PLATE TECTONICS

 Black Smokers And Mid-Ocean Ridges   American Museum of Natural History Site

 The Virtual Earthquake  Have an earthquake and find the epicenter.

NEW!!! Virtual EARTHQUAKE    Excellent material here.

 Tsunami Simulation  Animate a tsunami.

Subduction Zone Tsunami  How a tsunami is caused

 Mt. Rainier's Deadly Potential  Lots of web links from this site too.

 Recent Quakes in the World

 Earth Science WEB Sites  GeoMan Mike Strickler has made an incredible web page!!!!!!

Types of Plate Boundaries MAP  Excellent map that may show up on a test!!

 This Dynamic Earth USGS Site for Plate Tectonics

 Tectonic Plates Map Map of Plates and their names

 Life at Ridge Giant Sea Clams picture!!!  Cool?!  Gross?!

 Life at Ridge Tubeworm Colony picture!!

 Plate Tectonics---the Cause of Earthquakes

 Seismic Waves Earthquake waves, epicenter location, good demos and graphics

 Richter Magnitude great page with newest magnitude research

 Recent California Earthquakes A map of up to the hour and week with Richter Scale values for each.

 San Francisco Earthquakes Last hour, day, week earthquakes and magnitudes of San Francisco.

 Earthquake Simulation  Savage Earth Site

 Plate Boundary Simulations Savage Earth Site

 Savage Earth Animations  P-wave, S-wave,L-wave, tsunami, plate collisions animated

 Resources for Earth Science Instruction

 Plate Tectonics some animations but they load slowly

 Plate Tectonics--The History of the Idea

 Plate Tectonics--The Mechanics

 Alfred Wegener Biographical information

 The Lithosphere and Asthenosphere  good graphic to explain the difference

 Continental Drift--the fossils

 Paleomagnetism some good diagrams

 Subduction graphic of subduction

 Plate Boundaries graphic of boundary map

 Types of Plate Motion good graphics with lithosphere and asthenosphere included

 USGS Site of Plate Tectonics lots here

 Mapof several Boundaries

 Map of the Tectonic Plates great map