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Plate Tectonics

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  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) star
      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

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