Mesozoic Subduction
Description:Illustrates the geological processes commonly found at subduction zones. The Basement rocks of much of California were formed in this way. ... more.
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Pangea
*NEW PANGEA PUZZLE ADDED*
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Himalayan Collision
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Seafloor Spreading (cross section)
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South Atlantic Spreading
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World Tectonics Map Exercise Download |
Seafloor Spreading and Magnetic Reversals
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Tuzo's Puzzle
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2 - Regional Plate Tectonic and Geologic Histories
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Plate History of Western North America and California |
Pacific Hemisphere Plate, 80Ma to Present
Description:Pacific Plate Tectonic History, 80 Ma to Present (hot spot reference frame). Overview of plate evolution in the Pacific hemisphere relative to a fixed hot spot reference frame, from 80 million years ago to present day.... more.
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N.E. Pacific and W. North America Plate History, 38 Ma to Present.
Description:Plate Tectonic History of the N.E. Pacific and W. North America, 38 Ma to Present (stable North America held fixed). Movie illustrates the western North American plate boundary evolution from 38 million years ago to present day. ... more.
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Plate Tectonic History of Southern California, 20 Ma to Present (stable North America held fixed)
Description:Southern California plate tectonic history from 20 million years ago to present day. Features San Andreas falut system evolution, rotation of the Transverse Ranges and capture of Baja California by the Pacific Plate. ... more. New High Quality version added!
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Southern California, 20 Ma to Present
Description:Plate Tectonic History of Southern California, 20 Ma to Present (stable North America held fixed). Southern California plate tectonic history from 20 million years ago to present day. Features San Andreas falut system evolution, rotation of the Transverse Ranges and capture of Baja California by the Pacific Plate. ... more.
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Southern California Paleomagnetic Vectors
Description:Southern California plate tectonic history from 20 million years ago to present day. Features San Andreas fault system evolution and rotation of the Transverse Ranges with Paleomagnetic vectors ... more.
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Southern California, Origin and Dispersal of the Poway Conglomerate
Description:This illustrates a likely three step scenario for the dispersal of these distinctive rocks. The present day outcrop patterns are strong geological support for the Transverse Ranges rotation. ... more.
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Southern California Puzzle
Description:Printable cut-out sheets for constructing puzzle of Southern California tectonic evolution over the past 20 Million years ... more.
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3 - Geologic History of the Transverse Ranges Region |
Plio-Pleistocene Oblique Shortening against the San Andreas fault
Description:In the later stages of rotation, readjustment of the plate boundary resulted in north-south shortening of the Transverse Ranges ... more.
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Miocene: Rifting and rotation, volcanism, crustal upwelling and deposition in marine basins
Description:Rotation of the Transverse Ranges and eruption of the Conejo Volcanics during Miocene time ... more.
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4 - Origin of Santa Barbara Oil |
Santa Barbara Channel Oil: Structural Evolution
Description:Development of folds and faults that trap oil ... more.
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Santa Barbara Channel Oil: Migration of oil into anticlines
Description:Movement of oil up into structural traps ... more.
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Santa Barbara Channel Oil: Oil seeps on ocean floor
Description:Where faults reach the surface, gas, oil, and tar seep out into the water or onto the land. ... more.
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Bay Area Sea Level: SF Bay formation
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Wavecut Terraces
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Summer Waves
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Winter Waves
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Deglaciation of North America
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Black Sea Flood
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6 - Craters of the Moon National Monument & Surrounds
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Formation of Big Southern Butte, eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho
Description:Describes the formation of Big Southern Butte. Big Southern Butte is a 300,000 year old complex of two rhyolite domes and older basalt flows that rises 2500 hundred feet above the Snake River Plain. The domes formed when rhyolite magma ponded beneath the existing Snake River Plain basalts, pushing them up. ... more.
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Tree Molds at Craters of the Moon National Monument
Volcanic tree molds form when hot, fluid lava surrounds a tree and the tree either decays or burns away after the lava cools and hardens. Since a'a lava is very blocky, the more fluid type of lava, pahoehoe lava, generally forms the best tree molds. ...more
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Dike Emplacement at Craters of the Moon National Monument
The Craters of the Moon lava field spreads across 618 square miles and is the largest young basaltic lava field in the lower 48 states. The area contains more than 25 volcanic cones including outstanding examples of spatter cones. ...more
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North Crater Rafted Blocks at Craters of the Moon National Monument
North Crater cinder cone has of the more unique histories of the more than 25 cinder cones of the Craters of the Moon Lava Field. Five lava flows erupted from or near its base. Three of those flows tore apart North Crater and carried pieces of the cone ...more
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7 - Pore Fluids and Plate Tectonics |
Natural Attenuation of a Trichloroethylene Plume in a Basalt Aquifer
This simulation depicts the natural attenuation of a contaminant plume in a basalt aquifer. The broad, volcanic Snake River Plain in the western U.S. possesses one of the largest most productive aquifers in the country ...more
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Microbial Activity In Sediments At An Active Margin; Control By Fluid Flux
Description:This simulation is a depiction of a convergent margin showing the subduction of one tectonic plate beneath another, the associated scraping of the accretionary prism, the forearc basin, and distant volcanic activity. ...more.
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