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CHAPTER 2 Plate Tectonics and the Ocean Floor
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Chapter Overview
• Much evidence supports plate tectonics theory.
• Different plate boundaries have different features.
• Tectonic plates continue to move today.
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Plate Tectonics
• Alfred Wegener first proposed in 1912
• Called it “Continental Drift”
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Evidence for Continental Drift
• Wegener proposed Pangaea – one large continent existed 200 million years ago
• Panthalassa – one large ocean
• Noted puzzle-like fit of modern continents
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Evidence for Continental Drift
• Matching sequences of rocks and mountain chains
• Similar rocks on different continents
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Evidence for Continental Drift
• Glacial ages and other climate evidence
• Evidence of glaciation in now tropical regions
• Direction of glacial flow and rock scouring
• Plant and animal fossils indicate different climate than today
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Evidence for Continental Drift
• Distribution of organisms
• Same fossils found on continents that today are widely separated
• Modern organisms with similar ancestries
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Objections to Early Continental Drift Model
• Hostile criticism and open ridicule
• Continents cannot plow through ocean basins
• Tidal gravitational attractions too small
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Evidence for Plate Tectonics
• Earth’s magnetic field and paleomagnetism
• Earth has magnetic polarity
• North and South polarities
• Magnetic polarity recorded in igneous rocks– Magnetite in basalt
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Evidence for Plate Tectonics
• Paleomagnetism – study of Earth’s ancient magnetic field– Interprets where rocks first formed– Magnetic dip
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Earth’s Magnetic Field
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Evidence for Plate Tectonics
• Apparent polar wandering
• Location of North Pole changed over time
• Magnetic dip data
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Magnetic Polarity Reversals
• Earth’s magnetic polarity reverses periodically
• Recorded in ancient rocks
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Paleomagnetism and the Ocean Floor
• 1955 – deep water rock mapping
• Magnetic anomalies – regular pattern of north-south magnetism “stripes”
• Stripes were symmetrical about long underwater mountain range
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Sea Floor Spreading
• Harry Hess
• Depth recordings show sea floor features
• History of Ocean Basins– Sea-floor spreading– Mantle convection cells as driving mechanism
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Plate Tectonic Processes
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Sea Floor Spreading
• Mid-ocean ridge – spreading center
• Subduction zones – oceanic trench site of crust destruction
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Sea Floor Spreading Evidence
• Frederick Vine and Drummond Matthews (1963)
• Sea floor stripes record Earth’s magnetic polarity
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Age of Ocean Floor
• Late 1960s deep-sea drilling
• Radiometric dating of ocean rocks
• Symmetric pattern of age distribution about mid-ocean ridges
• Oldest ocean floor only 180 million years old
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Age of Ocean Floor
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Heat Flow
• Heat flow – heat from Earth’s interior released to surface
• Very high at mid-ocean ridges
• Low at subduction zones
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Earthquakes As Evidence
• Most large earthquakes occur at subduction zones.
• Earthquake activity mirrors tectonic plate boundaries.
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Global Distribution of Earthquakes
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Global Plate Boundaries
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Plate Tectonics Theory
• Lithosphere – tectonic plates that float on ductile asthenosphere
• Large scale geologic features occur at plate boundaries
• Two major tectonic forces– Slab pull– Slab suction
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Types of Plate Boundaries
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Examples of Plate Boundaries
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Divergent Boundary Features
• Plates move apart• Mid-ocean ridge
– Rift valley• New ocean floor
created• Shallow focus
earthquakes
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Generation of a Divergent Boundary
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Types of Spreading Centers• Oceanic rise
– Fast-spreading– Gentle slopes– East Pacific
• Oceanic ridge– Slow-spreading– Steep slopes– Mid-Atlantic
• Ultra-slow– Deep rift valley– Widely scattered volcanoes– Arctic and southwest India
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Types of Spreading Centers
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Convergent Boundary Features
• Plates move toward each other• Oceanic crust destroyed
– Ocean trench
– Volcanic arc
• Deep focus earthquakes
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Three Types of Convergent Boundaries
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Types of Convergent Boundaries
• Oceanic-Continental Convergence– Ocean plate is
subducted– Continental arcs
generated– Explosive andesitic
volcanic eruptions
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Types of Convergent Boundaries
• Oceanic-Oceanic Convergence– Denser plate is subducted– Deep trenches generated– Volcanic island arcs generated
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Types of Convergent Boundaries
• Continental-Continental Convergence– No subduction– Tall mountains uplifted
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Transform Boundary Features
• Offsets oriented perpendicular to mid-ocean ridge– Segments of plates slide past
each other
• Offsets permit mid-ocean ridge to move apart at different rates
• Shallow but strong earthquakes
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Transform Boundary Features• Oceanic Transform Fault – ocean floor only• Continental Transform Fault – cuts across
continent• All transform faults
occur between mid-ocean ridge segments.
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Applications of Plate Tectonics
• Mantle Plumes and Hotspots– Intraplate features
• Volcanic islands within a plate• Island chains
• Record ancient plate motions– Nematath – hotspot track
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Global Hotspot Locations
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Hawaiian Island – Emperor Seamount Nematath
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Plate Tectonics and Intraplate Features
• Seamounts – Rounded tops
• Tablemounts or guyots– Flattened tops
• Subsidence of flanks of mid-ocean ridge• Wave erosion may flatten seamount
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Coral Reef Development
• Fringing reefs – develop along margin of landmass
• Barrier reefs – separated from landmass by lagoon
• Atolls – reefs continue to grow after volcanoes are submerged
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Coral Reef Development
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Detecting Plate Motion with Satellites
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Paleogeography
• Paleogeography – study of ancient continents
• Continental accretion– Continental material added to edges of
continents through plate motion
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Paleogeographic Reconstructions
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Future Predictions
• Future positions of continents and oceans– Assume same direction and rate of plate
motions as now
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World Map 50 million Years in Future
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Wilson cycle
• John Tuzo Wilson
• Life cycle of ocean basins–Formation
–Growth
–Destruction
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Wilson cycleWilson cycle
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