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Introduction to Global Plate Tectonics

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Part IIIC. Global Tectonics Evolution

The Ocean Basinsfeaturing

The Philipine Plate; The Wharton Basin;

& The Indian Ocean

The Philipine Plate

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Papua

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PhilipineIslands

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continued

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Proto-South China Sea

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Present Day Tectonics

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New Guinea

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GBorneo

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Sundaland

S. China Sea

Sulu Sea

Caroline Sea Plate

Pacific Plate

Indo Australian Plate

Celebes Sea

Celebes Islands Banda

Sea

Malay Pen.

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BorneoE

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S. China Sea Philipine

Islands

PhilipinePlate

Pacific Plate

Caroline Sea Plate

New Guinea

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Text was extracted from Hall, R. 1998. The plate tectonics of Cenozoic SEAsia and the distribution of land and sea. SE Asia Research Group, Dept. ofGeology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey. The indexmap was modifed from Figure 1. The set of plate reconstruction globes wereextracted from the report appendices.

Philipine Plate PaleotectonicReference

The Wharton Basin

Jurassic Period

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Cretaceous Period

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Present Day

Eocene Epoch

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Drawings and text extracted from the Shipboard Scientific Party,Introduction and Explanatory Notes. Deep Sea Drilling Project.

Wharton Basin Reference

The Indian Ocean

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C

Cretaceous Period to Paleocene Epoch

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Paleocene to Early Eocene Epoch A

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The 3D Map was obtained from an unidentified source posted on theinternet. Music by Mike The Audio Guy, and Audionautix used inaccordance with terms and conditions provided under the CreativeCommons Licensing Agreements.

Text was extracted from Wiens and others, 1985. A diffuse plate boundarymodel for Indian Ocean tectonics. Geophysical Research Letters, AmericanGeophysical Union, Vol 12, No. 7, pg 429-432.

Duncan, RA. 1990. The volcanic record of the Reunion Hot Spot. Proceedingsof the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, Vol. 115.

Ocean basin floor map was extracted from the National Geographic Society’sWorld Map. 1981.

Indian Ocean Basin References

Other video slide shows available on Slideshare.com:

Part I. Plate Tectonics Theory

Presents tectonic theory using a set of models redrawn from NationalGeographic Society maps, and from USGS plate tectonic models, andscientific journal publications.

Part II. Paleogeography.

Presents global tectonic history through the use of paleogeographic modelsproduced by C. Scotese, as part of the USGS funded PaleoMap Project.

Part III. Global Tectonic Evolution. The Oceans.

Presents the ocean basins in a set of maps produced by the National GeographicSociety, and other scientific journal publications. The Oceans is a three partseries.

Part IV. Global Tectonic Evolution. The Continents.

Presents continental evolution through a set of maps produced by scientificjournal publications. The Continents is a five part series.

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