http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-earth.html

Note: I am not sure where this came from.

Burnet, Thomas (1635? -1715)Telluris theoria sacra.The theory of the earth : Containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, till the consummation of all things. The two first books concerning the deluge, and concerning paradise.London : Printed by R. Norton, for Walter Kettilby, 1684.

PLATE

Exploring Earth, Davidson, Reed, and Davis, Prentice Hall, 2nd Edition, Figure 1.5, p. 6.

“Plate Tectonics,” The Basic Idea:

Earth’s Dynamic Systems, Hamblin and Christiansen, Prentice Hall

Locations of the Major Tectonic “Plates”

Note: this is the map I have often used. I like it, but can’t find it any more. The following one is close enough.

http://www.maps.com/ref_map.aspx?nav=RM&cid=679,1037&pid=12871

A Global Map of Earthquakes Also Shows the Plate Boundaries

http://wwweprc.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/CSS/gallery1.html

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-131-02/CUShazard.html

The San Andreas Fault

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/San_Andreas.htmlhttp://tapestry.usgs.gov/

features/25sanandreas.html

A DEVASTATING EVENT: THE SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE OF DECEMBER 26, 2004

Note: I haven’t found this yet

COMPLEX PLATE

BOUNDARY ZONE IN ASIA

Northward motion of India

deforms all of the region

Creates many small

microplates, and lots of LARGE

EARTHQUAKESExploring Earth, Davidson, Reed, and Davis, Prentice Hall, 2nd Edition, Figure Box-3, p. 304.

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/fliers/00mgg04.html

The process of subduction that has created Indonesia through volcanic activity, also makes it dangerous.

Burma Microplate Sumatra

Indian Plate

Exploring Earth, Davidson, Reed, and Davis, Prentice Hall, 2nd Edition, Figure 10.3, p. 289.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/msh//climactic.html

Exploring Earth, Davidson, Reed, and Davis, Prentice Hall, 2nd Edition, Figure Box-1, p. 444.

Courtesy of A. Dziewonski

Seismic “Tomography” Has Allowed Us to Explore the Interior of Our Planet….

http://www.seismology.harvard.edu/projects/3D/

Exploring Earth, Davidson, Reed, and Davis, Prentice Hall, 2nd Edition, Figure 10.3, p. 289.

This is what parts of the U.S. used to look like…..

Note: I haven’t found this, or anything close enough yet.

Seismic Imaging Reveals the Most Likely Places to Find Oil and Natural Gas.

Note: I haven’t found this, or anything close enough yet.

It also will also reveal the locations of the next big source of energy, methane gas hydrates.

http://picturethis.pnl.gov/picturet.nsf/All/53KTZG?opendocument

http://www.uni-kiel.de/future-ocean/a2/bild2.gif

From the movie “The Core”

From the movie “The Core”

From the movie “The Core”

This is an old print from Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth, but I can’t find a reference for it.

http://physics.missouristate.edu/New_site/faculty/mayanovic/research_bob_mayanovic.html

National Geographic, January, 1996.

Courtesy of S. Zhong

DOWNWELLING UPWELLING

http://anquetil.colorado.edu/szhong/

Courtesy of Van Heijst et al.

Subduction of ancient Pacific seafloor beneath North America

….and Notice the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/research/seismology.htm

http://geology.asu.edu/research/deep_earth/deep_earth1.html

Fantasy Writer’s Idea of the Core-Mantle Boundary….

http://www.violetbooks.com/gallery/stjohn4.html

Artist’s Idea of the Core-Mantle Boundary….

Note: I haven’t found the reference for this yet.

Magnetic Field Lines in Earth’s Iron Core

Courtesy of G. Glatzmaier

Gary A. Glatzmaier & Paul H. Roberts, "A three-dimensional self-consistent computer simulation of a geomagnetic field reversal," Nature, 377, 203-209 (1995).

Magnetic Field Lines in Earth’s Iron Core

The Field FLIPS RANDOMLY Every Few 100,000 Years (or so)!

Courtesy of G. Glatzmaier

Gary A. Glatzmaier & Paul H. Roberts, "A three-dimensional self-consistent computer simulation of a geomagnetic field reversal," Nature, 377, 203-209 (1995).

Courtesy of G. Glatzmaier

Magnetic Field Lines in Earth’s Iron Core

The Field FLIPS RANDOMLY Every Few 100,000 Years (or so)!

Gary A. Glatzmaier & Paul H. Roberts, "A three-dimensional self-consistent computer simulation of a geomagnetic field reversal," Nature, 377, 203-209 (1995).

Courtesy of G. Glatzmaier

Magnetic Field Lines in Earth’s Iron Core

The Field FLIPS RANDOMLY Every Few 100,000 Years (or so)!

Gary A. Glatzmaier & Paul H. Roberts, "A three-dimensional self-consistent computer simulation of a geomagnetic field reversal," Nature, 377, 203-209 (1995).

Courtesy of G. Glatzmaier

Magnetic Field Lines in Earth’s Iron Core

The Field Strength has recently decreased by 10%. Are we beginning a new field reversal??

Gary A. Glatzmaier & Paul H. Roberts, "A three-dimensional self-consistent computer simulation of a geomagnetic field reversal," Nature, 377, 203-209 (1995).

http://geophysics.nmsu.edu/jni/introgeophys/01_what_is/icore_xc.gif

Magnetic field lines in the core.

Gary A. Glatzmaier & Paul H. Roberts, "A three-dimensional self-consistent computer simulation of a geomagnetic field reversal," Nature, 377, 203-209 (1995).

http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/auroras/happen.html