ANIMATIONS for OCEANOGRAPHY

To accompany Trujillo + Thurman Essentials of Oceanography

Each animation has a voice-over explanation, so turn your speakers on before you hit the “Play” button.

Ch 1 Introduction to Planet “Earth” Solar System Formation Radioactive Decay CH 2 Plate Tectonics and the Ocean Floor Breakup of Pangaea Convergent Margins: India-Asia Collision Flipping of Earth's Magnetic Field Formation of an Ocean Basin Motion at Plate Boundaries Global Geography Through Geologic Time Plate Boundary Features Sea Floor Spreading and Plate Boundaries Sea Floor Spreading and Rock Magnetism Tectonic Settings of Volcanic Activity Terrane Formation CH 3 Marine Provinces Sonar and Echolocation Transform Faults Turbidity Currents and Graded Bedding CH 4 Marine Sediments Calcareous Ooze and the CCD CH 5 Water and Seawater Earth's Water and the Hydrologic Cycle Phase Changes of Water CH 6 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 7 Ocean Circulation Ekman Spiral and Coastal Upwelling/Downwelling El Niño and La Niña Ocean Circulation CH 8 Waves and Water Dynamics Interference Patterns in Waves Tsunami Wave Motion and Wave Refraction CH 9 Tides Monthly Tidal Cycle Tidal Patterns CH 10 The Coast Coastal Stabilization Structures Longshore Current and Longshore Drift Movement of Barrier Islands Beach Compartments Summer vs Winter Beach Conditions CH 12 Marine Life and the Marine Environment Deep Scattering Layer (DSL) CH 13 Biological Productivity Coastal Upwelling/Downwelling Oceanic Midlatitude Productivity CH 14 Animals of the Pelagic Environment Sonar and Echolocation CH 16 The Oceans and Climate Change Atmospheric Energy Balance Global Warming