Segmented Fore Arc Deformation Along the
... Purpose and Methods The goal of this study is to constrain the lateral extent and elevations of uplifted Quaternary marine and fluvial terraces along the length of the Nicoya seismic gap. At present, uplifted marine terraces and paleo-shorelines have been mapped along three segments of the Nicoya Pe ...
... Purpose and Methods The goal of this study is to constrain the lateral extent and elevations of uplifted Quaternary marine and fluvial terraces along the length of the Nicoya seismic gap. At present, uplifted marine terraces and paleo-shorelines have been mapped along three segments of the Nicoya Pe ...
Plate Tectonics - cloudfront.net
... • Wegener thought that mountains formed as continents ran into each other. This got around the problem of the leading hypothesis of the day, which was that Earth had been a molten ball that bulked up in spots as it cooled (the problem with this idea was that the mountains should all be the same age ...
... • Wegener thought that mountains formed as continents ran into each other. This got around the problem of the leading hypothesis of the day, which was that Earth had been a molten ball that bulked up in spots as it cooled (the problem with this idea was that the mountains should all be the same age ...
Exploring Plate Tectonics
... the world. Each color band represents a -million-year time interval. To determine the width of new lithosphere created in the North Atlantic Ocean during each -million-year time interval: Turn on the Latitude/Longitude and Plate Boundaries themes. Click the QuickLoad button , select the Atlantic ...
... the world. Each color band represents a -million-year time interval. To determine the width of new lithosphere created in the North Atlantic Ocean during each -million-year time interval: Turn on the Latitude/Longitude and Plate Boundaries themes. Click the QuickLoad button , select the Atlantic ...
Organization of the tectonic plates in the last 200Myr
... plates are reconstructed using ocean-floor magnetic lineations. A recent estimation of the errors involved in the identification of the timing associated to each isochrone finds no more than few million years (Iaffaldano et al., 2012). The uncertainty associated with the physical location of plate boun ...
... plates are reconstructed using ocean-floor magnetic lineations. A recent estimation of the errors involved in the identification of the timing associated to each isochrone finds no more than few million years (Iaffaldano et al., 2012). The uncertainty associated with the physical location of plate boun ...
Modified Benchmark Teacher Domain
... push (the pushing forces exerted by elevated and relatively hot rock at midocean ridges) is minor as is the traction along the bottoms of plates due to convection in the mantle. ...
... push (the pushing forces exerted by elevated and relatively hot rock at midocean ridges) is minor as is the traction along the bottoms of plates due to convection in the mantle. ...
Sub-slab mantle flow parallel to the Caribbean plate boundaries
... Hilst, 1990). The same is observed in the segment from south of Mexico to the Nicoya Peninsula near the south-westward continuation of the Hess Escarpment. In other segments of the Middle American Trench, tomographic images do not indicate the downgoing Cocos Plate (i.e., beneath northern Mexico, Is ...
... Hilst, 1990). The same is observed in the segment from south of Mexico to the Nicoya Peninsula near the south-westward continuation of the Hess Escarpment. In other segments of the Middle American Trench, tomographic images do not indicate the downgoing Cocos Plate (i.e., beneath northern Mexico, Is ...
Chapter 11 Section 2
... form along convergent plate boundaries. • Some of the largest volcanic mountains are part of the midocean ridges along divergent plate boundaries. • Other large volcanic mountains form on the ocean floor at hot spots, which are volcanically active areas that seem to correspond to places where hot ma ...
... form along convergent plate boundaries. • Some of the largest volcanic mountains are part of the midocean ridges along divergent plate boundaries. • Other large volcanic mountains form on the ocean floor at hot spots, which are volcanically active areas that seem to correspond to places where hot ma ...
Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes
... and Maurice Ewing, leading scientists studying geological processes in ocean basins. Like many young men of his generation, Tuzo Wilson’s career was interrupted by World War II, during which he served overseas as an engineer in the Canadian Army. After the war, Tuzo Wilson returned to Canada to beco ...
... and Maurice Ewing, leading scientists studying geological processes in ocean basins. Like many young men of his generation, Tuzo Wilson’s career was interrupted by World War II, during which he served overseas as an engineer in the Canadian Army. After the war, Tuzo Wilson returned to Canada to beco ...
Orogenic Belts and Orogenic Sediment Provenance
... G) Eastward Subduction of Continental beneath Oceanic Lithosphere. This setting represents the final stage of eastward intraoceanic subduction, when a continental margin arrives at an intraoceanic trench. Virtually intact slabs of dense oceanic upper-plate lithosphere can thus be emplaced onto buoya ...
... G) Eastward Subduction of Continental beneath Oceanic Lithosphere. This setting represents the final stage of eastward intraoceanic subduction, when a continental margin arrives at an intraoceanic trench. Virtually intact slabs of dense oceanic upper-plate lithosphere can thus be emplaced onto buoya ...
Evidence for magma entrapment below oceanic crust
... lithosphere within the Western Somali Basin (offshore eastern Africa) where spreading ceased at ca. 120 Ma. The location of the failed spreading axis is inferred from both seismic data and gravity data. Several groups of strong reflections are imaged to depths of >30 km below the top of the oceanic ...
... lithosphere within the Western Somali Basin (offshore eastern Africa) where spreading ceased at ca. 120 Ma. The location of the failed spreading axis is inferred from both seismic data and gravity data. Several groups of strong reflections are imaged to depths of >30 km below the top of the oceanic ...
Seismic Anisotropy: Tracing Plate Dynamics in the Mantle
... Rayleigh (hybrid shear and compression) motion at long periods (⬎70 s) can be strong evidence for lateral gradients in anisotropy at 100 to 300 km depth (67–69). Such quasi-Love studies have illuminated localized regions of mantle strain near several plate boundaries and other geodynamic features. T ...
... Rayleigh (hybrid shear and compression) motion at long periods (⬎70 s) can be strong evidence for lateral gradients in anisotropy at 100 to 300 km depth (67–69). Such quasi-Love studies have illuminated localized regions of mantle strain near several plate boundaries and other geodynamic features. T ...
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... that the structure can be quite variable and complex. For example, we have been able to recognize 쐍 where magma, which is molten rock material beneath Earth’s surface, is generated in the asthenosphere 쐍 the existence of slabs of lithosphere that have apparently sunk deep into the mantle 쐍 the extre ...
... that the structure can be quite variable and complex. For example, we have been able to recognize 쐍 where magma, which is molten rock material beneath Earth’s surface, is generated in the asthenosphere 쐍 the existence of slabs of lithosphere that have apparently sunk deep into the mantle 쐍 the extre ...
Mantle Convection and Plate Tectonics: A Primary Cause
... Earth cooled from an initially molten state and that the deep interior remained molten as a relic of its formation. Edmond Halley has also contributed to the flow of liquids in a network of subsurface channels. Both Isaac Newton and Laplace interpreted the equatorial bulge to be consequence of a flu ...
... Earth cooled from an initially molten state and that the deep interior remained molten as a relic of its formation. Edmond Halley has also contributed to the flow of liquids in a network of subsurface channels. Both Isaac Newton and Laplace interpreted the equatorial bulge to be consequence of a flu ...
1 Accretion of terranes and growth of continental crust along the
... continental rifting to be latest Precambrian (543 Ma) (summary in Thomas, 1991). Repeated episodes of Appalachian orogenesis have obliterated any possible off-shelf continental slope-and-rise deposits; however, a robust Cambrian-Ordovician passivemargin carbonate-shelf facies documents the early pos ...
... continental rifting to be latest Precambrian (543 Ma) (summary in Thomas, 1991). Repeated episodes of Appalachian orogenesis have obliterated any possible off-shelf continental slope-and-rise deposits; however, a robust Cambrian-Ordovician passivemargin carbonate-shelf facies documents the early pos ...
Linking collisional and accretionary orogens during Rodinia
... margin successions around Laurentia, Baltica and Siberia was not completed until the late Neoproterozoic to early Paleozoic (ca. 570–530 Ma), which corresponds with the termination of convergent plate interactions that gave rise to Gondwana and the consequent relocation of subduction zones to the pe ...
... margin successions around Laurentia, Baltica and Siberia was not completed until the late Neoproterozoic to early Paleozoic (ca. 570–530 Ma), which corresponds with the termination of convergent plate interactions that gave rise to Gondwana and the consequent relocation of subduction zones to the pe ...
ODP Greatest Hits
... Scientific investigation does not stop with the cores. Once they have been extracted from the drill hole, this empty column itself becomes a laboratory. In a process called downhole logging, scientists lower instruments into the drill hole to record the physical and chemical properties of the surrou ...
... Scientific investigation does not stop with the cores. Once they have been extracted from the drill hole, this empty column itself becomes a laboratory. In a process called downhole logging, scientists lower instruments into the drill hole to record the physical and chemical properties of the surrou ...
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Crustal growth at active continental margins: Numerical
... intrusive plutons. We could identify the following three geodynamic regimes of crustal growth: (i) stable arcs, (ii) compressional arcs with plume development, and (iii) extensional arcs. Crustal growth in a stable subduction setting results in the emplacement of flattened intrusions in the lower cru ...
... intrusive plutons. We could identify the following three geodynamic regimes of crustal growth: (i) stable arcs, (ii) compressional arcs with plume development, and (iii) extensional arcs. Crustal growth in a stable subduction setting results in the emplacement of flattened intrusions in the lower cru ...
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... have been significantly thicker beneath what is oceanic ridge spreading at a half rate of 2-3 that these are generally sites of subduction initianow the frontal arc. cm/yr. These rates, patterns of faulting in the tion has been made by Casey and Dewey (1984) These parameters indicate that between 1, ...
... have been significantly thicker beneath what is oceanic ridge spreading at a half rate of 2-3 that these are generally sites of subduction initianow the frontal arc. cm/yr. These rates, patterns of faulting in the tion has been made by Casey and Dewey (1984) These parameters indicate that between 1, ...
Chapter 4: Marine sediments
... Pelagic sediments cover about ¾ Distribution controlled by Proximity to sources of lithogenous sediments Productivity of microscopic marine ...
... Pelagic sediments cover about ¾ Distribution controlled by Proximity to sources of lithogenous sediments Productivity of microscopic marine ...
20170228 press-release
... In this research, the scientists took a new approach by considering whether the chemical composition of mantle rocks affects the churning convective motion. Some rocks deform and flow more readily than others, behaving like water as opposed to high viscosity liquids such as honey. For example, po ...
... In this research, the scientists took a new approach by considering whether the chemical composition of mantle rocks affects the churning convective motion. Some rocks deform and flow more readily than others, behaving like water as opposed to high viscosity liquids such as honey. For example, po ...
Press release "New model for deep mantle conveyor belt system at
... Institute of Technology report in Nature Geophysics (online 27 Feb 2017) a new model for the existence of a deep mantle conveyor belt system that may have operated inside the Earth since its formation about 4.5 billion years ago. Most earthquakes, volcanoes, mountain building, sea-floor spreading, a ...
... Institute of Technology report in Nature Geophysics (online 27 Feb 2017) a new model for the existence of a deep mantle conveyor belt system that may have operated inside the Earth since its formation about 4.5 billion years ago. Most earthquakes, volcanoes, mountain building, sea-floor spreading, a ...
Short Answer Essay Questions
... distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes, the locations of ore deposits and mountain systems, climate and ocean circulation patterns, and the geographic distribution, evolution, and extinction of life forms. [p. 54] 18. Draw a cross-section of an ocean-continent convergent plate boundary. Show the ...
... distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes, the locations of ore deposits and mountain systems, climate and ocean circulation patterns, and the geographic distribution, evolution, and extinction of life forms. [p. 54] 18. Draw a cross-section of an ocean-continent convergent plate boundary. Show the ...
Seismological observations in Northwestern South America
... upper mantle is seismically faster than predicted from global models. In particular, for the Caribbean coastal plains there are no signs of significant anomalies in the upper mantle, evidenced by the small magnitude of the travel time delays and subdued Pn speeds (~7.97 km/s). To the southeast of suc ...
... upper mantle is seismically faster than predicted from global models. In particular, for the Caribbean coastal plains there are no signs of significant anomalies in the upper mantle, evidenced by the small magnitude of the travel time delays and subdued Pn speeds (~7.97 km/s). To the southeast of suc ...
Rupture Characteristics of the Deep Bolivian Earthquake of 9 June
... slab's thickness. Deep focus events of this size are rare; the last one occurred some 25 years ago, roughly 1000 km to the north of this event beneath Colombia (10, 11, 21). Similarities with the Bolivian event are striking. The Colombian event ruptured the westward-dipping nodal plane (dip angle of ...
... slab's thickness. Deep focus events of this size are rare; the last one occurred some 25 years ago, roughly 1000 km to the north of this event beneath Colombia (10, 11, 21). Similarities with the Bolivian event are striking. The Colombian event ruptured the westward-dipping nodal plane (dip angle of ...
Oceanic trench
The oceanic trenches are hemispheric-scale long but narrow topographic depressions of the sea floor. They are also the deepest parts of the ocean floor. Oceanic trenches are a distinctive morphological feature of convergent plate boundaries, along which lithospheric plates move towards each other at rates that vary from a few mm to over ten cm per year. A trench marks the position at which the flexed, subducting slab begins to descend beneath another lithospheric slab. Trenches are generally parallel to a volcanic island arc, and about 200 km (120 mi) from a volcanic arc. Oceanic trenches typically extend 3 to 4 km (1.9 to 2.5 mi) below the level of the surrounding oceanic floor. The greatest ocean depth to be sounded is in the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench, at a depth of 11,034 m (36,201 ft) below sea level. Oceanic lithosphere moves into trenches at a global rate of about 3 km2/yr.