Tanya Atwater

Plate Tectonics, the San Andreas Fault System, and How They Reorganized the Topography and Geology of Southern California. part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2023:Program:Afternoon Mini-Workshops
The Californias are one of the few places on Earth where the geology of the land is intimately entangled with the details of the adjacent oceanic plate tectonic history and, as such, they present an exceptional ...

Quakes, Volcanoes & Plate Boundaries part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:First Day of Class:Activities
This educational activity page presents a geoscience teaching exercise where introductory undergraduate students, in small groups, use world outline transparencies overlaid on seismic and volcanic data maps to identify and analyze plate boundaries, fostering engagement through hands-on, data-driven learning on the first day of an entry-level geology course.