How Tectonic Plates Create Volcanic Arcs
In short: This film explains how the subduction of tectonic plates creates magma, builds massive volcanic arcs, and recycles the Earth's crust.
A 1:40 short film in the series “Nature's Extremes”.
Sources used in this film: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), “Understanding plate motions [This Dynamic Earth, USGS]”; U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), “U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)”; U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), “Volcanoes: Plate-Tectonics Theory”; U.S. National Park Service, “Tectonic Landforms and Mountain Building - Geology (U.S. National Park Service)”; ScienceDirect, “Differentiating advancing and retreating subduction zones through regional zircon Hf isotope mapping: A case study from the Eastern Tianshan, NW China”; ScienceDirect, “Upper Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the Meso-Tethys Ocean: Geochronological and geochemical constraints from central Tibetan Plateau ophiolites and magmatic arc rocks”; Science, “Mantle Convection and Plate Tectonics: Toward an Integrated Physical and Chemical Theory”; Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, “Earth’s thermal evolution, mantle convection, and Hadean onset of plate tectonics”; U.S. Geological Survey, “Quaternary Magmatism in the Cascades--Geologic Perspectives”.
Sources used in this film
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) — Understanding plate motions [This Dynamic Earth, USGS] · View →
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) — U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) · View →
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) — Volcanoes: Plate-Tectonics Theory · View →
- U.S. National Park Service — Tectonic Landforms and Mountain Building - Geology (U.S. National Park Service) · View →
- ScienceDirect — Differentiating advancing and retreating subduction zones through regional zircon Hf isotope mapping: A case study from the Eastern Tianshan, NW China · View →
- ScienceDirect — Upper Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the Meso-Tethys Ocean: Geochronological and geochemical constraints from central Tibetan Plateau ophiolites and magmatic arc rocks · View →
- Science — Mantle Convection and Plate Tectonics: Toward an Integrated Physical and Chemical Theory · View →
- Journal of Asian Earth Sciences — Earth’s thermal evolution, mantle convection, and Hadean onset of plate tectonics · View →
- U.S. Geological Survey — Quaternary Magmatism in the Cascades--Geologic Perspectives · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS): Understanding plate motions [This Dynamic Earth, USGS]
- Also: U.S. Geological Survey: U.S. Geological Survey
- Also: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS): Volcanoes: Plate-Tectonics Theory
- Also: U.S. National Park Service: Tectonic Landforms and Mountain Building - Geology (U.S. National Park Service)
- Also: ScienceDirect: Differentiating advancing and retreating subduction zones through regional zircon Hf isotope mapping: A case study from the Eastern Tianshan, NW China
- Also: ScienceDirect: Upper Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the Meso-Tethys Ocean: Geochronological and geochemical constraints from central Tibetan Plateau ophiolites and magmatic arc rocks
- Also: Science: Mantle Convection and Plate Tectonics: Toward an Integrated Physical and Chemical Theory
- Also: Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: Earth’s thermal evolution, mantle convection, and Hadean onset of plate tectonics
- Also: U.S. Geological Survey: Quaternary Magmatism in the Cascades--Geologic Perspectives
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