Fw: History of Life

[pwoodward]

There are a lot of good plate-tectonics websites. Here are three I
particularly like:

1. This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics, by W. Jacquelyne Kious
and Robert I. Tilling: http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html

2. The Paleomap Project , which depicts "the changing distribution of land
and sea during the past 1100 million years" and into the future:
http://www.scotese.com

3. UC Berkeley's Plate Tectonics animations:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html

Paige Woodward
pwoodwar at dowco.com


----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Shear <BILLS at HSC.EDU>
To: <TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 10:09 AM
Subject: History of Life


> Dear Taxacomers,
>
> I'm looking for a short, inexpensive book--or collection of articles--on
> the fundamentals of plate tectonics.  In my History of Life course, I now
> cover some introductory material on Geology without a common source of
> readings.  I'd like to have one book which I can ask the students to buy
> and read, but don't feel justified in having them shell out 50-75 bucks
for
> a Geology textbook, only a third of which will be used.
>
> At the moment I put an array of Geology texts on reserve in the library,
> but records show that very few students take advantage of them.
>
> Taxacom might not be the right place to ask about this, but taxonomists
> tend to be broadly educated and someone out there might be able to help.
>
> Bill Shear
> Department of Biology
> Hampden-Sydney College
> Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
> (804)223-6172
> FAX (804)223-6374
> email<bills at hsc.edu>
>