The Red Sea Forming a new ocean basin

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The Red Sea Forming a new ocean basin
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Life Cycle of an Ocean
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Types of Faults
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Stages of Ocean Rifting
Embryonic regional uplift rift valleys on
continent East African Rift Valley Juvenile
rift valley deepens and is flooded by
seawater spreading Gulf of Aqaba
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East African Rift Valley embryonic
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Dead Sea Rift
initial opening flooding with seawater
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Stages of Ocean Rifting
Juvenile ocean basin Red Sea
Mature ocean basin with spreading center
continental margins Atlantic Ocean
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Red Sea juvenile ocean
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Stages of Ocean Rifting
Mature Declining convergence (subduction)
trenches island arcs coastal mountain
ranges Pacific Ocean
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South Atlantic mature ocean basin
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Stages of Ocean Rifting
Declining Terminal convergence collision
regional uplift narrow seas Mediterranean Sea
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Persian Gulf terminal basin
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Stages of Ocean Rifting
Terminal Persian Gulf Suturing continental
collision uplift mountain belts Himalayas and
Tibetan Plateau
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Indian subcontinent / Himalayan Plateau
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Rifting of the Red Sea
modern extension of the MOR spreading
center (Carlsberg Ridge)
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Rifting of Pangea
In the beginning of the Jurassic, about 200
million years ago, the same set of processes
began rifting Pangea to form the Atlantic
Ocean.
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Afar Triple Junction
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Extensional Faulting in the Afar Rift
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Axial Volcanoes in the Afar Rift
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Regional Basalt Intrusion Somalia
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East African RiftMap
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East African Rift
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Lake Tanganyika
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Mount Kilamanjaro
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Nile DeltaSinai PeninsulaNorthern Red
SeaNile Valley
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Sinai Peninsula
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The Dead Sea
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The Dead Sea Rift
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ClosurePart I
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Peruvian Trench
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Chilean Coast
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Andes Mountains
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ClosurePart II
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Tethys Seaway
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Persian Gulf Strait of Hormuz
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Indian subcontinent provinces
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Indian Plate Collision from Space
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Himalayan Front from Space
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View into the Himalayas
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Tectonic Map
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Western U.S. Great Basin