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Welcome to our download page. The animation clips and other geo-educational items, described below, are free works. You can download, copy, distribute, and modify them as desired. Acknowledgement of authorship and reference to this website is appreciated.

Note that many of the materials were constructed in the early 2000s when computer files were much more restricted in size and delivery rate. Hopefully some are still useful.

If you have any comments or suggestions, please email Tanya at atwater@geol.ucsb.edu.

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Table of Contents- (click the section header to skip down to a specific section)
This website's organization and many of the offered products were updated in Spring 2022.
(All movies are now offered in mp4 format.)


1 - Global Tectonics
World Physiographic Map and Spinning Globe. physical map and animation
Pangean Breakup and Continental Drift, flat Earth. animations
      Plain Continents. animation
      Continents with collisional deformations in Eurasia. animation
Pangean Breakup and Continental Drift, flat earth. physical puzzle
Ocean-Continent Subduction* (Cretaceous California), block diagram. animation
Continental Collision (India-Asia collision), cut globe. animation
Spreading of the South Atlantic and the Driving Mechanism. animation and text
Seafloor Spreading Geometry, near view. series of six animations
      Seafloor Spreading. animation
      Seafloor Spreading with Spreading Arrows. animation
      Seafloor Spreading with Transform Fault Arrows. animation
      Magnetic Field Polarity Reversals, Explanation. animation
      Seafloor Spreading and Marine Magnetic Stripes with Reversal Timescale. animation
      Seafloor Spreading and Marine Magnetic Stripes. animation
World Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Plate Tectonics, map stack. xeroxable exercise
Seafloor Spreading, Oceanic Transform Faults, and Fracture Zones. demonstration models
2 - Ice Age Earth and Effects of Sea Level Changes
Deglaciation of North America, 21 to 6 thousand years ago. animation
Post-glacial Flooding of San Francisco Bay. animation
Post-glacial Flooding of the Chesapeake Bay. animation
Post-glacial Flooding of the Persian Gulf. animation
Catastrophic Flooding of the Black Sea (Noah's Flood?). animation and images
Coastal Erosion and the Formation of Marine Terraces, cross sections. animations
      Erosion of Beach Cliffs by Waves. animations
      Formation and Uplift of a set of Marine Terraces. animation
Isolation and Evolution of Pygmy Mammoths, S.B. Channel Islands. narrated movie
Woolly Mammoth Walking: traveling and treadmill. animations
3 - Regional Plate Tectonics, global views
South Atlantic: Breakup and Seafloor Spreading. animation
North-central Atlantic: Breakup and Seafloor Spreading. animation
North Pacific Ocean: Drift and Seafloor Spreading.* animation
Southeast Pacific Ocean: Drift and Seafloor Spreading. draft animation
4 - N.E. Pacific and W. North America: Plate Tectonic and Geologic Histories
Pacific Hemisphere Plate Tectonics, 80 Ma to Present. animation
N.E. Pacific and W. North America Plate History, 38 Ma to Present. animation
N.E. Pacific and W. North America Plate Motion Projection, Present to 10 my in the Future. animation
Ocean-Continent Subduction (Cretaceous California), block diagram. animation
California and Baja California Plate Tectonic History, 20 Ma to Present.* animation
5 - So. California: Tectonic History of the Transverse Ranges
California and Baja California Plate Tectonic History, 20 Ma to Present.* animation
Southern California Hands-on Plate Model. puzzle packet including text and images for model construction
Southern California History with Transverse Ranges Rotation, 20 Ma to Present. animation and images
Southern California History with Rotating Paleomagnetic Vectors, 20 Ma to Present. animation and data image
Southern California with Origin and Dispersal of the Poway Conglomerate, 150 Ma to Present. animation and images
Southern California History of San Andreas Earthquake Breaks. animation and maps
6 - Santa Monica Mountains Geological History and Santa Barbara Channel Oil
Block Model Depictions of the Geology of the Santa Monica Mountains.
      Oligocene Sespe Fm. Sedimentation on a River Flood plain. animation
      Miocene Rifting and Rotation, Volcanism, and Monterey Fm. Sedimentation. animation
      Plio-Pleistocene Shortening and Uplift. animation
Santa Barbara Channel Oil, S.B. Channel Islands. animated cross sections.
      Plio-Pleistocene Structural Evolution. animation
      Migration of oil into anticlines. animation
      Oil Seeps along Faults. animation
 
 
 
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1 - Global Tectonics

Physiographic Map and Spinning
  Globe, map & animations

Pangean Breakup and Continental
  Drift, animations

Pangean Breakup and Continental
  Drift, physical puzzle

Ocean-Continent Subduction,
   animation

Continental Collision (India-Asia
  Collision), animation

Sea Floor Spreading and the Driving
   Mechanism, animations & text

Seafloor Spreading Geometry and Formation of Magnetic Anomalies,   set of six animations

World Earthquakes, Volcanoes,
  and Plate Tectonics,
  map stack exercise

Seafloor Spreading, Transform
  Faults and Fracture Zones,
  demonstration models

 
 

2 - Ice Age Earth and Effects of Sea Level Changes

Deglaciation of North America,
  animation

Ice Ages and Sea Level
  Fluctuations, animation

Post-glacial Flooding of San
  Francisco Bay, animation

Post-glacial Flooding of
  Chesapeake Bay, animation

Post-glacial Flooding of the
  Persian Gulf, animation

Catastrophic Flooding of the
  Black Sea, animation

Coastal Erosion and the Formation
  of Marine Terraces, animations

Pygmy Mammoths of the S. B.
  Channel Islands*, narrated movie

Woolly Mammoth Walking,
   Traveling and Treadmill,
   animations

 
 

3 - Regional Plate Tectonics Histories, Global Views

South Atlantic: Breakup, Drift, and
  Seafloor Spreading, animation

North-Central Atlantic: Breakup, Drift,
  and Seafloor Spreading, animation

North Pacific: Drift and Seafloor
  Spreading, animation

South Pacific: Drift and Seafloor
  Spreading, draft animation

 

 
 
 

4 - Northeast Pacific and Western North America: Plate Tectonic Histories

North Pacific Plate Tectonic
  History, 80-0 Ma, animation

N. E. Pacific and W. No. America
  Plate Tectonic History,
   38-0 Ma, animation

N. E. Pacific and W. No. America
  Plate motions Projection,
  10 m.y. into the future animation

Mesozoic: Ocean-Continent
  Subduction, animation

California and Baja Ca.
  Plate Tectonic History,
   20-0 Ma, animation

 

 
 
 

5 - Tectonic and Geologic History of Southern California and Northern Baja California

California and Baja Ca.
  Plate Tectonic History,
   20-0 Ma, animation

So. California Plate
  Tectonic History*,
  hands-on model and texts

Southern California: Rotation of
  Transverse Ranges, 20-0 Ma, animation

 

So. California: Rotation of Paleo-
  magnetic Vectors, animation

So. California: Poway Conglomerate
  Formation and Dispersal, animation

 

So. California: History of San Andreas
  Earthquake Breaks, animation

 

 
 
 

6 - Santa Monica Mts Geological History and Santa Barbara Channel Oil

Santa Monica Mts
  Oligocene Sespe Fm: Sedimentation
  on a River Floodplain,
  block diag. animation

Santa Monica Mts
  Miocene: Rifting and rotation,
  Volcanism, and Monterey Fm.
  Sedimentation,
  block diag. animation

Santa Monica Mts
  Plio-Pleistocene: Oblique
  Shortening,
  block diag. animation

Plio-Pleiestocene Shortening,
  Structural Evolution, animation

Migration of oil into anticlines,
   animation

Oil seeps along faults,
   animation

 
 
 
 

Last modified: Spring 2022