Earth Science "picture of the day" - Earthquakes - Mid ocean ridges and vent fauna - Palaeogeographic maps - Plate tectonics general - Active deformation - More links
NASA's daily dose of cool images - complete with a back-catalogue.
Excellent site run by the IRIS consortium (Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology) which is updated constantly. Has downloadable maps of recent earthquakes (including past 24 hours). The "past 365 days" map gives a one-year snap-shot which brings out the plate boundaries. The education resources are awesome with animations, downloadable notes, images. There are links to other sites too. Overall - hard to beat!
http://www.iris.washington.edu/
The NeMO website has animations of earthquake swarms and pictures of fauna too. Lots on volcanic processes.
http://newport.pmel.noaa.gov/nemo_cruise98/multimedia.html
The US public broadcast service has stuff on "life at the abyss" at:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/abyss/
If you want to see how the deep sea can be visited then why not visit the Alvin web site at:
http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=8422
The site of the Paleomap Project, co-ordinated by Chris Scotese at the University of Texas at Arlington, offers this website. Gives lots of views of the global arrangement of continents and oceans back through geologic time. Also an on-line shop for maps! http://www.scotese.com/
This Dynamic Earth: The story of plate tectonics.
An educational resource of the United States Geological Survey. As with all popular US web sites, this can get very slow during US day time. Plan your visit accordingly. There's loads of information and graphics. You'll find this useful for all sorts of aspects.
Berkeley Tectonics teaching page
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html
Has a bunch of information including a brief essay on the history of plate tectonics and some elementary ideas explained.
The NERC Space geodesy site has basic information on SLR including pictures of the satellites and information on how SLR works.
This is an excellent introduction to the Global Positioning System and its use in studying active tectonics. The presentation on the 1994 Northridge earthquake (California) is an excellent illustration of how GPS surveys, SAR and seismology come together to chart of the earth deforms - complete with animations.
The following sites can be used to find yet more resources on the web - but beware: as with all surfing you can waste hours trying to find something specific! As ever, most of the material lives on servers on the west side of the Atlantic - so are best accessed from Europe during their night!
The Virtual Geosciences Professor
John Butler's (no relation) site designed primarily to support lecturers. Has links to lots of places from it - a good way to track down course notes are curricula from lots of other schools.
http://www.uh.edu/~jbutler/anon/anonfield.html
The Structures page - University of Alberta, Canada
Developed by John Waldron, this site supports their in-house course. There is a small selection of top links to sites - some of which you'll find on the main listing here.
http://www.ualberta.ca/~jwaldron/structurespage.html
Intute
General linking hub for information. Probably most useful for breaking earth science stories.
The earth science gateway has loads of links if you enter "tectonics" into the search engine.
http://www.intute.ac.uk/earthsciences/
Earth Science "picture of the day" - Earthquakes - Mid ocean ridges and vent fauna - Palaeogeographic maps - Plate tectonics general - Active deformation - More links
Last update: 9th October 2011