Plate Motions

 

Location Movies Source
Pacific-North America Tanya Atwater,  UCSB
California and Great Basin McQuarrie and Wernicke, 2005
North Pacific Tanya Atwater,  UCSB
Pacific Northwest  
North Central Atlantic Tanya Atwater,  UCSB
South Atlantic Tanya Atwater,  UCSB
Reconstructions since 180 Ma http://www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/plates/recons.htm#movies 
Antarctic key to Gondwanaland http://www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/plates/recons.htm#movies
Opening Indian Ocean http://www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/plates/recons.htm#movies
Plates Atlas http://www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/plates/recons.htm#movies

Working as pair, you will study the animation and at the end of the period you will present it to the section, explaining the importance of what it shows.