Continent-Continent CollisionsContinent-Continent Collisions

John Louie

Geol 333

Spring 2001

Purpose

• Provide Examples of Features of Known and Suspected Continental Collisions

• Topographic and bathymetric images derived from Eartha Global Explorer, Copyright 1998 by DeLorme Inc., Yarmouth, Maine. www.delorme.com

• New Zealand example from work by Louie, Henrys, and Bannister of UNR and the Crown Institute for Geological and Nuclear Sciences, New Zealand. www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/weber/

Continental Collision• Indian Impact

Continental Collision• Indian Impact

Continental Collision• Indian Impact

Continental Collision• Arabian Impact

Continental Collision• Italian Impact?

Continental Collision• Iberian Impact?

Continental Collision• Taiwan Impact?

Continental Collision• Paleozoic Impact?

Continental Collision• Paleozoic Impact?