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Plate Tectonic Processes
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Sea Floor Spreading EvidenceFrederick Vine
and Drummond Matthews (1963)
Sea floor stripes record Earth’s magnetic polarity
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Age of Ocean FloorLate 1960s deep-sea drilling.Radiometric dating of ocean rocks.Symmetric pattern of age distribution
about mid-ocean ridges.Oldest ocean floor only 180 million
years old.
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Age of Ocean Floor
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Earthquakes As Evidence
Most large earthquakes occur at subduction zones.
Earthquake activity mirrors tectonic plate boundaries.
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Global Distribution of Earthquakes
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Types of Plate Boundaries
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Examples of Plate Boundaries
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Transform Boundary Features
Offsets oriented perpendicular to mid-ocean ridge◦Segments of plates slide past each other
Offsets permit mid-ocean ridge to move apart at different rates
Shallow but strong earthquakes
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Transform Boundary FeaturesOceanic
Transform Fault – ocean floor only
All transform faults occur between mid-ocean ridge segments.
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Applications of Plate Tectonics
Mantle Plumes and Hotspots◦Intraplate featuresVolcanic islands within a plateIsland chains
Record ancient plate motions◦Nematath – hotspot track
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Global Hotspot Locations
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Hawaiian Island – Emperor Seamount Nematath
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Plate Tectonics and Intraplate FeaturesSeamounts
◦Rounded topsTablemounts or guyots
◦Flattened topsSubsidence of flanks of mid-ocean ridgeWave erosion may flatten seamount
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Detecting Plate Motion with Satellites
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Paleogeography
Paleogeography – study of ancient continents
Continental accretion◦Continental material added to edges of continents through plate motion
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Paleogeographic Reconstructions
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Future Predictions
Future positions of continents and oceans◦Assume same direction and rate of plate motions as now.
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World Map 50 million Years in Future
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Wilson cycle
John Tuzo WilsonLife cycle of ocean basins
◦Formation◦Growth◦Destruction
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Wilson cycle