Plate Tectonics (14)

Quaternary Paleoclimate (12)

Websites in Paleogeography and Paleoclimatology

1. Caribbean Tectonic Reconstructions
   Reconstructions of the Caribbean at various times in the geologic past (past 200 million years)
   http://www.fiu.edu/orgs/caribgeol/Caribreconstr.html
   
   
2. Evolution of the Colorado River and its Tributaries
   Article introducing a model for the evolution of the Colorado River and the origin of the Grand Canyon.
   http://www.durangobill.com/Paleorivers_preface.html
   
   
3. Friends of Palaeobiogeography
   International scientific working group dealing with the geographical distributions of organisms through geological time.
   http://www.paleobiogeography.org/
   
   
4. Geology Resources at Colorado University
   Paleogeography "movies" of the southwestern United States and the western hemisphere based upon maps made at Northern Arizona by Ron Blakely.
   http://www.colorado.edu/GeolSci/Resources/
   
   
5. Global Analysis, Interpretation, and Modelling
   The goal of GAIM is to advance the study of the coupled dynamics of the Earth system using as tools both data and models.
   http://gaim.sr.unh.edu/
   
   
6. Global Earth History
   A series of plate-tectonic reconstructions to show the broad patterns of Phanerozoic Earth history.
   http://vishnu.glg.nau.edu/rcb/globaltext.html
   
   
7. Himalayan Interdisciplinary Paleoclimate Project
   Research into the paleoclimatology of the Himalayan mountains, focused on understanding changes in the Indian and Plateau monsoons over the past 2000 years, 20,000 years, and beyond.
   http://www.ccrc.sr.unh.edu/hipp/hipphp.html
   
   
8. Lithologic, Paleogeographic, and Paleocurrent Maps of the World
   Offers images of time slices of different ages of the Earth.
   http://geology.swau.edu/
   
   
9. NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
   Paleoclimate data, research, and education.
   http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html
   
   
10. ODSN Plate Tectonic Reconstruction Service
    Ocean Drilling Stratigraphic Network (ODNS) interactive tool to calculate platetectonic reconstructions of any age back to 150 My.
    http://www.odsn.de/odsn/services/paleomap/paleomap.html
    
    
11. Ocean Drilling Program - JANUS Database
    Database includes paleontological, lithostratigraphic, chemical, physical, sedimentological, and geophysical data for ocean sediments and hard rocks.
    http://www-odp.tamu.edu/database/
    
    
12. PAGES
    International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) on paleoclimatology.
    http://www.pages.unibe.ch/
    
    
13. Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project
    Coordinates and encourages the systematic study of atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs) and to assess their ability to simulate large changes of climate such as those that occurred in the distant past.
    http://www-lsce.cea.fr/pmip/
    
    
14. Paleoclimatology and Climate System Dynamics
    Introduction to the field by Jonathan T. Overpeck. Provided by the American Geophysical Union.
    http://www.agu.org/revgeophys/overpe00/overpe00.html
    
    
15. Paleoclimatology and Climatology Resources
    Links to publications, software, and data pertinent to paleoclimate research.
    http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/climatology.html
    
    
16. Paleogeography of the Southwestern US
    Maps showing period-by-period reconstructions of the paleogeography of Southwest United States.
    http://vishnu.glg.nau.edu/rcb/paleogeogwus.html
    
    
17. Paleomap
    Virtual reality reconstructions illustrating the plate tectonic development of the ocean basins and continents, as well as the changing distribution of land and sea during the past 1100 million years.
    http://www.scotese.com/
    
    
18. Pangea Coring Workshop
    Announcement and description of an international workshop on a climatic, biotic, and tectonic transect, pole-to-pole, across the early Mesozoic supercontinent, June 1999. Updated regularly.
    http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~polsen/nbcp/pangeafinalreport.html
    
    
19. Plate Movements and Climate Change
    Student exercise from Karen L. Bice of Pennsylvania State University.
    http://www.beloit.edu/~SEPM/Earth_Works/Plate_Movements.html
    
    
20. Plate Tectonics - Online Data and Software Tools
    Data access and software for computing plate tectonic, paleomagnetism, marine gravity anomalies provided by the Istituto Tecnico Industriale E. Molinari, Milan.
    http://www.itis-molinari.mi.it/Geo.html
    
    
21. The Delphi Project
    Marine sediment core data, in particular oxygen and carbon isotope data, from a variety of different locations.
    http://delphi.esc.cam.ac.uk/
    
    
22. The Paleogeographic Atlas Project
    Global paleogeography and paleoclimates, with emphasis on the Permian and Jurassic. Climate-sensitive sediment and fossil plant distributions are shown on detailed paleogeographic maps, enabling determinations of global paleoclimate patterns.
    http://pgap.uchicago.edu/
    
    

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