Tertiary Tectonics

   This animation by Dr. Chris Scotese shows the movement of the plates during the Tertiary Period.  It represents

about last 65 million years of the earths history.  Notice the widening of the Atlantic Ocean as well as the collision

of India into Asia forming the Himalaya Mountains.

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Click here to view animation of extension of western North America.

(Animation produced by Tanya Atwater, UCSB)