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