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Today Hot Spots Past Plate Motions Review TEST 1 LAB: Describing Minerals Wednesday TEST 1 Chemistry of Minerals READ Chapter 5 Next Monday Rock Forming Minerals LAB Identifying Minerals. Hot Spots. Global Distribution of Active Volcanoes.
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Today • Hot Spots • Past Plate Motions • Review TEST 1 • LAB: Describing Minerals • Wednesday • TEST 1 • Chemistry of Minerals • READ Chapter 5 • Next Monday • Rock Forming Minerals • LAB Identifying Minerals
Global Distribution of Active Volcanoes Source: http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/location.cfm
04_23a.jpg animation
Dating the Sea Floor (Fig. 4.11) animation
Magnetic Field Strength Portland Source: http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/docs/gump/portland/portland.html
Cause of Reversals? Fig 3.27 http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~glatz/geodynamo.html
Fig 3.28 animation
Dating the Sea Floor (Fig. 4.11) animation
04_33.jpg Animation of Continental Drift
Super Continent Cycle? http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/platetec/plhist94.htm#750my http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~gurnis/Movies/Science_Captions/aggdisp.html
3-D view: http://spike.geophys.washington.edu/SEIS/EQ_Special/WEBDIR_01022818543p/hypos.html
What happens during subduction zone earthquake? Locking and Bulging GPS: ½ in/year subsidence uplift Rebound
Coastal evidence of subduction zone earthquakes And deposition by tsunami
Last Subduction Zone Earthquakes • January 26th 1700 • Coast Line from Vancouver Island to Northern California subsided approx. 6ft. • M9! (100 times Nisqually earthquake)
How frequent? One every 300-800 years. Last one 300 y. a.
TEST 1 • Chapters 2, 3, 4, prelude, interlude A & E