A large collection of resources for teaching structural geology. Information is sorted into topic headings, including basic principles of organization, basic structures (folds, faults, shear zones), virtual field trips, strain, geology...

It's surprising to find out that the New Madrid Seismic Zone is the most seismically active area in the United States. The facts go into the New Madrid fault very scientifically and are very detailed. Find maps and charts showing...

Resource provides a description of the topography of the Basin and Range province focusing on its fault history and water drainage system.

A fault-line plan from 1911 of the principal faults in the Bullfrog district of southwest Nevada.

This outstanding website provides an excellent variety of hands-on earthquake activities to help you understand what causes earthquakes.

This resource provides definitions of important earthquake related terms.

This website is a resource for learning about earthquakes. Java animation at this site helps you visually understand the causes of earthquakes.

This site contains an in-depth explanation of the causes of earthquakes as they relate to plate tectonics, and also has many nice and easy to read pictures, maps, and diagrams of plate tectonics and earthquakes.

Students use geologic fault maps of the San Francisco Bay Area to find relationships between tectonic plate fault lines and landscape features, topographic features, and epicenters of past earthquakes.

This article from the Journal of Geological Education describes an activity in which learners locate the epicenter of several earthquakes, plot the trends of the two faults involved, and determine the sense of motion along the plane of...

This site contains information about we have learned about the San Andreas Fault since 1906.

Explains what a transform boundary is and gives examples of well-known faults of this type.

Go on a geologic adventure in this interactive, online trail guide to the Wallace Creek site on the San Andreas Fault.

Study earthquakes from the earth's faults to the measurement system used in researching the shakers. Investigate what the primary and secondary effects are.

Students learn about the structure of the earth and how an earthquake happens. In one activity, students make a model of the earth including all of its layers. In a teacher-led demonstration, students learn about continental drift. In...

Students work in small groups to use a physical model, the earthquake machine, to examine the occurrence of earthquakes and the inputs and outputs of fault systems.

This interactive map of the Basin and Range Province reveals earthquakes, faults, hazards, volcanoes, mines, and National Parks.

With its clickable map, this site provides text and graphics on spreading boundary, converging boundary, subduction zone, transverse boundaries and faults.

This interactive tutorial on visualizing geologic features contains animated block diagrams that show how the surface expressions of dipping layers, folds, igneous intrusions, and faults are related to subsurface structure and cross...

This site has a good description of what this particular type of map represents. It also explains the colors and letter symbols, faults, and strike and dips.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage describe different active tectonic plates around the globe. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...

USGS provides the definition of a fault, the basics of earthquakes, the theory of plate tectonics, location of plates and earthquakes, and embedded links to related material.

Discussion of liquefaction and landslides which are two of the many effects of earthquakes.

This site makes available the second part of a textbook on computer system design. The chapters cover topics such as fault tolerance, networking, consistency and information security.