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LITHOSPHERE, TECTONICS, PROCESSES CHAPTERS -----> Geomorphology Tectonics Weathering

Tectonics


I.   BASIC CONCEPTS AND TERMINOLOGY

A. Plasticity and Isostacy

B. Continental Drift

  1. Alfred Wegener
  2. Pangaea (animation)
C. Plate Tectonics ("Massive Crustal Rearrangement")
  1. adiabatic heating/cooling revisited (video)
  2. different plate boundaries

II.   DIASTROPHISM

A. Folding

  1. animation of the process
  2. Appalachian Mountains (closer) (aerial)
  3. anticline vs. syncline (example #2) (both side-by-side)
B. Faulting
  1. the process (video explanation)
  2. earthquakes (real-time: world) (AZ quake history)
  3. upthrown / downthrown (Alaska 1) (2) (3) (4) and strike-slip
  4. horst vs. graben
  5. block fault mountains (video) (photo)
  6. rift valleys (Africa)
  7. liquefaction / #1 / #2 / #3 (movie demo) (Japan 2011) (New Zealand 2011)
  8. tsunamis ... visible in pool

III.   VULCANISM

A. Lava vs. Magma; (lava flow video)

B. Volcanic Peaks
  1. shape (Hood, Adams, Baker, Shasta,...)
    * Cascade volcanoes map
  2. types
  3. super volcanoes
  4. active vs. dormant vs. extinct ("unlikely to erupt again"?)
  5. Pacific Rim or "Ring of Fire"
C. Volcanic Landforms
  1. caldera: process / Crater Lake / Alaska example
  2. volcanic necks: Ship Rock , Devil's Tower, and Agathla Peak, AZ
  3. volcanic dike: close up / another dike example / drone video
  4. batholith (Sierra Nevada) vs. laccolith: LaSal Mtns / Abajo Mtns / Ute Mtn / Navajo Mountain
  5. Olympus Mons ... comparison


LITHOSPHERE, TECTONICS, PROCESSES CHAPTERS -----> Geomorphology Tectonics Weathering