EESA06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: John Tuzo Wilson, North American Plate, Plate Tectonics
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Mature ocean example: atlantic: uniformitarianism: we look at the present conditions around the planet whether its plate tectonics or anything else. We look at the present day to determine ancient past. The impact of meteorites on the earth has been partial and been wearied off due to weathering and erosion: another thing we haven"t seen is mega volcanoes or yellow stones. We look at the modern day analogue, we learn from these analogue and we go back to the very highly deformed rocks and we use what we learn to predict the ancient environment. Slide 1. 2, 2. 1 & 3. 1: plates of planet earth is about 2 dozens of these plates but these are lithospheric slabs which are moving over the asthenosphere. John tuzo wilson, professor of geophysics at uoft introduces the theory of plate tectonic paradigm (revolution in thinking) in 1967: at the ontario science center you"ll see this rather undistinguished column of steel there and a broken fence.
