http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-earth.html
Note: I am not sure where this came from.
Burnet, Thomas (1635? -1715)
Telluris theoria sacra.
The theory of the earth :
Containing an account of the
original of the earth, and of all the
general changes which it hath
already undergone, or is to
undergo, till the consummation of
all things. The two first books
concerning the deluge, and
concerning paradise.
London : Printed by R. Norton,
for Walter Kettilby, 1684.
PLATE
Exploring Earth, Davidson, Reed, and Davis, Prentice Hall, 2nd
Edition, Figure 1.5, p. 6.
“Plate Tectonics,” The Basic Idea:
Earth’s Dynamic Systems, Hamblin and
Christiansen, Prentice Hall
Locations of the Major Tectonic “Plates”
Note: this is the map I have often used. I like it, but can’t
find it any more. The following one is close enough.
http://www.maps.com/ref_map.aspx?nav=RM&cid=679,1037&pid=12871
A Global Map of Earthquakes Also Shows the Plate Boundaries
http://wwweprc.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/CSS/gallery1.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-131-02/CUShazard.html
The San Andreas Fault
http://tapestry.usgs.gov/featur
es/25sanandreas.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dyna
mic/San_Andreas.html
A DEVASTATING EVENT: THE SUMATRA
EARTHQUAKE OF DECEMBER 26, 2004
Note: I haven’t found this yet
COMPLEX
PLATE
BOUNDARY
ZONE IN ASIA
Northward
motion of India
deforms all of the
region
Creates many
small
microplates, and
lots of LARGE
EARTHQUAKES
Exploring Earth, Davidson,
Reed, and Davis, Prentice
Hall, 2nd Edition, Figure
Box-3, p. 304.
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/fliers/00mgg04.html
Burma
Microplate Sumatra
Indian
Plate
The process of subduction that has created Indonesia
through volcanic activity, also makes it dangerous.
Exploring Earth, Davidson, Reed, and Davis, Prentice Hall, 2nd
Edition, Figure 10.3, p. 289.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/msh//climactic.html
Exploring Earth, Davidson, Reed, and Davis, Prentice Hall, 2nd
Edition, Figure Box-1, p. 444.
Seismic “Tomography” Has Allowed Us
to Explore the Interior of Our Planet….
http://www.seismology.harvard.edu/projects/3D/
Courtesy of A.
Dziewonski
Exploring Earth, Davidson, Reed, and Davis, Prentice Hall, 2nd
Edition, Figure 10.3, p. 289.
This is what parts of the U.S. used to look like…..
Note: I haven’t found this, or anything close enough yet.
Seismic Imaging Reveals the Most Likely Places to
Find Oil and Natural Gas.
Note: I haven’t found this, or anything close enough yet.
It also will also reveal the locations of the next big
source of energy, methane gas hydrates.
http://picturethis.pnl.gov/pic
turet.nsf/All/53KTZG?open
document
http://www.uni-kiel.de/futureocean/a2/bild2.gif
From the movie
“The Core”
From the movie
“The Core”
From the movie
“The Core”
This is an old print
from Verne’s
Journey to the
Center of the Earth,
but I can’t find a
reference for it.
http://physics.missouristate.edu/New_site/faculty/mayanovic/
research_bob_mayanovic.html
National Geographic, January, 1996.
DOWNWELLING
http://anquetil.colorado.edu/szhong/
UPWELLING
Courtesy of S. Zhong
http://www.earth.ox.
ac.uk/research/seis
mology.htm
Subduction
of ancient
Pacific
seafloor
beneath
North
America
….and
Courtesy of Van Heijst et al.
http://geology.asu.edu/research/deep_earth/deep_earth1.html
Fantasy Writer’s Idea of the Core-Mantle Boundary….
http://www.violetbooks.com/gallery/stjohn4.html
Artist’s Idea of
the Core-Mantle
Boundary….
Note: I haven’t
found the
reference for this
yet.
Magnetic Field
Lines in Earth’s
Iron Core
Gary A. Glatzmaier & Paul H.
Roberts, "A three-dimensional
self-consistent computer
simulation of a geomagnetic
field reversal," Nature, 377,
203-209 (1995).
Courtesy of G. Glatzmaier
Magnetic Field
Lines in Earth’s
Iron Core
The Field
FLIPS
RANDOMLY
Every Few
100,000 Years
(or so)!
Gary A. Glatzmaier & Paul
H. Roberts, "A threedimensional self-consistent
computer simulation of a
geomagnetic field
reversal," Nature, 377, 203209 (1995).
Courtesy of G. Glatzmaier
Magnetic Field
Lines in Earth’s
Iron Core
The Field
FLIPS
RANDOMLY
Every Few
100,000 Years
(or so)!
Gary A. Glatzmaier & Paul H.
Roberts, "A three-dimensional
self-consistent computer
simulation of a geomagnetic
field reversal," Nature, 377,
203-209 (1995).
Courtesy of G. Glatzmaier
Magnetic Field
Lines in Earth’s
Iron Core
The Field
FLIPS
RANDOMLY
Every Few
100,000 Years
(or so)!
Gary A. Glatzmaier & Paul H.
Roberts, "A three-dimensional
self-consistent computer
simulation of a geomagnetic
field reversal," Nature, 377,
203-209 (1995).
Courtesy of G. Glatzmaier
Lines in Earth’s
Iron Core
The Field
Strength has
recently
decreased by
10%. Are we
beginning a
new field
reversal??
Gary A. Glatzmaier & Paul H.
Roberts, "A three-dimensional
self-consistent computer
simulation of a geomagnetic
field reversal," Nature, 377,
203-209 (1995).
Courtesy of G. Glatzmaier
http://geophysics.nmsu.edu/jni/introgeophys/01_w
hat_is/icore_xc.gif
Magnetic field lines in the core.
Gary A. Glatzmaier & Paul H.
Roberts, "A three-dimensional
self-consistent computer
simulation of a geomagnetic
field reversal," Nature, 377,
203-209 (1995).
http://www.exploratorium.edu/learni
ng_studio/auroras/happen.html