Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Pacific Tibet
Northwest
South Japan
America
03.00.a1
Observe features near the Pacific Northwest Observe features near South America
Low-relief
Ridge Cascade Oceanic interior
volcanoes trench
Andes
Step
in seafloor
Fracture
zones
Continental
shelf
03.00.a1a
03.00.a1b
Ridge
Smooth, deep
seafloor
Tibetan Plateau
Fracture Himalaya
zones
Zigzags
Continental in ridge
Lowlands
shelves on 03.00.a1d
in India
both sides of
ocean
03.00.a1c
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Observe features near Japan Observe features near the Arabian Peninsula
Persian
Curving Gulf
ridges
Afar region
03.00.a1e
Oceanic
Ridge 03.00.a1f
2
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Observe how
magnetic Time 1: Rates and History of Plate Motion
reversals are normal
recorded by polarity
a mid-ocean
ridge during Time 2:
seafloor reversed
spreading polarity;
normal stripe
moved away
from ridge
Build series
of magnetic
stripes over
time
03.09.c1
3
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Sediment
Cover
Seafloor
Age
03.04.a1
Absolute motion is difficult to detect with older technologies. Three Types of Relative Plate Motions
Observe the behavior at the edges of plates
Move apart: Move toward each other:
divergent boundary convergent boundary
Move horizontally
03.04.c1
past one another:
transform boundary
03.03.b
Melting Melting
4
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Seismic
Tomography
Mariana Islands Marianas Trench volcanic mountain chain, folded mountains, and
deep earthquakes
Andes
Mountains
Peru-Chile Trench
South
American
Plate
Melting Melting
subduction
Eurasian
Plate
5
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Triple Junctions
03.07.b1
• Slab-pull
• Convection
03.08.c1
In what directions are the main plates moving, and how
are adjacent plates moving relative to each other?
Rates of Relative Plate Movement Test of Plate Motion - Linear Island Chains
and Seamounts
Plates move cm/year Some move faster than others
Lines of islands and
seamounts (e.g., Hawaii)
03.08.b1
Which plate boundaries have the fastest rates?
03.10.c