Find Plate Tectonics Websites

View the Earth in paleogeographic maps as it has changed through time as a result of plate tectonics and continental drift.

Article about the Penn State Geodynamics research that led to a new model of plate boundary structures in the San Francisco Bay region.

Textual and graphical information, including an archive of articles and research papers.

Details the different types of plate boundaries, with animated imagery and photos of the Sierra Madre Fault.

Program designed to calculate tectonic plate motion at any location on Earth using one or more plate motion models.

Describes faults and stress, thrusts, and soft-linked fault systems. Includes picture gallery.

Details normal, reverse, and strike-slip faults. Provided by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Hyperlinked profile of one of the most energetic earthquake zones in the world, located on a minor tectonic plate in Turkey.

Explains different types of fault lines along which earthquakes can happen and describes earthquake risks in the New Madrid Seismic Zone. From Rockhounding Arkansas.