Lists
- Provides over two dozen resources.
Papers
- Provides a drawing of the movement of plates throughout the world. Also provides more detailed drawings of areas of the world, but some of the detailed drawings are large files.
- Provides an overview of plate tectonics and describes NAS's work in making our picture more complete and accurate.
- Provides well organized and indepth information on plate tectonics.
- Provides a comprehensive description of plate movement, including examples.
- Displays how plates looked in the past. 1-00
- Provides a history of the collision of the plate carrying India with Asia, forming the Himalayan Mountains.
- Provides a detailed history. 1-00
- Provides a very short history. 1-00
- 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
- Describes how plate tectonics operate and includes diagrams. 1-00
- Describes and illustrates how plate tectonics operate. 1-00
- Provides graphics and explanations. Rather comprehensive. 1-00
- Provides graphics, photos, and explanations. Rather comprehensive.
- Provides a graphic of the world, including convergent, divergent, and transform plate boundaries.
- 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
- Provides a cross section of rocks that are similar across continents.
Projects
- Provides exercises using real earthquake data to help understand both the moving plates and their relationship to earthquakes.