Resources

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., and 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., and S. Vannithone, 2001, The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, HarperCollins, New York, 329 pp.

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, by C. R. Scotese.
Paleogeography, by 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.)

Love, D., J. C. Reed Jr., and K. L. Pierce, 2003, Creation of the Teton Landscape, 2nd revised and enlarged edition, Grand Teton Association, Moose, WY, 135 pp. (1971 edition, by Love and Reed, is online in full.)
Roehler, H. W., 1992, Introduction to greater Green River basin geology, physiography, and history of investigations, US Geological Survey Professional Paper 1506-A, 14 pp.. [PDF]
Trimble, D. E., 1980, The geologic story of the Great Plains: a nontechnical description of the origin and evolution of the landscape of the Great Plains, US Geological Survey Bulletin 1493. (Also paperback edition, 2000, published by Theodore Roosevelt Nature & History Association, 64 pp.)

Okland, L., 1991, Paleogeographic mapping, in: R. H. Macdonald, and 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.) [PDF]