Downloads

Welcome to our download page. The animation clips and other geo-educational items described below, are available for viewing and/or download free of charge for your personal and/or educational uses only. If you wish to use any of the items for the purposes of being sold in some form, contact Tanya Atwater and we can discuss licensing agreements and costs. If you have any comments or suggestions, please email Tanya at atwater@geol.ucsb.edu.

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Table of Contents- (click the section header to skip down to a specific section)

*indicates an item that is listed under more than one category.

Dates indicate times of most recent revision of products. Written materials
accompanying downloads were mostly added in 06/11.

1 - Global Tectonics

Pangean Breakup and Continental Drift, flat Earth. animations 03/10
      Plain Continents
      Continents with collisional deformations in Eurasia
Pangean Breakup and Continental Drift, flat earth. physical puzzle 06/11
Ocean-Continent Subduction* (Cretaceous California), block diagram. animation 05/10
Continental Collision (India-Asia collision), cut globe. animation 08/08
Spreading of the South Atlantic, cut globe. animation 08/08
Seafloor Spreading Geometry, near view. series of six animations 04/12
      Seafloor Spreading. animation 04/12
      Seafloor Spreading with Spreading Arrows. animation 10/08
      Seafloor Spreading with Transform Fault Arrows. animation 10/08
      Magnetic Field Polarity Reversals, Explanation. animation 09/09
      Seafloor Spreading and Marine Magnetic Stripes with Reversal Timescale. animation 04/12
      Seafloor Spreading and Marine Magnetic Stripes. animation 04/12
World Physiographic Map and Spinning Globe. animation 10/08
World Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Plate Tectonics, map stack. xeroxable exercise 07/08
Oceanic Transform Fault Geometry. paper and box demonstration models 03/12

2 - Ice Age Earth and Sea Level Changes

Deglaciation of North America, 20 to 6 thousand years ago. animation 09/09
Ice Ages and Sea Level Fluctuations. animations 09/01
Post-glacial Flooding of San Francisco Bay. animation 05/06
Post-glacial Flooding of the Chesapeake Bay.* animation 04/08
Post-glacial Flooding of the Persian Gulf. animation 09/09
Catastrophic Flooding of the Black Sea (Noah's Flood?). animation and images 06/11
Coastal Erosion and the Formation of Marine Terraces, cross sections. animations
Erosion of Beach Cliffs by Waves. animations 09/09
Formation ands Uplift of a set of Marine Terraces. animation 09/10
Isolation and Evolution of Pygmy Mammoths, S.B. Channel Islands.* narrated movie 04/08

3 - Regional Plate Tectonics, global views

South Atlantic: Breakup, Drift, and Seafloor Spreading. animation 03/10
North-central Atlantic: Breakup, Drift, and Seafloor Spreading.* animation 01/11
North Pacific Ocean: Drift and Seafloor Spreading.* animation 04/12
South Pacific Ocean: Drift and Seafloor Spreading. animation 03/06

4 - N.E. Pacific and W. North America: Plate Tectonic and Geologic Histories

Pacific Hemisphere Plate Tectonics, 80 Ma to Present.* animation 04/12
N.E. Pacific and W. North America Plate History, 38Ma to Present. animation 10/07
California and Baja California Plate Tectonic History, 20 Ma to Present. animation 10/09
Southern California History with Transverse Ranges Rotation, 20 Ma to Present. animation and images 06/11
Southern California History with Rotating Paleomagnetic Vectors, 20 Ma to Present. animation and data image 06/11
Southern California: Origin and Dispersal of the Poway Conglomerate, 150 Ma to Present. animation and images 06/11
Southern California: History of San Andreas Earthquake Breaks. animation and images 06/11
Southern California Plate Model.* paper puzzle pieces for cut-up and construction 06/11

5 - Geologic History of the Transverse Ranges Region, block diagrams and more

Mesozoic: Ocean-Continent Subduction.* animation 05/10
Miocene Rifting and Rotation, Volcanism, Crustal Upwelling, and Sedimentation. animation 06/04
Plio-Pleistocene Oblique Shortening. animation 06/04
Isolation and Evolution of Pygmy Mammoths, S.B. Channel Islands.* narrated movie 04/08
Southern California Plate Model.* paper puzzle pieces for cut-up and construction 06/11

6 - Origin of Santa Barbara Oil, cross sectional views

Plio-Pleistocene Structural Evolution. animation
Migration of oil into anticlines. animation
Oil Seeps along Faults. animation

7 - U.S. Atlantic Seaboard, Central Region: Plate Tectonic and Geological Histories

North-Central Atlantic Breakup, Drift, and Seafloor Spreading, global view.* animation 01/11
Miocene Sea Level Fluctuations and Coastal Shifts, block diagram. animations 03/08
Miocene deposition of Calvert Cliffs Miocene Fossil Beds, cross section. animation and image 04/08
Post-glacial Flooding of the Chesapeake Bay.* animation 04/08