These internet sites are helpful for learning more about plate tectonics, the theory which revolutionized the science of geology and our understanding of the Earth. Learn about how geologists determine the past positions of the Earth's continents and view maps showing their positions for any time in the geologic past.

http://www.dinosauria.com/dml/maps.htm
Maps of Ancient Earth, by Jeff Poling, provides color images of past tectonic plate configurations.

http://webspinners.com/dlblanc/tectonic/ptABCs.html
The ABCs of Plate Tectonics is an introduction to plate tectonics by Donald Blanchard.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html
This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics is an online book by W. Jacquelyne Kious and Robert Tilling of the United States Geological Survey.

http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Geology/webdogs/plates/reconstructions.html
Virtual tectonic plates from Paul Howell at the University of Kentucky. This page includes a large menu of links related to plate reconstructions through time.

http://www.scotese.com/
The Paleomap Project web site of Christopher Scotese, the guru of paleogeographic reconstructions. These pages contain full-color paleogeographic maps showing topographic features and plate boundaries, as well as maps that project current plate motions into the future.

http://vishnu.glg.nau.edu/rcb/globaltext.html
View and download images of plate tectonic reconstructions from the Late Proterozoic (Precambrian) to the present by Ron Blakey at Northern Arizona University.

http://manbow.ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/tamaki-html/plate_motion.html
The Plate Motion Calculator is an online program to calculate present-day tectonic plate motions written by Kensaku Tamaki at the University of Tokyo in Japan.

http://www.odsn.de/odsn/cgi/make_map.pl
ODSN Plate Tectonic Reconstruction Service

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/images.html
This web site contains a wide variety of images and animations of global surface features and tectonics, courtesy of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

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