1) Book Frame: Manuscript ( Internet): Gave an easy to follow discription of the movement of the earth's crustal plates, of the plate boundaries, and the history of how the planet has changed due to plate techtonics.
2) 1996 New Book of Popular Science. volume 2, pgs 68-74: Gave an in depth view of how th collisions of the earth's plates cause the creation of mountains and other land forms.
3) 1998 New Book of Knowledge. volume 19, pgs 384-386: Gives a brief discription of how the subduction of a plate causes the formations of volcanoes and islands.
4) Plate Techtonics, Copyright 1991, Grady, M. Sean. pgs 37,42: Gives a very brief discription of plate techtonics and gives the names and locations of many of the earth's plates.
5)Earth Sciences Web Site When Continents Collide:
Gives well organized information on the uplifting and folding of sedimentary layers due to the subduction of earth's plates.
6) UXL Encyclopedia of Science, volume 7, pgs 1577-1582: Gives discriptions of plate movements and their actions. It also gives their structure and a brief description of the continental drift.
7) Earth Science Web Site : The Basics of Plate Techtonics: Stated information on plate boundaries and a brief selection on a type of convection current.
8) 1998 Encyclopedia of Earth and Physical Sciences, pgs 1002-1006:Gave a useful, and simplified view of the movement and boundaries of the earth's plates.
9)Encyclopedia Britanica: Plate Techtonics. Copyright 1987, volume 25, pgs 877-880: Gave a long and thoroughly complex explaination of the three types of plate collisions and a history of the plates movements and how it's affected the evolution of life on this planet.
10) Encarta 94: Plate Techtonics: Gives a useful and simplified view plate boundaries, plate movements, and how we can tell which oceanic land masses are older or younger. It even provides a little presentation on how convection currents are used within the earth to move the plates and create new land.
11) FEMA: Fact Sheet Earthquakes :This site provides great information on what to do if a Earthquake strikes your area. The site also gives you the top 22 biggest earthquakes in the U.S.
12) FEMA-Project Impact :This site show some of the programs that FEMA is doing to help earthquake victums and victums of other natural dissaters.
13) Frequently Asked Questions: Earthquakes and New York State :This site talks about how to perpare for earthquakes. It aslo talks about earthquakes in New York city. Also gives a breif explaination of what causes earthquakes.
14) New system should help scientists predict earthquakes :This web site shows how scientists are trying to predict furture earthquakes, givig people time to perpare.
15) The World Book Encyclopedia 1994 volume 15, pages 561-564. It provides a very useful and easliy understood description of the plate bonderies and their movemnets
16) Encarta 1993 CD-ROM, Plate Tectonics. This provides a great amount of backround infromation on plate tectonics. Also gose into detail about what happens cause of plate tectonics.
17) Volcanoes : Provides a simple, yet informative section on American volcanoes.
18) Earthquakes, Patricia Lauber. Copyright 1971. Gave good info on Management. Also gave info on seismaticwaves and the inside of the earth.
19) Volcanic Eruptions, Gregory Vogt. Copyright 1989. This book gave us good insight on how volcanos afect earthquakes and plate tectonics.
20) Sessions Woods Wildlife Management Area Brocher. From the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection Bureau of Natural Resources Wildlife Division. This gve use some info on what local groups are doing.
21) The Burlington Land Trust Inc. Brocher. This brocher gave us some info on local organizations and what they are doing. Also gives you info on how to join.
22) Be Recognized For Your Positive Contributions To The Connecticut Environment, Brocher. This gave us info about the Green Circle Program.
23) Wasteline, Spring 1999 edition. This gave us info on what the state is doing fo the enviroment. Also give info on recycling.
24) Welcome to Farmington, Burlington, and Harwington. Copywrite 1999 by Southside Media : This broshure provides info on the history and makeup of our sorrounding cities.
