My classes are starting a new unit next week, and I am trying to find some interactive websites that deal with tectonics/continental drift/fossil beds. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!
Joe
The USGS website has a lot of maps, although they aren’t interactive to my knowledge. I would try searching through their website.
Cool subject. One of my favorite topics. the Slow migration of continents. Right now I could think of siesmic activity monitoring sites i check in on. like global monitoring of eathquakes which mostly happen on tectonic faults :
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/
or California:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/step/
and then for fun and relaxation you can tune into the whale song site. thats kinda of a seismic anomoly. according to Hunt for Red October. but the Navy does do a lot of listening and records sounds of earth movements. Like fault zones.
thats all until i find some more. Good luck with the study program. Its an interesting one. Are you a teacher?
this looks promising for a school curiculum purchase.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/historical.html
links here.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/wegener.html
and continental drift animations:
http://www.scotese.com/newpage13.htm
a printable PDF?
http://www.wadsworthmedia.com/marketing/sample_chapters/0495011487_ch02.pdf
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