Images for Plate Tectonics

Evidence of Continental drift

• Alfred Wegener
• Southern continents showing distribution of fossils
• Southern continents showing distribution of fossils (grayscale)
• Pangaean glaciers
• Pangaean glaciers as shown on today's continents
• Pangaean rock strata

Animals and Plants

• Sigallaria (seed fern)
• Cyanognathus (mammal-like dinosaur)
• Lystrosaurus (extinct reptile)
• Mesosaur (extinct marine reptile)

Plate tectonics

• Earth's Tectonic Plates
• Earth's Tectonic Plates (gray scale)
• Diagram of plates and ring of fire
• Diagram of cross-section of plate boundaries
• Hot spots of the world with plate boundaries shown
• Whole continental drift sequence
• Diagram of slab-pull

Mid-ocean Ridges

• World map showing mid-ocean ridges
• World map showing mid-ocean ridges (smaller)

Magnetic Stripes

• Magnetic stripes in ocean crust
• Magnetic stripes in ocean crust (grayscale)
• Magnetic stripes in ocean crust
• Map showing magnetic stripes in ocean crust off of NW coast.

Local Stuff

• Diagram of subduction zone structure in transect across Seattle.
• Cross-section diagram of Juan de Fuca ridge and Cascade Range tectonics.
• Plate tectonics of the Cascades.
• Western North American terranes.
• Detailed diagram of faults in NW WA.
• Plate boundaries of Western North America.