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- Caribbean Tectonic Reconstructions - Reconstructions of the Caribbean at various times in the geologic past (past 200 million years)
www.fiu.edu/orgs/caribgeol/Caribreconstr.html
- 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.
www.durangobill.com/Paleorivers_preface.html
- Friends of Palaeobiogeography - International scientific working group dealing with the geographical distributions of organisms through geological time.
www.paleobiogeography.org
- 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.
www.colorado.edu/GeolSci/Resources
- 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.
gaim.sr.unh.edu
- Global Earth History - A series of plate-tectonic reconstructions to show the broad patterns of Phanerozoic Earth history.
vishnu.glg.nau.edu/rcb/globaltext.html
- Kathmandu Workshop - Research into the paleoclimatology of the Himalayan mountains.
www.grg.sr.unh.edu/hipp/KduWkshp_contents/KduWkshp_rep.html
- Lithologic, Paleogeographic, and Paleocurrent Maps of the World - Offers images of time slices of different ages of the Earth.
geology.swau.edu
- NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - Paleoclimate data, research, and education.
www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html
- Ocean Drilling Program - JANUS Database - Database includes paleontological, lithostratigraphic, chemical, physical, sedimentological, and geophysical data for ocean sediments and hard rocks.
www-odp.tamu.edu/database
- ODSN Plate Tectonic Reconstruction Service - Ocean Drilling Stratigraphic Network (ODNS) interactive tool to calculate platetectonic reconstructions of any age back to 150 My.
www.odsn.de/odsn/services/paleomap/paleomap.html
- PAGES - International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) on paleoclimatology.
www.pages.unibe.ch
- 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.
www-lsce.cea.fr/pmip
- Paleoclimatology and Climate System Dynamics - Introduction to the field by Jonathan T. Overpeck. Provided by the American Geophysical Union.
www.agu.org/revgeophys/overpe00/overpe00.html
- Paleoclimatology and Climatology Resources - Links to publications, software, and data pertinent to paleoclimate research.
stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/climatology.html
- Paleogeography of the Southwestern US - Maps showing period-by-period reconstructions of the paleogeography of Southwest United States.
vishnu.glg.nau.edu/rcb/paleogeogwus.html
- 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.
www.scotese.com
- 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.
www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~polsen/nbcp/pangeafinalreport.html
- Phanerozoic Climates Research Project - Paleoclimatology research at the University of Arizona.
www.geo.arizona.edu/Paleoclimate
- Plate Movements and Climate Change - Student exercise from Karen L. Bice of Pennsylvania State University.
www.beloit.edu/~SEPM/Earth_Works/Plate_Movements.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.
www.itis-molinari.mi.it/Geo.html
- The Delphi Project - Marine sediment core data, in particular oxygen and carbon isotope data, from a variety of different locations.
delphi.esc.cam.ac.uk
- 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.
pgap.uchicago.edu
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