LINKS TO PLATE TECTONICS
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http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu/education/student/continental_puzzle.html
To use this interactive puzzle, move the continents around by clicking on and
dragging them to the desired location. Plate segments can also be rotated with
the rotation wheel. The "Pangea On" button turns on an underlayer that outlines
the ancient continent of Pangea.
http://www.whoi.edu/science/divediscover/hottopics/biogeo.html
This site covers Hydrothermal Vents and Biogeography. This site offers many
teaching resources in Oceanography, Plate tectonics, Earth's History and many
others.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tectonics/intro.html
Interactive way to teach yourself plate tectonics
http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov
Official names and locations for mountains, craters, and other surface features
of our neighboring planes and their moons
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html
Plate Tectonics animation
http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc
Online map creation: Map any part of the world in various
projection types (Mercator, polar stereographic,...) and stamp it
with tectonic features.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/space/cgm/cgm.html
Calculate geomagnetic coordinates
http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html
This Dynamic Earth: The story of plate tectonics
from USGS
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/study/CrustalStructure
Models of the Crustal Structure and much more from
the U.S. Gov
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/PlateTectonics/framework.html
Plate Tectonics and Sea Floor Spreading
http://www.consrv.ca.gov/cgs/index.htm
Dept. of Conservation California Geology
Magazine's: California has it's Faults
http://www.geo.cornell.edu/geology/eos/old_eos/eos/Candes.html
Cornell Andes Project: You can choose the latitude
and longitude to match your earthquake data
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/great_lakes/MCRS/
Stratigraphy, Structure, and Ore deposits of the
Southern Limb of the Mid-Continental Rift
System
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2231/dfs.html
The Denali Fault System: an interior strike slip structure
responding to dextral and sinistral shear coupling
http://www.mantleplumes.org
Debate on mantle plumes
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/template.cfm?name=NakedEmperor
Britain's Geological Society debate on mantle plumes
http://www.math.montana.edu/~nmp/materials/ess/geosphere/index.html
Network Montana Project: activities on plate
tectonics, including hot spots
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~shirschf/page1.html
Strike-slip, contraction, and Neogene
paleogeographies in the
greater San Francisco Bay area
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/global_grav_large.gif
Map Sea Level
http://www.pbs.org/wghb/aso/tryit/tectonics/intro.html
Introduction to Plate Tectonic Theory
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/
The Savage Earth: information regarding earthquakes,
volcanoes, and other natural features of the earth
http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html
This Dynamic Earth: View of the
Planet from the USGS
http://www.scotese.com/
The Paleo Map Project: Illustrates plate tectonic development of
the Ocean basins and continents and changing distribution of land
and sea during the past 1100 million years
http://www.seismo.berkeley.edu/~pepe
Links to many convection sites, including models
of mantle heat
http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/plate-tectonics.html
Plate Tectonic, the Cause of
Earthquakes
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/techist.html
Plate Tectonics: The Rocky History of an Idea
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tecmech.html
Plate Tectonics: The Mechanism
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html
Animated: The last 750 million years of plate
tectonics
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Geology/webdogs/plates/reconstructions.html
WebDogs Virtual Plates: Reconstructions
http://www.mantleplumes.org
Mantle Plumes
http://www.mines.utah.edu/~ggapps/plate/plate.html
Rotate Africa back to South America through the past 135 million years
http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu/people/weldon.html
Tectonic evolution of the Atlas Mountains, North Africa
http://seis.natsci.csulb.edu/VIRTUAL_FIELD/Cajon_Pass/cajtext.htm
The natural convergence of the Pacific and North American Plates along
the Cajon Pass, courtesy of CSULB
http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/usgsnps/pltec/converge.html
Plate Tectonics in our National Parks
http://online.redwoods.cc.ca.us/depts/science/earth/patpt/patpt.htm
Geology of Patrick's Point State Park (brief with some pretty pictures and
and description of the Franciscan Formation and marine terrace deposits.
http://seis.natsci.csulb.edu/VIRTUAL_FIELD/Mecca/mectext.htm
The Mecca/Salton Trough: divergent tectonic plate motion.
http://sepwww.stanford.edu/oldsep/joe/fault_images/BayAreaSanAndreasFault.html
San Andreas Fault
http://online.redwoods.cc.ca.us/depts/science/earth/smith/smith.htm
Geology of the Smith River, CA: Josephine Ophiolite.
