Tectonics Websites

Plates movements. The theories that scientists have used to explain these movements.

View of the planet Earth from the USGS.

Information from the British Geological Survey.

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.

Offering Paleomagnetic core orientation and paleomagnetic services including paleomagnetic fracture orientation, fracture studies in fractured reservoirs, and paleomagnetic orientation of in-situ stress.

Interesting animations of plate tectonics movement. Including gif, avi and mov formats.

Plate tectonics. Types of plate boundaries. Sources of plate motion.

Dorian J. Burnette writes about how continental movement plate tectonics have a profound impact on the climate of the Earth.

Full and clear information about Plate Tectonics: Convergent Boundaries, Divergent Boundaries, Transform Boundaries.

This site provides useful information about tectonics: the origin of plate tectonics, indications of tectonic activity, age of the sea floor.

Diagrams of tectonics of the North Pacific and the west coast of North America.

Lectures on Plate Tectonics by Mark W. Williams (University of Colorado at Boulder).

This article is about Plate Tectonic Evolution written by Martin Meschede and Udo Barckhausen.

Tectonic Evolution of the Atlas Mountains, North Africa. Research page with links to related resources.

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

Set up to measure crustal deformation in a tectonically active area, improve estimates of the earthquake hazard in southern California, and serve as a testing ground for new geophysical instrumentation.

Real time seismic data for view or download from the Anza network in Southern California.

Dr. Peter Langdon Ward has made a detailed analysis of the geology of western North America in relation to the motion of plates in the eastern Pacific Ocean. He also discusses earthquakes and global climate change.

Tectonics contains original scientific contributions in analytical, synthetic, and integrative tectonics. Papers are restricted to the structure and evolution of the terrestrial lithosphere with dominant emphasis on the continents.