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Free-air gravity
Free-air gravity (Sandwell & Smith 1997, v. 18.1) (PDF - 47Mb)

Pangea
Pangea (PDF)

100 m.y. into the future
100 m.y. into the future

Present-day plate boundaries
Present-day plate boundaries
Please reference this map as:
Topography and Predicted Bathymetry of the World with Present-day Plate Boundaries, 1999. Plate boundaries are from the PLATES Project digital data compilation. Topography/predicted bathymetry data are from Smith, W. and Sandwell, D. (Science, vol. 277, pp. 1956-1962) plotted using the GMT mapping software (Wessel and Smith, 1991, EOS, Transactions AGU, vol. 72, pp. 441, 445-444). Map produced at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, 1999.
PDF version

Transform Fault
Transform Fault

Spreading Ridge
Spreading Ridge

Subduction Zone
Subduction Zone
(Trench)

Texas Topography
Texas. PDF version

Earthquakes and Volcanos
Earthquakes and Volcanos (PDF)

Hawaiian hotspot
Hawaiian hotspot

Texas topography
Texas topography - pdf version

Plate reconstructions showing the tectonic evolution of Texas
The Making of Texas (poster produced in 1999)