Historical Geology Chapter Vocabulary
Chapter 3-Plate Tectonics: A Unifying Theory
based upon Historical Geology-by Wicander and Monroe
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continental drift
Glossopteris
Gondwanaland (the southern continents joined together) (fig. 3.4)

Alfred Wegener (1915)
Pangaea  (fig. 3.3)
matchups: continental outlines, faults, volcanic deposits, ore deposits, mountain ranges, etc.
Alexander du Toit (1937)
glacial evidence (fig. 3.5)
fossil evidence (fig. 3.6)
flaw: missing mechanism for moving the continents

paleomagnetism
magnetite-Curie point (tied to magnetism)
polar wandering

magnetic reversals-Harry Hess (1963)-seafloor spreading (fig. 3.10)
thermal convection cells
magnetic anomalies (fig. 3.11 and fig. 3.12)

plate boundaries (fig. 3.13)
maximum movement about 17 cm/yr  (7 inches/yr)
crustal plates: continental crust and oceanic crust
lithosphere over the asthenosphere (soft and hot)

divergent boundaries
spreading ridges (ex. Mid-Atlantic ridge)
rift valley
pillow lavas
Figure 3.15
East African rift (fig. 3.16)

convergent boundaries
subduction, subduction zone, subducted plate
ocean-ocean plate boundary-trench, volcanic island arc (fig. 3.18)
ocean-continental plate boundary-trench, andesitic volcanoes (fig. 3.19)
continental-continental plate boundary-mountain building

transform boundaries
transform faults-San Andreas fault (fig. 3.23)

hot spots-mantle plumes-Hawaii & Yellowstone National Park

convection (fig.3.26)
terranes
plate tectonics related to animal diversity