Planetary Atmospheres

• ideal gasses
• kinetic theory and atmospheric escape, gases with gravity
• transient sodium atmosphere on the Moon

Lonely Planets Guide: Solar System

The Earth

The Theory of Plate Tectonics

• cartoon of interior, and how we know: seismic reflection and refraction locally and globally, animation
• convection currents
• Evidence for plates
  • volcano and earthquake locations dynamic map, animated
  • earthquake locations
  • plate boundaries mapped here and here
• 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 images, roadside cutaway in Palmdale, CA
  • Volcanoes: Mt. Kiluea images, webcam and videos; Mt. Etna video

The Earth-Moon System

Craters on Earth?

• Manicouagan, Clearwater Lakes, Canada
• Tunguska, Siberia
• Meteor crater, Arizona
• Cosmic calamity! ... and evidence