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Plate Tectonics

Lists

1. Plate Tectonics Resources (Harris)
   Provides 20 sources of information. 3-01
2. Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes (Bowerman)
   Provides over two dozen resources.

Papers

1. -Plate Tectonics (USGS)
   Provides a comprehensive description of plate movement, including examples. 2-01
2. Earth in the Future - Pangea Ultima (NASA - Baum)
   Provides an explanation of plate tectonics and how the continents are expected to collide into one continent in the distant future. 9-00
3. Plate Tectonics (ThinkQuest)
   Provides well organized and indepth information on plate tectonics.
4. Plate Tectonics - Animated Geological History (Berkeley)
   Displays how plates looked in the past. 1-00
5. Plate Tectonics - Himalayan Mountains (USGS)
   Provides a history of the collision of the plate carrying India with Asia, forming the Himalayan Mountains.
6. Plate Tectonics - History of the Theory (Berkeley)
   Provides a detailed history. 1-00
7. Plate Tectonics - History of the Theory (Volcano World)
   Provides a very short history. 1-00
8. Plate Tectonics - History of the Theory, Alfred Wegener (Berkeley)
   Provides a biography of the man who is credited greatly for the theory of plate tectonics, as well as a history of the development of the theory. 1-00
9. Plate Tectonics - The Mechanism (Berkeley)
   Describes how plate tectonics operate and includes diagrams. 1-00
10. Plate Tectonics - The Mechanism (Volcano World)
    Describes and illustrates how plate tectonics operate. 1-00
11. Plate Tectonics - The Theory (U.S. Geological Survey)
    Provides graphics and explanations. Rather comprehensive. 1-00
12. Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes (Louie)
    Provides graphics, photos, and explanations. Rather comprehensive.
13. Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes (Wheeling Jesuit University)
    Provides a graphic of the world, including convergent, divergent, and transform plate boundaries.
14. Plate Tectonics and Global Warming (Scientific American - Hoffman and Schrag)
    Describes a theory that the earth went through very cold and very hot periods in the past, destroying almost all life in the process. Four times the earth may have been a "snowball." 1-00
15. Plate Tectonics and Rock Sequences
    Provides a cross section of rocks that are similar across continents.

Projects

1. Earth Science - Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics
   Provides exercises using real earthquake data to help understand both the moving plates and their relationship to earthquakes.
2. Plate Movement Model (U.S. Geological Survey - Lahr)
   Provides instructions on building a model to show the movement of tectonic plates. 3-01