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Maps showing period-by-period reconstructions of the paleogeography of Southwest United States.
http://vishnu.glg.nau.edu/rcb/paleogeogwus.html
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.
http://www-lsce.cea.fr/pmip/
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.
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Home Page Project is to illustrate 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. In the Earth History section of this website are full-color...Ocean Drilling Stratigraphic Network (ODNS) interactive tool to calculate platetectonic reconstructions of any age back to 150 My.
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Make platetectonic reconstruction This is the platetectonic reconstruction service. In this section you can calculate platetectonic reconstructions of any age back to 150 My. Please read the reference information for more info on how these maps are calculated and what data is used....Paleogeography "movies" of the southwestern United States and the western hemisphere based upon maps made at Northern Arizona by Ron Blakely.
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Teaching Geology at CU Resources Go to the no-frames (no navigation) content of the resource index...Paleoclimate data, research, and education.
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html
Student exercise from Karen L. Bice of Pennsylvania State University.
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Plate Movements and Climate Change Students will gain an understanding of how the movements of the Earth's plates over the past 180 million years (abbreviated My) may have affected the climate of the continents. Students will use maps of ancient continental positions and, with some...Reconstructions of the Caribbean at various times in the geologic past (past 200 million years)
http://www.fiu.edu/orgs/caribgeol/Caribreconstr.html
Marine sediment core data, in particular oxygen and carbon isotope data, from a variety of different locations.
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The Delphi Project Home Page Delphi project will soon be moving! See the news item below for more details. Marine sediment core data, in particular oxygen and carbon isotope data, from a variety of different locations is available from this site; to access data from...A series of plate-tectonic reconstructions to show the broad patterns of Phanerozoic Earth history.
http://vishnu.glg.nau.edu/rcb/globaltext.html
Links to publications, software, and data pertinent to paleoclimate research.
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Paleoclimatology and Climatology X biblio hype auctions hardware bench other paleo ent int nb stat1 stat2 stat3 dilbert doone short faqs people music W3 meta NIGEC kernel Climatology and Paleoclimatology Resources The following links will guide you to publications, software, data and various...Database includes paleontological, lithostratigraphic, chemical, physical, sedimentological, and geophysical data for ocean sediments and hard rocks.
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Ocean Drilling Program: Janus Web Database For questions about the online database: Help Desk To obtain data not available online: contact the Data Librarian. Janus Web provides access to ODP's Oracle relational database Janus. The database contains 450 tables of ODP's marine geoscience data that are...Introduction to the field by Jonathan T. Overpeck. Provided by the American Geophysical Union.
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Paleoclimatology and climate system dynamics Paleoclimatology and climate system dynamics Jonathan T. Overpeck NOAA Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder, Colorado¹ 185; Also at Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, The University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 Introduction The Role of the Paleo-Sciences in Understanding Climate System Dynamics...The goal of GAIM is to advance the study of the coupled dynamics of the Earth system using as tools both data and models.
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GAIM Global Analysis, Integration, and Modelling M publications and highlights Calendar Meetings and workshops future, present and past Structure Structure of GAIM Task Force, research projects and activities Contacts Who is who in the GAIM Office and Task Force Products Publications, newsletters and reports Credits and...International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) on paleoclimatology.
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PAGES Past Global Changes S science activities services/products calendar people Contact: PAGES IPO Sulgeneckstrasse 38 3007 Bern Switzerland Phone 41 (0)31 312 31 33 Fax 41 (0)31 312 31 68 pages@pages.unibe.ch join PAGES contribute to PAGES Welcome to PAGES! PAGES (Past Global Changes) supports...Offers images of time slices of different ages of the Earth.
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SWAU Department of Geology Website designed and maintained by David Weis Questions of comments please contact Art Chadwick Site last updated 5/4/05...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.
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Report of Pangea Coring Workshop This workshop was funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the International Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP- Potsdam You are visitor number...Data access and software for computing plate tectonic, paleomagnetism, marine gravity anomalies provided by the Istituto Tecnico Industriale E. Molinari, Milan.
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Plate Tectonics On-Line Data and Software Tools The main goal of this web site is to provide public access to software for paleomagnetic analysis and plate tectonic reconstructions. Other useful modeling tools will be available soon (e.g. interactive tools for the visualization of plate velocity fields since...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.
http://pgap.uchicago.edu/
Article introducing a model for the evolution of the Colorado River and the origin of the Grand Canyon.
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Evolution of the Colorado River and its Tributaries There are two stories regarding Grand Canyon geology. Part one concerns the actual rock layers, and in particular, when and how they were deposited. This subject has been covered in depth in many other papers. Part two of Grand Canyon...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.
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HIPP PAGES P initiative represents a multidisciplinary program aimed at improving our understanding of past changes in the behavior of the Indian and Plateau monsoons over the past 2000 years, 20,000 years, and beyond through the collection and analysis of high resolution,...