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Allison Jones
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I am a professor of Earth Science at Sierra College in Northern California with a background in structural geology and (weirdly) communication. I make videos for my students and the general public to learn a little about our planet.
Tectonic Evolution of the Western United States | Animation by Dr. Tanya Atwater
Present (last frame of movie). At Present the Pacific Plate fills most of the northeast Pacific Ocean basin with only the small Juan de Fuca and Cocos plates remaining from the previous configuration. The various shades of blue show the ages of the sea floor, as deduced from marine magnetic anomalies. The Pacific plate is moving northwest past North America. It has captured some slivers of the continental edge and is carrying them northwestward toward Alaska. Thus, the present Pacific-North America plate boundary lies within the continent, along the San Andreas fault system. It is connected to other plate boundaries at three-plate triple junctions, the so-called Mendocino and Rivera triple junctions; the locations and motions of these triple junctions help determine the on-shore geology in each time and place.
Early Cenozoic, 38 million years ago (first frame of movie). In the early Cenozoic, 40 Million Years Ago, other oceanic plates lay between the Pacific and North American plates. They were spreading away from the Pacific plate and subducting beneath the rim of the continent.
East Pacific Rise Migration. Coming forward in time, the eastern edge of the Pacific plate moved steadily northeastward as new seafloor was accreted by sea floor spreading. Eventually, the spreading center itself reached the subduction zone and the intervening plate was destroyed. The Pacific plate began to break off pieces of North America and carry them along the coast, creating the San Andreas-Gulf of California plate boundary inside the continent.
Triple Junction Evolution. Watch the motions of the triple junctions. The Mendocino triple junction migrated steadily up the coast, attached to the Mendocino fracture zone on the Pacific plate. The Rivera triple junction hovered near the southern California borderland then, about 12 million years ago, when sea-floor spreading and subduction ceased off Baja California, it jumped to its modern position at the mouth of the Gulf of California.
San Andreas System Evolution. The past evolution of the San Andreas fault system occurred in two stage process. First the Salinian and borderland pieces of the continent were gradually transferred to the Pacific plate, later Baja California was transferred. A third stage has begun: the Sierra Nevada/Great Valley block is in the early stages of being transferred and carried away.
Pacific Plate Motion. Watch the motion of the Pacific plate. It continually moved off to the northwest.
Basin and Range Expansion. Now watch what happened to the interior of North America. In the early Cenozoic, western North America was much narrower. (Check out narrow Nevada!) During the late Cenozoic it expanded, forming the Basin and Range province. This occurred during the time that the Pacific plate was pulling the rim of the continent away to the northwest, perhaps causing the expansion or, more likely, just making room for it. (It was already elevated, hot and weak, ready to fall apart given the chance.
Drawn and animated by Dr. Tanya Atwater using Photoshop and Morph. Thanks to Bill Menard, Joann Stock, Jeff Severinghaus, Doug Wilson, Craig Nicholson, Gene Humphries, and many others for shared work and helpful comments. The reconstructions closely follow those presented in Atwater and Stock, 1998, Int. Geol. Rev., v. 40, p. 375.
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ABOUT ME:
👋 I’m Allison, a structural geologist and Earth Science educator in Northern California. I help college students and geology enthusiasts understand the processes that shape our planet. 🌎
💡Learn more about me at www.allisondeanjones.com
🎥For more videos like this one, subscribe: CZcams.com/@allisondeanjones
MY TECH:
📷Camera: Canon M50
🎙️Microphone: Blue Yeti X
📀Software: Camtasia 2022
MY FIELD GEAR:
🥾Boots: Lowa Renegade
🎒Backpack: Osprey Sirrus 36 or 24
🧭Compass: Brunton northern hemisphere
#geology #earthscience #science #earth #rocks #highered #geoscience
Early Cenozoic, 38 million years ago (first frame of movie). In the early Cenozoic, 40 Million Years Ago, other oceanic plates lay between the Pacific and North American plates. They were spreading away from the Pacific plate and subducting beneath the rim of the continent.
East Pacific Rise Migration. Coming forward in time, the eastern edge of the Pacific plate moved steadily northeastward as new seafloor was accreted by sea floor spreading. Eventually, the spreading center itself reached the subduction zone and the intervening plate was destroyed. The Pacific plate began to break off pieces of North America and carry them along the coast, creating the San Andreas-Gulf of California plate boundary inside the continent.
Triple Junction Evolution. Watch the motions of the triple junctions. The Mendocino triple junction migrated steadily up the coast, attached to the Mendocino fracture zone on the Pacific plate. The Rivera triple junction hovered near the southern California borderland then, about 12 million years ago, when sea-floor spreading and subduction ceased off Baja California, it jumped to its modern position at the mouth of the Gulf of California.
San Andreas System Evolution. The past evolution of the San Andreas fault system occurred in two stage process. First the Salinian and borderland pieces of the continent were gradually transferred to the Pacific plate, later Baja California was transferred. A third stage has begun: the Sierra Nevada/Great Valley block is in the early stages of being transferred and carried away.
Pacific Plate Motion. Watch the motion of the Pacific plate. It continually moved off to the northwest.
Basin and Range Expansion. Now watch what happened to the interior of North America. In the early Cenozoic, western North America was much narrower. (Check out narrow Nevada!) During the late Cenozoic it expanded, forming the Basin and Range province. This occurred during the time that the Pacific plate was pulling the rim of the continent away to the northwest, perhaps causing the expansion or, more likely, just making room for it. (It was already elevated, hot and weak, ready to fall apart given the chance.
Drawn and animated by Dr. Tanya Atwater using Photoshop and Morph. Thanks to Bill Menard, Joann Stock, Jeff Severinghaus, Doug Wilson, Craig Nicholson, Gene Humphries, and many others for shared work and helpful comments. The reconstructions closely follow those presented in Atwater and Stock, 1998, Int. Geol. Rev., v. 40, p. 375.
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ABOUT ME:
👋 I’m Allison, a structural geologist and Earth Science educator in Northern California. I help college students and geology enthusiasts understand the processes that shape our planet. 🌎
💡Learn more about me at www.allisondeanjones.com
🎥For more videos like this one, subscribe: CZcams.com/@allisondeanjones
MY TECH:
📷Camera: Canon M50
🎙️Microphone: Blue Yeti X
📀Software: Camtasia 2022
MY FIELD GEAR:
🥾Boots: Lowa Renegade
🎒Backpack: Osprey Sirrus 36 or 24
🧭Compass: Brunton northern hemisphere
#geology #earthscience #science #earth #rocks #highered #geoscience
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Earth as a System | Earth's Four Spheres
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How to adjust your notification settings in Canvas
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Earthquakes Part 2
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Earthquakes Part 1
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Fault Types | Faults in five minutes
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00:00 Introduction 00:45 Hanging wall vs. footwall 02:05 Dip slip vs. strike slip 02:56 Normal faults 03:35 Reverse faults 04:12 Thrust faults 04:40 Strike slip faults ABOUT ME: 👋 I’m Allison, a structural geologist and Earth Science educator in Northern California. I help college students and geology enthusiasts understand the processes that shape our planet. 🌎 💡Learn more about me at www.alli...
Plate Boundaries
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Earth's Interior | Magnetism, temperature, and isostasy
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Absolute age dating | Isotopes, radiometric dating, and the oldest crystal on Earth!
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0:00 Absolute Age Dating 0:44 Isotopes 5:17 K-Ar dating technique 6:58 Other methods 8:37 The oldest crystal on Earth ABOUT ME: 👋 I’m Allison, a structural geologist and Earth Science educator in Northern California. I help college students and geology enthusiasts understand the processes that shape our planet. 🌎 💡Learn more about me at www.allisondeanjones.com 🎥For more videos like this one, s...
Relative age dating | Geological principles and unconformities
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Metamorphism and metamorphic rocks | Regional metamorphism and metasomatism
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Sedimentary rocks: Clastic vs. chemical | Transportation, deposition, and lithification
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0:00 Sedimentary Structures 2:19 Crossbedding 6:27 Ripples 9:47 Bed surface markings: Mudcracks 10:58 Turbidity currents and graded beds ABOUT ME: 👋 I’m Allison, a structural geologist and Earth Science educator in Northern California. I help college students and geology enthusiasts understand the processes that shape our planet. 🌎 💡Learn more about me at www.allisondeanjones.com 🎥For more vide...
Sediments and weathering | Mechanical (physical) weathering vs. chemical weathering
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Classifying igneous rocks | Describing composition and texture
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00:00 Introduction 00:54 Phaneritic (coarse-grained) texture 03:24 Pegmatitic texture 04:26 Aphanitic (fine-grained) texture 07:40 Porphyritic (bi-modal) texture 10:55 Glassy texture 12:58 Vesicular / porous texture 17:17 Fragmental / pyroclastic texture 19:07 Composition: Proportions of minerals 22:13 Classifying igneous rocks (how to give them a name!) ABOUT ME: 👋 I’m Allison, a structural ge...
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How to determine principal stress axes from a fault using a stereonet
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How to determine principal stress axes from a fault using a stereonet
Wonderful and very informative video. I have subscribed, thank you Allison.
Any software to find principle stresses of conjugate fracture, fold and fault with respect to dip and dip direction
thank you I have an exam tomorrow I needed this
Thank you for sharing it was very helpful.
Thank you for the Wonderful video.
Just Wow🎉❤
Nice video. The chineese have started their own deep borehole. We'll see how far they get.
Hi
Very helpful vid, thanks!
You’re a natural teacher, this is excellent!
👍👍👍👍👍 very good
Hi Just wondering, can you do a video about gemstones and the term gems and minerals, and what's the difference between these two. I think they interchangeable.
I'll add it to my list! Great suggestion. Thank you!
Igne in Sanskrit is called Agni, means Fire. That means rock from Fire (magma)
Ignis
@@Krewmio I am talking about Proto IndoEuropean language root of the word.
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Cool!
Thanks Allison , it was really useful and one of the best explanations about rock classification I've ever seen. I'll be grateful if you put a like for the chart .
15:31 But surely we can hear
😆I should have bounced the rock on the table!
Good presentation
Hi...would you like please to do a video about the determination of the principal stress axis of a reverse fault....
Very good lecture Thank you!
Great lecture
You lost me at English system, think you were looking for imperial system
Yep! Sorry, my mistake. :)
Thank you for your time doing this video for the people. I am learning on my own. Could you give me some keys to differentiate an amphibole from a pyroxene (horblende vs augite) . Thank you
Absolutely! The easiest way to distinguish the two is their cleavage. Amphiboles exhibit two cleavage planes at ~120 and ~60 degrees. Pyroxene exhibits two cleavage planes at ~90 degrees!
@@allisondeanjones Thank you for your answer. I'll search and check that out
I’m about 10 minutes in. Really articulate so far. Easy to follow. Stepsin logical order and helps build on each subsequent step. Kudos.
Thank you so much for the kind comment! Glad you found the video helpful. :)
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You did a nice job explaining concepts of metamorphism. Thank you for making the concepts relatively easy to understand (at least at the time, Ha!), it's mostly a matter of keeping them in mind when thinking about the rocks. The examples of the representative rocks is enlightening, and helps place to rock to a process. So appreciative. Thanks
Thanks for the kind comment, John! Glad you found the video helpful!
Well explained which makes it so easy to understand. Also very easy to listen to. Thankyou.
Thanks, John!
What a comprehensive explanation!! I'm in love of Geology now because of You. Please continue making such videos, they are very useful to us students
I thoroughly enjoy listening to your channel. I have recently signed up for a BSc in Geology through OU. Could you recommend any reading material which would be useful in the future. Regards from Northern Ireland.
fantastic...very clear video helps along with your knowledge
Thank you ma'am 😇, well explained !
thanks a lot :) <3
Thanks, please make a video on structure core logging on Igneous rocks, I am your great fan as a teacher to me!!!
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Thank you. You are one of the most articulate and informative instructors that I've encountered. I will continue to follow you. Keep up the good work.
Thank you, Robyn! That means so much to me! ☺
thank you
I love the explanation for the rocks! I really love that you elaborate on the important things! Thank you so much, I’ll be coming back to this video many times
Amazing. Don't want to commit to sitting in class for 3 hours a week with homework and exams, so this is how I'm educating myself on geology. And I'd say you do a damn good job.
Mid-Atlantic ridge.
Great thanks
wow cool.i dont even geology
Excellent, clear, concise and informative, thank you Allison.comment
Great and helpful video! Thanks.
I think it is harder when you start your career to know the difference between sand, clay, silt and rock. Honestly you should make a video on it in the field.
Great idea, Isaac! I'm hoping to post some videos from the field in the future!
You're doing more good in the world than you realize
Interesting, thank you!
Thank you!
Great! Easy explanation of such fundamental stuff!
Thank you, a good explanation!
thank you, very useful and interesting!