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Assembly of Pangea. Breakup of Pangea.

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1 Assembly of Pangea

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13 Breakup of Pangea

14 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

15 Early Triassic: First Mammals

16 Jurassic: Age of Dinosaurs, Formation of Sierra Nevada

17 Early Cretaceous: First Birds, Formation of Rocky Mountains, Extinction of Dinosaurs

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19 Present Day

20 Mantle Convection Model

21 Convection: The driving force behind tectonic movement

22 Discovery of Sea-Floor Spreading

23 Sea-Floor Spreading

24 Convection with Subduction and Mantle Plume

25 Global Rift Zones

26 Rift Formation

27 Sea Floor Spreading and the Mid Ocean Ridge

28 Anatomy of a Mid-Ocean Ridge

29 Rift Zone to Continental Margin

30 How Plates Move

31 The Plate Tectonics Model

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33 East Africa Rift Zones

34 Oldoinyo East AfricanVolcano

35 East African Rift Valley from Space

36 East Africa Rift Zones

37 Earthquakes in the East Africa Rift Zone

38 Earthquake Profile: Africa

39 Icelandic Rift Valley

40 Rift Narrows, Iceland

41 Earthquake Profile: Iceland

42 Beluga Whale Trainer

43 Continental U.S. Rift Zone

44 Himalayas

45 Himalayas from Space [hand held 35mm camera]

46 Himalayas from Space [satellite image]

47 Asian-Indian Crustal Plate Boundary

48 Seismic Activity at the Asian- Indian Plate Boundary

49 Earthquake Profile: India

50 Subduction and Mountain Building

51 Earthquake Profile: Japan


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