Plate Tectonics
Podcasts
1. Introduction
Lesson A: Pangea Puzzle Pieces (PDF)
Lesson B: Continental Drift (PDF)
2. Development of the Theory
3a.
Subduction Zones, part 1
Animation (Tanya Atwater)
3b. Subduction Zones, part 2
4. Collision Zones
Animation: Himalayas (Tanya Atwater)
5. Divergent Plate Boundaries
Seafloor age (USGS; JPEG)
Legend for seafloor-age map (USGS; JPEG)
6. Transform Plate Boundaries
Discovering Plate Boundaries (Dale Sawyer, Rice University)
Sedlock's guide to Discovering Plate Boundaries (PDF)
7.
Hotspots; Driving Forces
Animation of "unconvectional" mantle motions (Shijie Zhong, MIT)
Resources
Resource links for Plate Tectonics (NEST)
Multi-day June 2010 workshop "Plate tectonics w/focus on transform faults"
Multi-day June 2004
workshop (PS3) "Plate tectonics"— Resource links
