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Other Plate Tectonic Links

PLATES' homepage.

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

Plate tectonic indices
http://www.ibg.uit.no/geologi/G-link/plate.html (Department of Geology at University of Tromsø)
http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/links/teach/earthteach.html (KNOWLEDGE 1: Links for Mineralogists; Mineralogisches Institut Würzburg)

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

http://plates.uchicago.edu/ - University of Chicago

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

Education Links for plate tectonics and associated topics.
Time-scale with fossils

USGS Kids' Earthquake Page

Geology, Meteorology and Oceanography (training sessions for teaching plate tectonics)

"Integrated Earth Science for Teachers" on-line course http://www.telecampus.utsystem.edu/index.cfm/4,1358,82,97,html.

See where you live - http://www.globexplorer.com

Dietmar Müller's movies.

http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/education/teach_guide/ (NASA's Observatorium Teacher's Guides)

http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html ("This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics" by Kious & Tilling)

http://www.rasmussen.edu/articles/beginners-guide-to-plate-tectonics.asp plate tectonics for the beginner

http://www.hartrao.ac.za/geodesy/Plate.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.

Dietmar Müller's homepage - with movies.

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.wcrl.ars.usda.gov/cec/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://ofgs.ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~okino/platecalc_new.html - plate motion calculator

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

http://www.ig.utexas.edu/CaribPlate/CaribPlate.html (Origin of the Caribbean Plate)


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