High quality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sykanFm8BlU&fmt=18
An Animated Tectonic History of Western North America and Southern California.
Tanya Atwater, Dept. Geological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Summary list of QuickTime animations:
A.Pacific-North America Plate Tectonic History (map views)
1. Pacific Hemisphere, 80 Ma to Present
2. N.E. Pacific and W. North America, 38 Ma to Present
3. California, 20 Ma to Present
4. Southern California, 20 Ma to Present
5. Southern California Paleomagnetic Vectors
6. Southern California, Origin and Dispersal of the Poway Conglomerate
B.Geologic History of the Transverse Ranges, Southern California
1. Mesozoic Subduction
2. Miocene: Rifting and rotation, volcanism and deposition in marine basins
3. Plio-Pleistocene: Oblique Shortening against the "Big Bend"
4. Santa Barbara Channel Oil
B.1. Mesozoic Subduction.
Illustrates the geological processes commonly found at subduction zones. The Basement rocks of much of California were formed in this way.
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