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
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/
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/
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
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/
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
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/
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
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/
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
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/
PAGES:
International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) on paleoclimatology.
http://www.pages.unibe.ch/
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
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
Friends of Palaeobiogeography:
International scientific working group dealing with the geographical
distributions of organisms through geological time.
http://www.paleobiogeography.org/
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/
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
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
