Thursday, August 25, 2011

More plate tectonics

Pretty awesome History Channel video about the formation of Hawaii, which shows visually what I was explaining about hotspot island formation and plate tectonics. Check it out!



And here's a better example of folding than we saw today in class (from the USGS photo library):

And another on a larger scale:
try to follow the light and dark layers from the mountains on the left side of the image to the right side.

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