Earth Sciences: Geology: Tectonics

View of the planet Earth from the USGS.

Tectonic modeling with finite elements: programs, publications, figures, and abstracts by Peter Bird of UCLA

Archive of articles and graphical data related to plate tectonics.

New Zealand ranks among the most active seismic places on earth: earthquakes occur there frequently and continuously. Detailed information with images, references, links, and books to buy.

A collection of web goodies on plate tectonics reconstructions; links, research, animations, movies, and software.

Web server for making on-line plate tectonic reconstructions. Includes access to paleomagnetic data and analyses.

Plate model and database allow users to make reconstructions from 750 Ma to present. From the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics.

Information from the British Geological Survey.

Dedicated to teaching the theory of plate tectonics.

Describes how investigators pursuing basic questions in ocean and terrestrial science gradually arrived at an understanding of how the planet's crust works.

PhD thesis on the active tectonics of Northeast Altai in central Asia focusing on structural geology, paleostress analysis, seismics and radon gas geochemistry.

NSF funded program which tries to understand the complex interplay of processes that govern the evolution of continental margins by a multidisciplinary approach, including seismicity and subduction processes.

Suggests that gravity effects of the sun and the moon on the Earth are a major factor in the occurrence of seismic activity.