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