Imagining Earth's Interior part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This image from the COMPRES galleries show a dozen conceptions of the structure of the deep earth. The composite image is by Ed Garnero.

Teachable Moments: Haiti Earthquake part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This page from IRIS includes links to resources about the geology of the January 12, 2010 Haiti earthquake. Included are animation/visualization links, USGS resources, and others.

Numerical Models of the Geodynamo part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This page from Peter Olson at Johns Hopkins University describes recent geomagnetic research. The page includes several illustrations and an animation of geomagnetic reversal.

Geodynamo part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This page from UC-Santa Cruz gives a description of the Earth's geomagnetic history, with several modeled images of the Earth's magnetic field. Included is a link to a PBS Nova animation of ...

Mantle Convection Cell part of SERC Web Resource Collection

An annotated illustration showing mantle convection and its relation to plate tectonics, from the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University.

Dynamic Earth - Mantle Convection part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This page from the University of Leeds gives an introduction to the drivers of plate tectonics, including links to illustrations depicting ridge push/ slab pull, ridge bathymetry, mantle tomographic ...

Mantle Dynamics Research at RSES part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This page from the Australian National University includes discussions (with figures) of research on mantle fluid dynamics and mantle evolution.

Plumes or reheated slabs? part of SERC Web Resource Collection

A scientific discussion of the evolving conceptual model of mantle development, focusing on penetrative convection as an alternative hypothesis to plume convection.

Mantle Convection using Adaptive Mesh Refinement part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This page from the University of Texas at Austin gives a snapshot and brief description of an adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) global mantle convection simulation. Part of the TACC Scientific ...

Visualization of 3D Mantle Data part of SERC Web Resource Collection

A series of simulations from the Yuen Research group of the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute at the University of Minnesota. There are three animations showing models of temperature and velocity ...