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28 January 2007

Smithsonian Institution - Global Volcanism Program: Worldwide Holocene Volcano and Eruption Information

Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program seeks better understanding of all volcanoes through documenting their eruptions — small as well as large — during the past 10,000 years.

Jarmo Moilanen´s WWW-site - List of probable Impact craters

* PROVEN (!?) impact structures * Impact related geological layers * PROBABLE impact structures * SUGGESTED and POSSIBLE impact structures * POSSIBLE impact structures from X-SAR images * DISCREDITED structures

25 January 2007

Public Library of Science

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The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource. Our goals are to: * Open the doors to the world's library of scien

Plate Tectonics : Earthview

ntroduction In the Beginning The Tectonic Plates Mount St. Helen How Plates Move Plate Boundaries A Changing Earth Pangaea - All Lands Mid-Ocean Ridges An Ocean is Born The Birth of an Island Mountain Ranges Subduction Zones Island Arcs The

Welcome to the British Geological Survey (BGS) website

As a public sector organisation we are responsible for advising the UK government on all aspects of geoscience as well as providing impartial geological advice to industry, academia and the public. The BGS is a component organisation of the Natural Enviro

Tectonics Links

This site is designed to be a starting point for looking up information related to tectonics. It was created as a result of a project in GEOL 605, Global Tectonics, taught by Eric Nelson and Warren Hamilton. Happy Hunting!

Plate Tectonics, the Cause of Earthquakes

The plates consist of an outer layer of the Earth, the lithosphere, which is cool enough to behave as a more or less rigid shell. Occasionally the hot asthenosphere of the Earth finds a weak place in the lithosphere to rise buoyantly as a plume, or hotspo

Plate tectonics animations

These animations were originally produced for the US Geological Survey video Secrets in Stone. They have been converted to animated gifs for web display. You may use these animations for any educational purpose, we simply request that you cite the US Geol

A Science Odyssey: You Try It: Plate Tectonics

Even though the theory of continental drift was proposed in 1912 by Alfred Wegener, the idea of moving continents wasn't generally accepted until the early 1960s. That's when Wegener's theory was resurrected by Harry Hess, Robert Dietz, Fred Vine, and Dru