'Passive margin' presentation slideshows

Early Paleozoic Earth History

Chapter 10. Early Paleozoic Earth History. The First Geologic Map. William Smith, a canal builder, published the first geologic map on August 1, 1815. The First Geologic Map. Measuring more than eight feet high and six feet wide, Smith's hand-painted geologic map of England

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Oceanography 1 The Sea Floor

Oceanography 1 The Sea Floor. the sea floor. image source: http://www.npaci.edu/online/v6.12/hellyslides.html. The Sea Floor. Continental Margin Continental shelf Continental shelf break Continental slope Continental rise. Passive and Active Continental Margins.

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5. 07 Field Trip to Apennines, Italy

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Announcements: Final Exam Monday, Dec. 16, 11-1 this room

Announcements: Final Exam Monday, Dec. 16, 11-1 this room. TODAY: Structural Evolution of W. North America: From Proterozoic to Present Goals: (1) Appreciation of "local" geology (2) Interplay between plate tectonics and deformation

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Passive margins and their terminal collisions through Earth history

Passive margins and their terminal collisions through Earth history. Dwight Bradley U.S. Geological Survey. Conclusions about passive margins Passive margins are not known before the Neoarchean

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8/23/2011 Washington Post

Mineral, VA, earthquake illustrates seismicity of a passive-aggressive margin. Seth Stein 1 , Frank Pazzaglia 2 , Emily Wolin 1 , Anne Meltzer 2 , Alan Kafka 3 1 Northwestern University 2 Lehigh University 3 Boston College. 8/23/2011 Washington Post.

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GLOBAL GEOMORPHOLOGY: LARGE-SCALE TECTONIC STRUCTURES; OROGENESIS.

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GLOBAL GEOMORPHOLOGY: LARGE-SCALE TECTONIC STRUCTURES; OROGENESIS.

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The Neritic Zone

The Neritic Zone. By: Mallory Jayjohn, Hadley Jahnke, Christiana Carr, and Lily Davis. About the Neritic Zone. The Neritic zone is the first 200 meters of ocean water which includes the sea shore and most of the continental shelf. The Neritic zone is a subdivision of the Pelagic zone.

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New Oceanic lithosphere forms

New Oceanic lithosphere forms. At convergent plate boundaries At divergent plate boundaries At transform plate boundaries At all plate boundaries. If the Atlantic is spreading at a rate of 3 cm per year, how far will it spread in 1 million years. 300 Kilometers 3 Kilometers

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