Biogeography :: Ecology
Meteorology :: Earth Sciences
Oceanography :: Earth Sciences
Quaternary Studies :: Earth Sciences
Global Warming

500 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.

Caribbean Tectonic Reconstructions - Reconstructions of the Caribbean at various times in the geologic past (past 200 million years)

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.
Meta Description: [ Evolution of the Colorado River including how and when it formed the Grand Canyon ]

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.

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.

Global Earth History - A series of plate-tectonic reconstructions to show the broad patterns of Phanerozoic Earth history.

Himalayan Interdisciplinary Paleoclimate Project - Research into the paleoclimatology of the Himalayan mountains, focused on understanding changes in the Indian and Plateau monsoons over the past 2000 years, 20,000 years, and beyond.

Lithologic, Paleogeographic, and Paleocurrent Maps of the World - Offers images of time slices of different ages of the Earth.

NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - Paleoclimate data, research, and education.
Meta Description: [ The NOAA/NCDC Paleoclimatology Program provides data and information needed to understand natural climate variability prior to the period of instrumental record. ]

Ocean Drilling Program - JANUS Database - Database includes paleontological, lithostratigraphic, chemical, physical, sedimentological, and geophysical data for ocean sediments and hard rocks.
Meta Description: [ The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) is an international organization that explores Earth's structure and history through scientific ocean drilling. ]

ODSN Plate Tectonic Reconstruction Service - Ocean Drilling Stratigraphic Network (ODNS) interactive tool to calculate platetectonic reconstructions of any age back to 150 My.

PAGES - International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) on paleoclimatology.

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.
Meta Description: [ The aim of the PMIP project is to evaluate climate models under paleoclimate conditions and improve our understanding of past climate changes ]

Paleoclimatology and Climate System Dynamics - Introduction to the field by Jonathan T. Overpeck. Provided by the American Geophysical Union.

Paleogeography of the Southwestern US - Maps showing period-by-period reconstructions of the paleogeography of Southwest United States.

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.

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.
Meta Description: [ 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., Description of an international workshop on a climatic, biotic, and tectonic transect, pole-to-pole, acros... ]

Plate Movements and Climate Change - Student exercise from Karen L. Bice of Pennsylvania State University.

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.
Meta Description: [ Web Server for plate tectonics ]

500 The Delphi Project - Marine sediment core data, in particular oxygen and carbon isotope data, from a variety of different locations.