Curated Video
Plate boundary
Boundaries where the Earth's tectonic plates meet, where crust can be made, destroyed, and deformed as adjacent plates move. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and concise...
Curated Video
What is an Earthquake?
The earth below our feet is continually moving. How do changes underground lead to effects on the surface, and what happens to change these movements into devastating earthquakes? Earth Science - Geology - Learning Points. Movement of...
Visual Learning Systems
Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks: Regional Metamorphism
This video explains how heat, pressure and chemical reactions may transform one type of rock into another. The formation and classification of metamorphic and igneous rocks is highlighted. Other terminology includes: extrusive rock,...
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Plate Boundaries
This video is about tectonic plates and plate boundaries. It explains the three main types of plate boundaries: convergent, divergent, and transform. The video also gives examples of each type of boundary and how they affect the Earth's...
Visual Learning Systems
Formation of Volcanic Mountains and Colliding Plates
This video discusses the formation of volcanic mountains and the role of lithospheric plate movement in this process. It explains how plates can interact with each other in different ways, such as moving away, towards, or sliding past...
Curated Video
Quake expert comment on significance of near-tsunami
1. Wide shot of seismologist John Philipe Avouac working in seismology lab at California Institute of Technology (CalTech)
2. Close-up of sign: "Seismology Lab"
3. Seismograph of earthquake
4. Close-up of Avouac
5. Close-up of his hand...
Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Plate Tectonics
This resource provides a video about plate tectonics.
Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Mid Ocean Ridges
Watch a video depicting the formation of a mid-ocean ridge. The resource also has two additional lessons requiring you to apply your knowledge of mid-ocean ridge location and formation.
Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Subduction Zones
This video explains the process of subduction between two oceanic plates as well as a continental plate and oceanic plate. Links to two additional subduction activities are also available.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Earthquakes: Thrust Fault
Quick, full color animation of a thrust fault, or a high-angle reverse fault.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Earthquakes: Blind Thrust Fault
A quick, animated illustration showing a blind thrust fault that does not rupture all the way up to Earth's surface.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Earthquakes: Horst & Graben
Brief animated illustration demonstrating the movement of a horst and graben fault during an earthquake.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Earthquakes: Normal Fault
Animated illustration demonstrates a normal fault, which is a dip-slip fault where the rock mass above the fault moves down.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Earthquakes: Strike Slip Fault
An animated illustration of a strike-slip fault. It shows the vertical fracture where the blocks of Earth have moved horizontally.
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Plate Boundary: Divergent (Fast Spreading Ridge)
A brief video illustrates how mid-ocean ridges form new crusts. Understand the process. [1:10]
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Earthquakes: Divergent Boundary
Nice, visual animation showing what happens under the Earth's surface at a divergent boundary.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Earthquakes: Elastic Rebound
This captioned animation describes the elastic rebound effect, which happens as a result of an earthquake.
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Tectonic (Lithospheric) Plates: Commonly Confused With Crust
Video lecture on four basic types of plate tectonic boundaries: divergent (spreading), transform (strike-slip), and convergent (subduction and continental collision) types of plate boundaries. [2:03]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Asperity on a Fault
Find out why faults don't just keep sliding past each other. [0:14]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Asperities on a Strike Slip Fault
Oblique view of a right-lateral strike-slip fault with multiple asperities. [0:27]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Subduction Zone: Simplified Model of Elastic Rebound
Oblique view of a highly generalized animation of a subduction zone where an oceanic plate is subducting beneath a continental plate. [0:27]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Fault: Left Lateral Strike Slip Fault With No Friction
Find out what happens if there is no friction between tectonic plates. [0:10]