Transcript of Plate Tectonics and Western North America. Magnetic Stripes off Pacific Coast.
Plate Tectonics and Western North America
Magnetic Stripes off Pacific Coast
Evolution of the Eastern Pacific
Western U.S. and the Andes
How the West Was Stretched
The Plate Tectonics Model
Geology of the Caribbean
Fit of Continents Across the
Atlantic
The Caribbean
The Caribbean Plate
How the Plates are Moving
Some Mysteries
• What was between North and South America?• How did Central America form?• Where did the Greater Antilles come from?• Why is the Caribbean shallower than the
Atlantic?• Why is there a plate between North and South