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.
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.)
Tour of Geologic Time, University of California Museum of Paleontology. (Online interactive geologic calendar exhibit.)
Geologic History of the Northwest Central
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.)
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]