Education and science
Watching an animation gives a much better perspective of geodynamics than can be obtained from verbal description or static maps and drawings, even for specialists in this field. There are many details that could be used to refine this model, and much information that is too detailed to show at this scale.

All the data we have is in digital format, however, and can be examined or extended at much larger scales for specific purposes. Do contact us if you have information - particularly published information - to contribute, or if we can help solve your local problem starting from its global context and promote scientific understanding at the same time.

Reference
Smith, W.H.F. and Sandwell, D., 1997. Measured and estimated seafloor topography (version 4.2), World Data Center A for Marine Geology and Geophysics research publication RP-1, poster 34" x 53".

Credits
We thank Scripps Institute of Oceanography for providing digital sea-floor topographic data. This was processed to a map format using Geosoft software and interpreted at ITC. Image display and digitising of the interpretation was carried out by Eveline Rosendaal. The digitised interpretation was ascribed to the relevant plates and displayed using Atlas and Timetrek software provided by Cambridge Paleomap Services Limited. Assistance from Alan Smith, Roy Livermore and Lawrence Rush in Cambridge is gratefully acknowledged. Chris Scotese (University of Texas) provided advice and digital data on marine magnetic anomalies that significantly improved earlier versions of the model.

Various aspects of the work were assisted by B.K.Sahu (India), Cenk Yardimcilar (Turkey), Sergio Chavez Gomez (Cuba), A.G.S.R. Perera (Sri Lanka), Orlando Hernandez (Columbia), Julius Nyakaana (Uganda), Vedastus Ntulanalwo (Tanzania), Pieter van Heiningen (The Netherlands) and Mubu S. Mubu (Zambia) during their studies at ITC.

Animation software and website development (April 2000) by Barend Köbben of ITC.

The scientific aspects of the work have been published in Terra Nova () under the joint authorship of Colin Reeves (ITC) and Maarten de Wit (University of Cape Town). Enquiries are welcomed at reeves.earth@planet.nl

The work was supported financially by the ITC Internal Research Fund.