PLATES Project

Below are listed some other links for plate tectonics. The first group of links is for school-age children. The second should appeal to those in more advanced research.

General Geology
Bryan Aivazian's Science Visualization Home Page

Images of hazards to people
http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/tectonics.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/earthq3/when.html

Other plate reconstruction sites
http://www.odsn.de/ - ODSN interactive reconstructions

http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~rowley/Rowley/Paleogeographic_Atlas_Project.html - University of Chicago - Paleogeographic Atlas Project Maps

http://www.scotese.com - Chris Scotese's website

Education Links for plate tectonics and associated topics.

Hotspot Movie and Plate Spreading Movie by Jared Kluesner

Time-scale with fossils

USGS Kids' Earthquake Page

Home Preparedness - What to do in an Earthquake

Information on How to Prepare for an Earthquake (in Spanish)

The Earthquake Resource Guide

EarthByte's movies.

NASA's Observatorium Teacher's Guides

"This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics" by Kious & Tilling

http://www.rasmussen.edu/student-life/online-community/beginners-guide-to-plate-tectonics/ plate tectonics for the beginner

http://www.hartrao.ac.za/geodesy/tectonics.html (from Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory)

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html (Museum of Paleontology, Univ. of California, Berkeley)

http://welcome.to/geologycentral (Geology Central - Virtual Geology Field Trips and Geology Links)

 

Advanced Studies: Plate tectonics links and other interesting geoscience links.

http://www.onlineengineeringdegree.com/resources/online-earthquake-and-engineering-information/ Online Earthquake and Engineering Information

http://www.bestedsites.com/astronomysites Astronomy and Space Resource

http://topex.ucsd.edu/marine_topo/mar_topo.html (seafloor and land topography data, Sandwell et al.)

http://topex.ucsd.edu/marine_grav/mar_grav.html (marine gravity data, Sandwell et al.)

http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/ (GMT: Generic Mapping Tools)

http://www.chemical-ecology.net/java/lat-long.htm "Surface Distance Between Two Points of Latitude and Longitude"

http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/distance.html "Distance and Azimuths Between 2 Sets of Coordinates"

http://sps.unavco.org/crustal_motion/dxdt/model/ - UNAVCO plate motion calculator

http://www.fiu.edu/orgs/caribgeol/ (Caribbean geology)