General Books on Geologic History

• Bjornerud, M., 2005, Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth, Westview Press, Cambridge, MA, 237 pp.
• Fortey, R. A., 2004, The Earth, An Intimate History, HarperCollins, London, 509 pp.
• Hazen, R. M., 2012, The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet, Viking, New York, 306 pp.
• Kious, J., & R. I. Tilling, 1996, The Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics, US Geological Survey, Washington, DC.
• Macdougall, J. D., 1996, A Short History of Planet Earth: Mountains, Mammals, Fire, and Ice, Wiley, New York, 266 pp.
• Morton, J. L., 2004, Strata: The Remarkable Life Story of William Smith, the Father of English Geology, new edition, Brocken Spectre, Horsham, UK, 171 pp.
• Powell, J., 2001, Mysteries of Terra Firma: The Age and Evolution of the Earth, Free Press, New York, 256 pp.
• Winchester, S., & S. Vannithone, 2001, The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, HarperCollins, New York, 329 pp.

General Websites on Geologic History

• Color-coded Continents!, US Geological Survey. [Reconstructions of color-coded continental motions from 620 million years ago through the present; maps from C. Scotese.]
• Earth Viewer, by BioInteractive at Howard Hughes Medical Institute. [Free iPad app; an interactive paleogeographic atlas of the world; state and country overlays allows tracking the development of the Western States.]
• Geologic Maps of the 50 United States, by Andrew Alden.
• North America During the Last 150,000 Years, compiled by J. Adams.
• The Paleomap Project, C. R. Scotese.
• Paleogeography, R. Blakey. [The older, but free, version of the site.]
• Reconstructing the Ancient Earth, Colorado Plateau Geosystems. [R. Blakey‚ updated site.]
• Tour of Geologic Time, University of California Museum of Paleontology. [Online interactive geologic calendar exhibit.]

Books and Articles on Geologic History of the Southwest

• Baldridge, W. S., 2004, Geology of the American Southwest: A Journey through Two Billion Years of Plate-Tectonic History, Cambridge University Press, 314 pp.
• Peal, R. H., 1978, Colorado Stratigraphic Correlation Chart, Colorado Geological Survey.
• Rasmussen, J. C., 2012, Geologic History of Arizona, Rocks & Minerals, 87(1): 56–63.
• Timmons, M. J., & C. A. Manduca, eds., 2012, Grand Canyon geology: Two billion years of Earth’s history, Geological Society of America Special Paper 489, 156 pp.

Websites on Geologic History of the Southwest

• The Great Unconformity of the Grand Canyon and the Late Proterozoic-Cambrian Time Interval: Part I - Defining It, by J. Share, 2012.
• The Great Unconformity and the Late Proterozoic-Cambrian Time Interval: Part II - The Rifting of Rodinia and the "Snowball Earth" Glaciations That Followed, by J. Share, 2012.
• The Great Unconformity at Baker's Bridge: Part III - Regional Geological and Global Bio-Evolutionary Significance, by J. Share, 2014.
• Sedimentary Rock Formations of the Grand Canyon, In the Playground of Giants, by Ken Bevis (Department of Geology, Hanover College).

Activities

• Okland, L., 1991, Paleogeographic mapping, in: R. H. Macdonald, & S. G. Stover, eds., Hands-on Geology: K-12 Activities and Resources, Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), Tula, OK. [Constructing paleogeographic maps for elementary and middle school students.]
• Toilet Paper Analogy for Geologic Time, by J. Wenner, in: Teaching Quantitative Skills in the Geosciences, at Resources for Undergraduate Students and Faculty, SERC. [Demonstration of geological time using a 1000 sheet roll of toilet paper.]
• Understanding Geologic Time, Texas Memorial Museum at the University of Texas at Austin. [Timeline activity for middle school students.]