Table of Contents
Plate Tectonics
Margin Types (I)
Margin Types (II)
Pangaea
Similarity of Fossil Forms
Break Up of Pangaea
Pangaea in the Cretaceous
Pangaea in the Early Cenozoic
Today
Pangaea the Supercontinent
Plate Tectonics
Divergent Margins
Spreading Centers
Initiation of Rifting
Formation of a New Ocean
Magnetic Strategraphy
Variation in the Ages of Oceans
What Drives the Plates?
Rates of Sea Floor Spreading
The Atlantic Ocean Basin
The Ophiolite Package
Pillow Lavas
Topography of the Sea Floor
Convergent Margins
Convergent Margin- Island Arc
Convergent Margin- Trench
Convergent Margin- Suture
Himalayan Suture Zone
Transform Margin
Rifted Continental Margin (I)
Rifted Continental Margin (II)
Hot Spots
Accretion of a Microplate
Assemblying California
Large Convection Cells
Slab Push and Slab Pull
Hot Plume Model
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Author: John C Butler
Email: jbutler@uh.edu
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