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Create a model to illustrate geologic events responsible for changes in the earth's crust 0507.7.1
Links verified 9/19/2014
- Animations - Plate Tectonics animation
- Animations in the form of PowerPoint shows are available from the PLATES project at the University of Texas.
- History - Plate Tectonics: The Rocky History of an Idea
- How the Plates Move - a lesson from Volcano World [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
- Mechanisms - explanation of the driving forces behind plate tectonics
- Paleomap Earth History maps
- Paleomap VR animations
- Pangaea to the Present - a study of the history of the Earth's tectonic plates. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
- Science Odyssey: You Try It: Plate Tectonics - A hands-on exercise about plate tectonics and earthquakes from PBS. (requires Shockwave plug-in)
- Observe the break up of Pangaea - This animation shows how the locations of continents and islands have changed over the past 150 million years.
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