Tectonic Gallery

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The Emperor’s HeadOur modern thinking behind hotspots is that they are generated by mantle plumes. A

Hidden in the deep.Deep beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean sits…something intriguing. We’ve never

Iceland volcanoes may erupt more with global warmingWe just posted on the pulses of volcanism that r

What is a plate?Often on this page you’ll hear me talking about plate motion, plate tectonics, or pl

Scandinavian CaledonidesMountain belts are a source of all sorts of exciting and significant fossil

Oxygen and the continents: linked?First, take a deep breath. Now, look outside at the ground below y

Gondwana CratonsA Craton is an ancient piece of earth’s continental crust, one that has been stable

The Australian AlpsThese rocks are found in Australia’s Kosciuszko National Park, home to the highes

So, we know that it’s because of plate tectonics that our oceans are growing and shrinking, we

Car crash tectonics - when plates meetResearchers from Colombia and Houston have identified a &ldquo

Middle-aged Earth: Boring tectonics, boring life?It has long been known that life got started on Ear

ShiveluchShiveluch volcano is the northernmost active volcano in the Kamchatka Peninsula’s volcanic

Mapping Seismic Activity with Population:Is your country prone to an earthquake or volcanic eruption

GlossopterisThese are fossils of the plant Glossopteris, which arose in the early Permian. The fossi

The Karoo LIP: The Destroyer of GondwanaAbout 500 million years ago, a huge continent was assembled

HIDDEN MICRO-CONTINENT FOUND IN THE INDIAN OCEANBeneath the islands of Reunion and Mauritius lies a

beachstudies:12/9/15 2:40PM - 3 finals done, 3 more to go! here are my notes on geology :)

ICELANDÞingvellir National ParkÞingvellir itself is the name of two places in southern Iceland. One

Vazquez rocks just outside of L.A. - sedimentary layers titled during the faulting that built the Sa

Pierre Shale and the Cretaceous SeawayThis image shows a slice through a geologic unit found in Badl

Mapping Seismic Activity: Vulnerable vs. Non-Vulnerable RegionsThe study of plate tectonics offers a

The Great Glen Fault It is difficult to look at Scotland from above without noticing a major geologi

fuunsaiki:ri-science:In 1912 AlfredWegener proposed a controversial theory about how the Earth’s lan

A plate is not exactly like a plateGeologists describe the motion of continents and oceans around th

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