Ridges and Transforms

The Plate Tectonics Model

Sea-Floor Spreading

1. How we know plate tectonics happens

Ophiolites: Oceanic Crust

Anatomy of a Mid-Ocean Ridge

FAMOUS: Close-Up of

the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Magnetic Stripes in

the FAMOUS

Area

Paradox of Transforms

A Rotation Pole

Transtensional Plate Boundary

Intracontinental Rifting

Continental Stretching

Continental Separation

The Newark Basin

Transpressional Plate Boundary

Hot Spots: Hawaii

Pacific Hot Spot

Tracks

Hawaii-Emperor Seamounts