Petrology Chapter 1Gautam Sen
Formation of Solar System
Earth’s Internal Layering
Origin of Earth’s Layers
Origin of Layering
Origin of Layering
Plates
Types of Plate Boundaries
Types of Plate Boundaries
Pangaea
Pacific Hot Spot Tracks
Origin of Hot Spot Island Chain
Flood Basalts & Hot Spot Tracks
Mantle Plumes
Wilson Hypothesis
Wilson Hypothesis
East African Rift System
Subduction & Mountain Building
McKenzie Model of Flood Basalts & Separation of Continents
Slow (Red) and Fast (Cold) areas in the Mantle
Model for Supercontinent Separation
Anderson’s Hypothesis