Plate Project

We'll discuss this in class!

Pick a plate, and get the research brain fired up!

Use these awesome usgs website to find relevant links and information (or use Google, but this is a good place to start):

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/PlateTectonics/framework.html

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/dynamic.html

See you tomorrow!

I've also got some books that might help...

More Plate Tectonics!!!! Plates, Faults, Quakes, Boundaries!

For homework: check the blog every night! The homework will be posted on here every day. That way you don't have to check EDU and here and get confused and everything. So this is the place.

For Thursday!

Read this webpage:

http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect2/Sect2_1a.html

It's a better version of what's in our textbook. And more pictures, too!

Look up words you don't know online (I had to look up "ptygmatic" for example).

Take notes! Draw pictures in your notes. Use colors. Write down stuff you don't understand and we'll talk about it in class!

Here are some videos to help illustrate what we've been going over:

Funny little simplified animations of faults!

Normal Fault!

Reverse Fault!

Transform faults:

Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan

Here's an example of the type of video you guys should be looking for:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nTlgtf7TME&feature=related

Check it out: the tsunami was the effect of the offshore earthquake in Japan this past spring. That's the unbelievable power of plate tectonics. Feel free to find another video about the Japanese earthquake, or look for a different one!

A gigantic whirlpool created by the earthquake.

More plate tectonics

Pretty awesome History Channel video about the formation of Hawaii, which shows visually what I was explaining about hotspot island formation and plate tectonics. Check it out!

And here's a better example of folding than we saw today in class (from the USGS photo library):

And another on a larger scale:

try to follow the light and dark layers from the mountains on the left side of the image to the right side.

Plate Tectonics, Faults, and Eruptions

Here's a United States Geological Survey video about Mt. St. Helens.

(Video)

And another video here:

You can find more information on a website run by the United States Forest Service (Click Here).

And a video about the San Andreas fault in California that summarizes nicely a lot of what we were talking about today: