Mantle Convection Movies On-Line at Caltech
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~gurnis/Movies/movies-more.html

California Institute of Technology Seismological Laboratory

This Caltech website contains movies and animations about mantle convection, along with brief summaries of the science behind it. Topics covered include supercontinents, superplumes, Australia, oceanic plates and faults, plate tectonic models, and stirring by mantle convection.

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This resource is referenced here:

• Cutting Edge:Deep Earth:Visualization Collectons: Mantle Plumes and Convection Visualizations
• Cutting Edge:Geophysics:Visualizations: Plate Tectonic Movements
• Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Teaching with Visualizations: Visualization of Model Output

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodynamics, Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Modeling Structural Processes, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video
Special Interest: Visualization
Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)
Data Derived: Data Derived
Data Source: Synthetic/Model Data
Topics: Solid Earth