|
|
|
MacOrogeny is an interactive program for the Macintosh that illustrates
the major orogenic (mountain-building) events effecting North America in
the past 500 million years. MacOrogeny was developed in the early 90s by
Professor Bruce Tiffney with the assistance of several students, and is
curently only available for the Macintosh. If there is sufficient interest,
we will create a cross-platform version of the program. To express your
interest, E-mail the Cybercurator (cybercurator@magic.geol.ucsb.edu).
Since this program is in "Beta-test-stage", if you discover any glitches
(and Murphy's Law dictates that you will), we would appreciate your communicating
them to the cybercurator. . |
|
| MacOrogeny
Download Page 1.7MB |
 Full-size image 16K |
Each orogeny is illustrated with animated plate motion diagrams. The diagrams illustrate the motion of the plates involved, the effects of changing sea-level and tectonic uplift, the areas of active mountain building, erosion and deposition, plus a running timescale. | |
|
Additional information for each orogeny is provided by
detailed diagrams and explanations of key features.
|
 Full-size image 16K |
|
 Full-size image 16K |
MacOrogeny features an integrated geologic time scale accessible from each plate motion animation. | |
| MacOrogeny also features an illustrated glossary of key terms and concepts used. |  Full-size image 16K |
|
[People]
[Research]
[Resources]
[Alumni] [Life] [Graduate] [Undergrad] [Outreach] [IntraWeb] University of California, Santa Barbara—Department of Geological Sciences Copyright © 1998-2005 Regents of the University of California Send your comments to the Web Page Editor |