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Plate tectonics provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 15 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

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15 hours worth of material
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Overview

  • Plate tectonics is an earth sciences topic that attracts a good deal of interest, given that it a topic very often featured in popular science programmes on TV and radio. It is a subject that has ...

Syllabus

    • Introduction
    • Learning outcomes
    • 1 Preamble: the moving Earth
    • 1 Preamble: the moving Earth
    • 2 From continental drift to plate tectonics
    • 2 From continental drift to plate tectonics
    • 2.1 Continental drift
    • 2.2 Evidence for continental drift
    • 2.2.1 Geometric continental reconstructions
    • 2.2.2 Geological match and continuity of structure
    • 2.2.3 Climate, sediment and the mismatch of sedimentary deposits with latitude
    • 2.2.4 Palaeontological evidence
    • 2.2.5 Palaeomagnetic evidence and 'polar wander'
    • 2.3 Sea-floor spreading
    • 2.3.1 Linear magnetic anomalies - a record of tectonic movement
    • 2.3.2 Plate tectonics
    • 3 The theory of plate tectonics
    • 3 The theory of plate tectonics
    • 3.1 Assumptions
    • 3.1.1 What is a plate?
    • 3.2 Heat flow within plates
    • 3.3 Constructive plate boundaries
    • 3.4 Destructive plate boundaries
    • 3.5 Destructive plate boundaries, continued: ocean-ocean (island-arc) subduction
    • 3.6 Destructive plate boundaries, continued: ocean-continent (Andean type) subduction
    • 3.7 Destructive plate boundaries, continued: continent-continent destructive boundaries
    • 3.8 Conservative plate boundaries and transform faults
    • 3.9 Triple junctions
    • 4 Plate tectonic motion
    • 4 Plate tectonic motion
    • 4.1 Relative plate motions
    • 4.2 Hot-spot trails and true plate motions
    • 4.3 Plate motion on a spherical Earth
    • 5 Plate driving forces
    • 5 Plate driving forces
    • 5.1 Why do plates move?
    • 5.2 Forces acting upon lithospheric plates
    • 5.2.1 Forces acting on the underside of lithospheric plates
    • 5.2.2 Lithospheric plates: forces acting at plate margins
    • 5.6 Implications of plate tectonics
    • 5.6.1 The Wilson cycle
    • 5.6.2 Plate tectonics and climate change
    • Conclusion
    • 5.8 Further reading
    • Acknowledgements

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