachian Mountains, First Dinosaurs, Flowering Plants Triassic: Break-up of Pangea, First Mammals Jurassic: Age of Dinosaurs, Formation of Sierra Nevada Cretaceous: First Birds, Formation of Rocky Mountains, Extinction of Dinosaurs
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Early Triassic: First Mammals
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Jurassic: Age of Dinosaurs, Formation of Sierra Nevada
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Early Cretaceous: First Birds, Formation of Rocky Mountains, Extinction of Dinosaurs
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Present Day
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Mantle Convection Model
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Convection: The driving force behind tectonic movement
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Discovery of Sea-Floor Spreading
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Sea-Floor Spreading
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Convection with Subduction and Mantle Plume
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Global Rift Zones
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Rift Formation
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Sea Floor Spreading and the Mid Ocean Ridge
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Anatomy of a Mid-Ocean Ridge
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Rift Zone to Continental Margin
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How Plates Move
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The Plate Tectonics Model
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East Africa Rift Zones
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Oldoinyo East AfricanVolcano
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East African Rift Valley from Space
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East Africa Rift Zones
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Earthquakes in the East Africa Rift Zone
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Earthquake Profile: Africa
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Icelandic Rift Valley
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Rift Narrows, Iceland
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Earthquake Profile: Iceland
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Beluga Whale Trainer
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Continental U.S. Rift Zone
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Himalayas
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Himalayas from Space [hand held 35mm camera]
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Himalayas from Space [satellite image]
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Asian-Indian Crustal Plate Boundary
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Seismic Activity at the Asian- Indian Plate Boundary
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Earthquake Profile: India
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Subduction and Mountain Building
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Earthquake Profile: Japan
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