Subducting Farallon Plate under North America part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Three-dimensional seismic tomography image showing the subducting farallon plate beneath the crust of western North America. Part of Princeton University's 'Art of Science 2009' ...

The Farallon Plate part of SERC Web Resource Collection

In this animation from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, the Farallon Plate sinks beneath North American Plate and scrapes along bottom of continent for 1,500 kilometers before sinking ...

Geologic History of the San Andreas Fault System part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This page from the USGS resource This Dynamic Earth (online edition) describes the evolution of the western coast of North America. A series of block diagrams shows how the subduction zone along the ...

Farallon Plate Remnants part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This image and short video from the NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio shows the remnants of the Farallon Plate based on seismic tomography studies. The studies were conducted by Hans-Peter ...

Crustal structure and tectonics from the Los Angeles basin to the Mojave Desert, southern California part of SERC Print Resource Collection
A seismic refraction and low-fold reflection survey, known as the Los Angeles Region Seismic Experiment (LARSE), was conducted along a transect extending from Seal Beach, California, to the Mojave ...

Google Earth Community: Magnetic Anomalies of the Earth part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This is a Google Earth image overlay map of magnetic anomaly information derived from more than 50 years of aeromagnetic surveys over land areas, research vessel magnetometer traverses at sea, and ...

NGDC World Magnetic Anomaly Map part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This data demonstrates how data from magnetic minerals helps us understand plate tectonics.

Earth's magnetic field and declination, 1590-2010 part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This data documents a surface phenomenon related to materials within the Earth.

Seismograms for 2005 October 08 part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This USGS page contains seismograms from more than 25 stations around the world that recorded the waves from the October 8, 2005 Pakistan earthquake.

SoftStructure: Structural Geology on a PC part of SERC Web Resource Collection

SoftStructure is a package of more than 20 programs (most under DOS) for Quantitative Analysis in Structural Geology, including: MOHR, SHEAR, STRAIN, FRY, CALCITE_TWINS, STRESS_INVERSION, FOLTING, ...