CAPTION - Supercontinent Aggregation and Dispersal

Plate-Mantle Coupling and Continental Flooding.

This animation shows what would happen to the topography of a continent and relative sea level change as the continental plate interacted with mantle convection. The front panel shows the temperature within the convecting mantle in distance across the top and depth. As the movie progress, time progresses and the size of the box grows. The top surface is the topography on the top and the green regions are ontinenta and the brown is ocean floor. The transparent blue surface is the water surface.

This animation was a supplement to a paper which appeared in 1990 (see below). A supplemental video was published by the American Geophysical Union (no longer available) with this paper. This supplement was the first animation published by the American Geophysical Union.

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Reference

Gurnis, M., Plate-mantle coupling and continental flooding, Geophysical Research Letters 17, 623-626, 1990.

Additional references of related material can be found here.

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