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Plate Tectonics

Plate Tectonics is Earth's own internal combustion engine. But to fully appreciate Plate Tectonics, you need to know about Geologic Time and Geology itself . . .

For Earthquakes, Tsunamis, volcanoes and Super-volcanoes, visit the Geo-Hazards page →

Interactive Plate Tectonics

Continental Drift and Alfred Wegener

Plate Movement and Boundaries

Plate Tectonics Illustrations

Evidence

GeoHazards - EQs, Volcanoes, etc.

Plate Tectonics Illustrations

gEarth files – Plate Tectonics

Journey to the Centre of the Earth
(Earth Rocks! 9:55)

Discovery of plate tectonics, seafloor spreading & subduction
(Earth.Parts#1: 11:15)

Animated Maps: Plate Tectonics
(Map version followed by globe version)
(ESRI 1:27)

Why there's a ring of disasters around the Pacific
(VOX: 6:34)

Interactive Plate Tectonics

ACTIVITY

Divergent, convergent and transform!
ESRI ArcGIS

Earth's Structure and Plate Tectonics
Learner.org

hhmi EarthViewer

EarthViewer is an interactive visualization of Earth through the eons, eras and periods. Students move through time periods to see directly how Earth has changed. But it's not just about Plate Tectonics. EarthViewer connects changes on Earth with biological events, mass extinctions, and impact events. As well, there are a number of in-depth pop-ups for the Greenhouse Effect, Mass Extinctions, Plate Tectonics and a number of other related topics.

Continental Drift and Alfred Wegener

Continental Drift over Time (USGS)

Continental Drift Animation
250mya - Present

Jean Besse, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris via Caltech

Continental Drift from Pangaea to Today (ESRI 1:30)

Continental Drift and Alfred Wegener (Mike Sammartano 11:14)

Plate Movement and Boundaries

Earth Layers (to 3:35) and Isostacy
(Earth Rocks! 6:34)

Plate Tectonics Basics
(Earth Rocks! 11:39)

Plate Tectonics
(BBC Geography 4:12)

How India Crashed into Asia and Changed the World
(Think English 9:06)

1 billion years of plate movement in 40 seconds (EarthBytes)

Earth's Tectonic Plates
Wiki

Tectonic Activity Map showing rates of plate movement

Smithsonian: Eruptions, Earthquakes and Emissions Interactive Map and Timeline

Eatrio.net: Map of Pangaea with Current International Borders

Plate Tectonics Illustrations

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