Planetary Atmospheres
- ideal gasses
java applets: kinetic theory, gas law, piston, ideal atmosphere - atmospheric escape
the transient sodium atmosphere of the Moon
Let's Go: Solar System
The Earth
The Theory of Plate Tectonics
- cartoon of interior, and how we know
- convection currents
- Evidence for plates
- Continental drift
- Terrestrial evidence
- Evidence from space: satellite laser ranging, VLBI, GPS timing
- Drift animated
- Consequences of Drift
- Mountains: Himalayas
- Earthquakes: San Andreas fault. b/w image, color image, roadside cutaway in Palmdale, CA Carizo Plain, CA
- Volcanoes: Mt. St. Helens
