ES 10: Section--week 3

 

Prehistory of California

 

Week 3 Handouts:

Assignment for week 4: 

Reading for week 4: Plate Tectonics and People

Some sites to check out for next week:

http://www.seismo.berkeley.edu/seismo/Homepage.html--a good starting point for learning more about local faults and earthquakes

http://www.seismo.berkeley.edu/seismo/hayward/hayward.overview.html--stop here to learn more about the fault running through our very own campus

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/SF_Bay.html--here, you can get up-to-date information on when/where earthquakes have occurred in the Bay Area during the last week...enjoy!

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html--shows plate tectonics animations and has a good history of plate tectonics

http://www.scotese.com/--has pictures of different continental configurations, including future ones!!

Earthquakes - how to live with it in SF http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/eqmaps/eqmaps.html

http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html#anchor19309449 story of plate tectonics - http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/San_Andreas.html

http://www.geol.ucsb.edu/~atwater/ Tanya Atwater - neat movies