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This Dynamic Earth - the Story of Plate Tectonics
Jacquelyne Kious, Robert I. Tilling
In the early 1960s, the emergence of the theory of plate tectonics started a revolution in the earth sciences. Since then, scientists have verified and refined this theory, and now have a much better understanding of how our planet has been shaped by plate-tectonic processes. We now know that, directly or indirectly, plate tectonics influences nearly all geologic processes, past and present. Indeed, the notion that the entire Earth's surface is continually shifting has profoundly changed the way we view our world.

• Preface

• Historical perspective

• Developing the theory

• Understanding plate motions

• "Hotspots": Mantle thermal plumes

• Some unanswered questions

• Plate tectonics and people

• Endnotes

http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html

Plattentektonik
Jürgen Becker - becker@nefkom.net
Von Pangäa bis zum heutigen Erdantlitz: Mit den beiden Knöpfen Vorwärts und Rückwärts kannst du zwischen 6 verschiedenen Bildern hin- und herschalten. Dieses Beispiel funktioniert nur mit JavaScript 1.1 (z.B. Netscape Navigator 3.0).
http://emmy.nettec.de/mek/ek5/platten/platten.htm

Tectonics and Geological Timescales
Linksammlung.
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~rpatzig/seismik/tekton.html

ODSN Plate Tectonic Reconstruction Service
This is the platetectonic reconstruction service. In this section you can calculate platetectonic reconstructions of any age back to 150 My. Please read the reference information for more info on how these maps are calculated and what data is used. There's also a reference you might want to cite if you use one of these maps for a publication. An animation (330 kb) using 5 my timesteps is available too (this is a new one, the old on is still here). Be aware it might take a while to download. The rotating earth above shows a 65 My reconstruction in an orthographic projection.

For more information about how to use this mapping system, consult the manual page or the links in the form. For other www-sites with plate tectonic information, look here. If numerical ages don't mean anything to you, visit the timescale at the UCMP in Berkley.You can get interesting information on any geologic era there.
http://www.odsn.de/odsn/services/paleomap/paleomap.html

Paleomap Project
Christopher R. Scotese - info@scotese.com
The goal of the PALEOMAP Project is to illustrate the plate tectonic development of the ocean basins and continents, as well as the changing distribution of land and sea during the past 1100 million years.

• In the Earth History section of this website are full-color paleogeographic maps showing the ancient mountain ranges and shorelines, active plate boundaries, and the extent of paleoclimatic belts.
  

• In the Climate History section is a discussion of how and why the Earth's climate has changed through time.
  
• Future Maps showing positions of continents in the future and formation of "Pangea Ultima"

http://www.scotese.com/

Plate Tectonics
Earth's continental landmasses, upon which we live, may be thought of as ships drifting upon a sea, propelled wherever the currents take them. This slow voyage of the continents has reshaped the face of the Earth throughout its history.

Scientists have investigated the theory of plate tectonics (which states that the Earth's crust is made of several plates, each moving independently of the others) for many years. Studies by NASA and radio astronomy sites around the world support this theory.
http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/earth/tectonics/Tectonics1.html

Continental Drift
Animation zur Kontinentalverschiebung. Mit einem Überblick über die einzelnen Epochen der Erdgeschichte.

Click on any of the four colored regions to the left for a paleontological history of each era. Animation built from images provided by: Christopher R. Scotese PALEOMAP Project U. Texas at Arlington

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/anim1.html