Geology / Earth Science Links

Geology  / Earth Sciences

Volcanoes

Volcano World Data Center - U North Dakota Aerospace team
Volcano listings, a tutorial, "Ask a Volcanologist", and news.

Volcanoes! - "talk story" - Project ALERT, Jet propulsion Lab
Essentially a volcano tutorial about volcanoes in the Pacific rim.

Volcanoes & Earthquakes - WedNet from NASA & SAIC
Lessons about the Mt. St. Helens Blast Zone Recovery, Today's Earthquake Activity, and some background material. Plenty of images and teacher discussion guides.

Volcanoes - Michigan Technological University
Information about current global volcanic activity, research in remote sensing of volcanoes and their eruptive products, hazard mitigation, "Decade Volcanoes", links to government agencies and research institutions, and even some volcano humor.

Earthquakes

National Earthquake Information Center - US Geological Survey
Near-real-time earthquake bulletins.

Recent Earthquakes!! latest earthquake report - US Bureau of Reclamation. Maps can also be selected that locate the earthquake epicenter.

USGS Pasadena Earth Quake Information
Good Site for every thing you wanted to know about earth quakes. Contains many excellent links.

TriNet SHAKE MAP Home Page
TriNet is a new generation of earthquake mapping that's the equivalent of calling a friend to ask: did you feel it?   This new system can make some fairly accurate assessments of how strongly a quake shook in the different areas.

Seimological Labortory (California Institute of Technology)

World-Wide Earthquake Locator - B. Gittings, U. of Edinburgh.
The Locator accesses data at the National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) in Golden, Colorado. ...it retrieves data about recent earthquakes and thus information is available on any earthquake within hours of it taking place. Maps are provided [and] can be saved from your Web Browser, or printed, for later use.

Make your own seismogram!- UC Berkeley & U. of Arizona
Vary the parameters to your liking! Also images of digital seismograms of selected past large earthquakes worldwide.

Make your own seismogram!- U. of Arizona
Select the parameters to your liking!

Virtual Earth Quake - This Could be a advanced for K-6
Virtual earthquake is an interactive computer program designed to introduce you to the concepts of how an earthquake EPICENTER is located and how the RICHTER MAGNITUDE of an earthquake is determined. The Virtual earthquake computer program is running on a World Wide Web Server at California State University at Los Angeles. You can interact with Virtual earthquake through your Web browser, provided your browser supports "forms".

Minerals and Crystals

SMITHSONIAN GEM & MINERAL COLLECTION - Smithsonian photos by D.A. Penland
About 100 marvelous pictures.

Electronic Gemstone Library - Canadian Institute of Gemmology
"[These] gemstones are the more popular ones usually set in jewellery found in retail-stores."

The Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom - H. Friedman
Minerals, gemstones, mineral resources, glossary - sort by color, streak, hardness, crystal group, chemical group, alphabetically, elemental affiliation with pictures.

EXPLORER science curriculum K-12 - University of Kansas
1000's of lessons in science and mathematics: usually need ClarisWorks or equivalent to use. Find via Natural Science -> Earth Science -> Geosphere -> Earth's Structure & Changes (erosion, earthquakes, volcanoes, pollution) and Geology (general, rocks, minerals, tectonics) = 61 lessons

THE MINERAL GALLERY - Amethyst Galleries, Inc
"The Mineral Gallery is a constantly growing collection of mineral descriptions and images together with several ways of accessing these descriptions." Databases include: Minerals by Name; Physical Characteristics of Minerals; Minerals by Class such as Oxides and Silicates; etc.

Athena Minerology - Genève (Geneva), Suisse (Switzerland)
Very Large resource of databases that include mineral pictures, elements, and a search engine.

Minerals in Thin Section - Department of Earth & Ocean Science, University of British Columbia, Canada Very Large database.

Dinosaurs

Learning from the Fossil Record - UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
Essays, activities, and lesson plans on fossils, paleontology, and the geologic time scale.

UC BERKELEY MUSEUM OF PALEONTOLOGY
Interactive natural history museum in which you can select the geological time period of your interest via "On-line Exhibits".

DINOSAUR EXHIBIT & NARRATED TOUR - Honolulu Community College
Interactive dinosaur museum which shows fossils from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

DNA To Dinosaurs - Field Museum of Natural History - Chicago, IL
Visual tour of the history of dinosaurs (and mammals long ago). Images, mpeg movies and AUDIO.

DNA To Dinosaurs - Field Museum of Natural History - Chicago, IL
Visual tour of the history of dinosaurs (and mammals long ago). Also fossil pages. Images, mpeg movies and AUDIO.

Windows on the Universe (University of Michigan)
A panorama of eaarth and space sciences.  Covers earth and space sciences including sections about the Universe and the planets of our Solar System. Includes three levels of inquiry, beginner, intermediate and advanced.  Student lessons and teacher answer keys and resources are included . **** Rating.

Last Updated August 2nd, 1998