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Wegener's Puzzling Evidence Exercise
Alfred Wegener from Wikipedia

Plate Tectonics from Wikipedia



Plate Tectonics Lesson from NOAA (Videos and Activities)
Drill Core Samples to determine boundary type. Compare earthquake locations and boundary locations.

Click here to see Earthquakes and Plates from NOAA. Move the slider to go from earthquakes to plate boundaries. Consider the questions.

Discovering Plate Boundaries (Rice University)
Discovering Plate Boundaries (Current) Discovering Plate Boundaries (Original)

Map Downloads from Discovering Plate Boundaries
Click here for a variety of formats. Example: GIF format -- 2550 by 3300 pixels (0.2 to 2.8 Mb files) Seismology Map Volcanology Seafloor Age Topography/Bathymetry Plate Boundary Map

= Continental Drift Activity (active art) (active art web code cfp-1015) =

ESRI GIS (Maps)
Earthquakes and Volcanoes

==Real Time Earthquakes with Plate Boundaries in Google Earth==

USGS Source for Plate Map (above)

(A variety of resolutions and languages are available.)

Evidence for Plate Tectonics video (15 min)
https://youtu.be/PZ8OqFQWxE0

Radioactive decay is the source of heat that drives mantle convection.
===See Earth's Internal Heat Budget Geothermal Gradiant Geothermal Energy===