Paleogeography and Paleoclimatology
Links
Paleogeography of the Southwestern US
http://vishnu.glg.nau.edu/rcb/paleogeogwus.html
Maps showing period-by-period reconstructions of the paleogeography of Southwest United States.
Paleomap
Virtual reality reconstructions illustrating 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.
ODSN Plate Tectonic Reconstruction Service
http://www.odsn.de/odsn/services/paleomap/paleomap.html
Ocean Drilling Stratigraphic Network (ODNS) interactive tool to calculate platetectonic reconstructions of any age back to 150 My.
Geology Resources at Colorado University
http://www.colorado.edu/GeolSci/Resources/
Paleogeography "movies" of the southwestern United States and the western hemisphere based upon maps made at Northern Arizona by Ron Blakely.
NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html
Paleoclimate data, research, and education.
Caribbean Tectonic Reconstructions
http://www.fiu.edu/orgs/caribgeol/Caribreconstr.html
Reconstructions of the Caribbean at various times in the geologic past (past 200 million years)
Global Earth History
http://vishnu.glg.nau.edu/rcb/globaltext.html
A series of plate-tectonic reconstructions to show the broad patterns of Phanerozoic Earth history.
Paleoclimatology and Climatology Resources
http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/climatology.html
Links to publications, software, and data pertinent to paleoclimate research.
Ocean Drilling Program - JANUS Database
http://www-odp.tamu.edu/database/
Database includes paleontological, lithostratigraphic, chemical, physical, sedimentological, and geophysical data for ocean sediments and hard rocks.
Global Analysis, Interpretation, and Modelling
The goal of GAIM is to advance the study of the coupled dynamics of the Earth system using as tools both data and models.
PAGES
International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) on paleoclimatology.
Lithologic, Paleogeographic, and Paleocurrent Maps of the World
Offers images of time slices of different ages of the Earth.
Pangea Coring Workshop
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~polsen/nbcp/pangeafinalreport.html
Announcement and description of an international workshop on a climatic, biotic, and tectonic transect, pole-to-pole, across the early Mesozoic supercontinent, June 1999. Updated regularly.
Friends of Palaeobiogeography
http://www.paleobiogeography.org/
International scientific working group dealing with the geographical distributions of organisms through geological time.
Evolution of the Colorado River and its Tributaries
http://www.durangobill.com/Paleorivers_preface.html
Article introducing a model for the evolution of the Colorado River and the origin of the Grand Canyon.