Dinosaurs, Space and Geology maps from National Geographic

National Geographic, with its lush photography and emphasis on geography also produces maps on dinosaurs and outer space.  These are great for home schooling or other education uses, as posters, or for those who just enjoy a well-designed map.   

Here's a list of science based 'maps' from the last 60 years of National Geographic.  I've been collecting them for over 10 years now.   

The Mars maps are particularly handy to have when you're reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy.

• · Mars Revealed 2001
• · Portraits of Our Celestial Family 1990
• · Milky Way 1999
• · The Heavens - Starcharts 1957
• · World 1957
• · Journey into the Universe thru Time & Space 1983
• · Earth's Moon 1969
• · Apollo Astronauts 1972
• · Earth seen from Space 1973
• · The Red Planet Mars 1973
• · Portrait U.S.A.from Space 1976
• · The Solar System 1981
• 2004 Earth at Night

These are excellent additions to any study of human evolution or dinosaurs in history. I've grouped them together because the topic often comes up, even though humans didn't evolve until 65 million years after the last dinosaurs died out. [Unless, of course, you count birds as dinosaur descendants, in which case, National Geographic has several more maps for you, below]

· New View of Dinosaurs 1989

· Dawn of Humans 1997

· North America in the Age of Dinosaurs 1993

Fascinating both as works of art and detailed topography we otherwisee will never sea, National Geographic has been publishing maps of the Ocean floor for over 40 years. The tectonic plate maps give vivid details to modern ideas of how the continents formed.

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· The Shaping of a Continent: North America's Active West 1985

· 1968 Map - Atlantic Ocean Floor

· 1969 Pacific Ocean Floor - National Geographic

· Physical Earth - Continental Drift 1998"

· World Ocean Floors: Arctic Ocean 1990

· World Ocean Floors: Atlantic Ocean 1990

· World Ocean Floors - Pacific Ocean 1992

· Earth's Fractured Surface -World Ocean Floors 1995

·         Whales of the World 1976

·         Bird Migration in the Americas 1979 

·         Pinnipeds Around the World 1987 

·         Natural Hazards of North America 1998 

·         Millennium in Maps: Population 1998

·         Millennium in Maps: Biodiversity 1999

·         Millennium in Maps: Cultures 1999

·         100 Years of Flight 2003

·         Bird Migration Eastern & Western Hemispheres 2004