http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/slabs.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/continents.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/inside.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/Farallon.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/baseball.html
Magnetic striping
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/developing.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/zones.html
Four types of plate boundaries:
Divergent boundaries -- where new crust is
generated as the plates pull away from each other.
Convergent boundaries -- where crust is destroyed
as one plate dives under another.
Transform boundaries -- where crust is neither
produced nor destroyed as the plates slide
horizontally past each other.
Plate boundary zones -- broad belts in which
boundaries are not well defined and the effects of
plate interaction are unclear.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/understanding.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/Vigil.html
Divergent boundaries
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/understanding.html
Map of East Africa showing some of the historically active volcanoes (red triangles) and the
Afar Triangle (shaded, center) -- a so-called triple junction (or triple point), where three
plates are pulling away from one another: the Arabian Plate, and the two parts of the
African Plate (the Nubian and the Somalian) splitting along the East African Rift Zone.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/East_Africa.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/understanding.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/fire.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/understanding.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/understanding.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/understanding.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/understanding.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/understanding.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/hotspots.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/hotspots.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/unanswered.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/tectonics.html
References and Resources
“This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics”
W. Jacquelyne Kious & Robert I. Tilling
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/dynamic.html
This Dynamic Planet (interactive world map)
http://mineralsciences.si.edu/tdpmap/
This Dynamic Planet: A Teaching Companion
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/about/edu/dynamicplanet/
Plate Tectonics Animations
http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/usgsnps/animate/pltecan.html