Resources

Books

• 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.

Books and Articles on Geologic History of the South Central US

• Beveridge, T. R. 1978. An introduction to the geologic history of Missouri. Missouri Geological Survey and Water Resources Miscellaneous Publication 6, 8 pp.
• Dutch, S. 2009. Plate Tectonics and the Evolution of Central America and the Caribbean. (A series of paleogeographic maps that include the Gulf Coast area.).
• Guccione, M. J. 1993. Geologic History of Arkansas Through Time and Space, University of Arkansas.
• Johnson, K. 2008. Geologic History, Map, and Cross Sections of Oklahoma.
• Merriam, D. F. 1963. The geologic history of Kansas. Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin 162, 317 pp.
• 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.
• Unklesbay, A. G., & J. G. Vineyard. 1992. Missouri Geology: Three Billion Years of Volcanoes, Seas, Sediments, and Erosion. University of Missouri Press, Columbia, 189 p.
• Urbanczyk, K., D. Rohr, & J. C. White. 2001. Geologic history of West Texas, pp. 17 - 25, in: R. E. Mace, W. F. Mullican, & E. S. Angle (eds.), Aquifers of West Texas, Texas Water Development Board Report 356.
• Van Arsdale, R. B., & R. T. Cox. 2007. The Mississippi’s curious origins. Scientific American, 296(1): 76 - 82, 82B.

Maps

• AAPG. 1966. Mid-Continent Region Geological Highway Map. AAPG, Tulsa, OK. (Covers Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.)
• AAPG. 1995. Southeastern Region Geological Highway Map. AAPG, Tulsa, OK. (Covers Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi.)
• AAPG. 1973. Texas Geological Highway Map. AAPG, Tulsa, OK.

Websites

• North America During the Last 150,000 Years, compiled by J. Adams.
• Color-coded Continents!, US Geological Survey. (Reconstructions of color-coded continental motions from 620 million years ago through the present; maps from C. Scotese.).
• 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.).

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), Tulsa, 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.).