ANIMATIONS for OCEANOGRAPHY -

To accompany the course textbook

The animations are listed under the chapter to which they correspond. Each animation

has a voice-over explanation, so turn your speakers on before you hit the “Play” button.

Ch 2 - Origins The Nebular Hypothesis of Solar System Formation Radioactive Decay CH 3 - Plate Tectonics Breakup of Pangaea Collapse of Mount St. Helens Convergent Margins: India-Asia Collision Flipping of Earth's Magnetic Field Formation of an Ocean Basin by Sea Floor Spreading Motion at Plate Boundaries Global Geography Through Geologic Time Relationship between Plate Boundaries and Features Sea Floor Spreading and Plate Boundaries Sea Floor Spreading and Rock Magnetism Tectonic Settings of Volcanic Activity Terrane Formation CH 4 - Ocean Floor and Marine Provinces Sonar and Echolocation Transform Faults Turbidity Currents and Graded Bedding CH 5 - Marine Sediments Calcareous Ooze and the CCD CH 6 - Water and Seawater Earth's Water and the Hydrologic Cycle Phase Changes of Water CH 8- Air-Sea Interactions Cold Fronts and Warm Fronts Coriolis Effect Cyclones and Anticyclones Earth-Sun Relations Global Wind Patterns Hurricanes Seasons and Global Precipitation

CH 9 - Ocean Circulation Ekman Spiral and Coastal Upwelling/Downwelling El Niño and La Niña Ocean Circulation CH 10 - Waves and Water Dynamics Interference Patterns in Waves Tsunami Wave Motion and Wave Refraction CH 11- Tides Monthly Tidal Cycle Tidal Patterns CH 12 - Coasts and Shoreline Processes Coastal Stabilization Structures Longshore Current and Longshore Drift Movement of a Barrier Island in Response to Rising Sea Level Movement of Sand in a Beach Compartment Summertime/Wintertime Beach Conditions CH 13 - Marine Life and the Marine Environment Daily Movement of the Deep Scattering Layer (DSL) CH 14 - Biological Productivity Ekman Spiral and Coastal Upwelling/Downwelling Oceanic Midlatitude Productivity CH 15 - Marine Animals Sonar and Echolocation CH 18 - The Oceans and Climate Change Atmospheric Energy Balance Global Warming