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This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics

The images in this collection are high resolution originals that were used to generate the GIF and JPEG images used in the online version of This Dynamic Earth. File endings are as follows: .ai = Adobe Illustrator, .psd = Adobe Photoshop, .eps = Encapsulated Postscript, .tif = Tagged Information File Format.

Sundoro Volcano
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Crystal Springs Reservoir
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Shrinking of the formerly very large Farallon Plate
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Moving tectonic plates
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Deep-sea giant clams
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The Alvin below water
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Movement of the Pacific Plate over the fixed Hawaiian
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Aerial view of the San Andreas fault
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A GPS  ground receiver
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Sketch of the Shinkai 6500
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Sunset view of  Mt. Everest
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The Ring of Fire, a zone of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
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Travel times for tsunamis to reach Hawaii
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 Western North America showing some important plate-tectonics features
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Fossil locations show patterns on rejoined continents
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A colony of tube worms
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Blanco, Mendocino, Murray, and Molokai fracture zones
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Spider crab eating tube worms
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The JOIDES Resolution
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Mount Pinatubo plume
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U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
URL http://mam.er.usgs.gov/
Contact: John Watson
Last modification: 03/10/2000 (jmw)