The Earth Through Time, 10th Edition
by Harold L. Levin
CHAPTER 7—PLATE TECTONICS UNDERLIES ALL EARTH
HISTORY
Web Links
This Dynamic Earth
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/dynamic.html
This Dynamic Earth, the story of plate tectonics. From the U.S. Geological
Survey.
Virtual Earthquake
http://www.sciencecourseware.org/VirtualEarthquake/
An interactive program to teach you how earthquake epicenters are located and
how earthquake magnitudes are determined.
Plate Tectonics Animations
http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/usgsnps/animate/pltecan.html
Plate tectonics animations from the U.S. Geological Survey.
What on Earth is plate tectonics?
http://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/parks/pltec/
Introduction to plate tectonics from the U.S. Geological Survey and the National
Park Service.
Savage Earth
http://www.wnet.org/savageearth/animations/hellscrust/main.html
Series of animations to accompany PBS documentary on the structure of the
Earth, plate tectonics, volcanic eruptions, tsunami, faults, types of earthquake
waves.
Keck Geology Consortium Structural Geology Slide Set
http://www.eos.ubc.ca/public/resources/slidesets/keck/keck.html
A collection of 100 slides of various structural geology features. compiled by H.
Robert Burger, Smith College with the support of the W. M. Keck Foundation,
Los Angeles. The database was developed by the Department of Earth and
Ocean Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Plate Tectonics and Volcanoes
http://www.mnh.si.edu/earth/text/4_0_0.html
Interactive Smithsonian site for plate tectonics and volcano education.
Fault Motion
http://www.iris.edu/gifs/animations/faults.htm
Animations of fault motions, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
(IRIS).
Faults
http://www.iris.washington.edu/gifs/slides/faults/slideshow/index.htm
Photographic images of faults from the NOAA/National Geophysical Data Center,
on the IRIS website.
Folds and Faults
http://www-class.unl.edu/geol101i/09_structural.htm
Folds and faults explained and illustrated in the field and in diagrams.
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