Geological Survey Education
A collection of educational resources that can be used in the classroom to teach earth science concepts, and topics about the Earth that affect people every day and everywhere. (USGS)
United States Geological Survey
More than just maps. A very useful page for earth science educators.
Geoscience Education Homepage
Courses for teachers, educational resources, volcano and earthquake information. (University of Arizona)
National Geophysical Data Center
Environmental data in the fields of marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, solar-terrestrial physics, solid earth geophysics, and glaciology (snow and ice). (NOAA)
NOAA - National Geophysical Data Center Marine
Geology & Geophysics.
Geologylink
Daily geo-news updates, discussion forums, an expansive directory of links, virtual field trips, geology classes, and a glossary.
Agee Research
Investigating the origin and evolution of planetary interiors through high pressure experiments.
Ask-A-Geologist from U.S. Geological Survey
Ask a U.S. geologist a question using e-mail.
British Geological Survey (BGS)
Congleton geology: an amateur's guide
Continental Scientific Drilling Program
Earth Science Resources on the Internet
An Internet hyperlink to Earth Science resources designed for undergraduate courses. The page contains links to national and international sites relevant to Geoscience.
Earth System Science Community Curriculum
A holistic approach to the study of the Earth that stresses investigations of the interactions among the Earth's components in order to explain Earth dynamics, Earth evolution and global change
Envision
Interactive System for the Management and Visualization of Large Geophysical Data Sets
Geo Site
Welcome to LW´s Geo Site ! This geological site is a good starting point for amateurs and professionals.
Geodynamics at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Geologic History of Orcas Island, WA
The geologic history of this unique island in the Northwest United States.
Geologic/Geophysical data for the Middle East, N. Africa and Eurasia
Diversified datasets for the Middle East, North Africa and Eurasia. A profile maker, a focal mechanism maker and much more data and information are available.
Geological Institute BAS
Branch of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences specialized in education and research in geology.
Geologist's Lifetime Field List
A list of links to the geological wonders of the world.
Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism
Guglielmo's, Giovanni - Research Page
Giovanni Guglielmo Research Page contains free computer animations, 3-D visualizations, and interpretations of physical and finite element models of salt tectonics.
Indonesian Geology Resources
Resources of Indonesian geology, including mineral geology, geothermal, geotechnology and petroleum geology. Also brief hydrocarbon basin evaluation.
MTNet
A forum for the free exchange of programs and data between scientists engaged in the study of the Earth using electromagnetic methods.
Musical Sand
Information concerning musical sand in the world (singing sand on beach and booming sand in desert).
NASA Inspire Program
An effort to involve high school students and other interested participants in the study of Earth's fascinating naturally-occurring radio signals (VLF).
New York Geologic Resource Page
Resource page for New York State geologic information and information providers.
Northern California Geologic Hazards
Ocean Drilling Program
An international partnership of research institutions, forms the largest program in the earth sciences to date
Olympic-Wallowa lineament, Hite Fault system,and Columbia River Basalt
Text and figures of a Masters' thesis entitled: The Olympic-Wallowa Lineament, Hite Fault System, and Columbia River Basalt Group Stratigraphy in northeast Umatilla County, Oregon.
Online Resources for Earth Scientists
Rob's Granite Page
About granite, things granitic, and one man's quest for peer recognition.
Stratigraphy of the Black Hills
Paleozoic to recent.
Structural Geology on the Web
A deformed roadcut along the information superhighway.
Wolf's Den
Links for geology students.
World Data Center
Provides data and meta-data related to the geophysical and environmental sciences. Activities in the areas of solid earth geophysics, solar-terrestrial physics, marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, and glaciology.
An Overview of Dinosaur Tracking
Just what the name says, sans photos.
Geologic Time Table
Paleontology Web Sites
Online museums, professional organizations, academic departments and research, on-line resources, commercial sites, and "just-for-fun" links. (University of Michigan)
Earthwatch Research Project: Australia's Fossil Forests
Visit the magnificent Outback of South Australia and help scientists find, map, and photograph fossils of ancient Australian rainforests.
Electronic Prehistoric Shark Museum
Features fossil shark teeth (photos and descriptions) from the prehistoric Great White to the jaws of a modern-day shark.
Ice Age Paleoecology
Quaternary paleoecology: the study of past ecosystems and environments during the time of ice ages
New Zealand Prehistory and Biogeography
Photographs and text tracing the history of the biota of New Zealand.
PaleoNet Pages
Comprehensive and informative resource for paleontological professionals and graduate students.
Rad World
What radiolarians are and why they are significant to the geological study of orogenic belts in general, and the Canadian Cordillera in particular.
Strange Science
Misguided attempts to explain natural history, including honest and not-so-honest mistakes about dinosaurs, mammals, sea monsters and prehistoric beasts.
Companies
Ants
Reproductions of hominid, great ape and animal skulls, dinosaur bones and prehistoric trackways. 3-D pictures available.
Dinamation International Corporation -
Designs and produces a complete line of scientifically accurate products and services including life-size, animated dinosaurs.
Dino-Trekking
Guide about dinosaurs: museums, fossil exhibits, memorabilia and souvenirs; includes links to related Web sites.
Draw to Learn: Dinosaurs
SSoftware teaches 3D drawing techniques. Learn pencil and paper construction-line drawing skills. Learn about Dinosaurs while you draw them.
Exposaur Excursions
EExplore the fascinating world of vertebrate paleontology. Work alongside professional palaeontolgists excavating a 67 million year old dinosaur.
Smithsonian Institution Dinosaur Museum
Interactive museums, library, educational games, and dinosaur hall of fame. Dinosaur movies and 3-D fossil skeletons and life-like dioramas.
Torrence
Create life-size dinosaurs. Also reproduce replica fossils and bones.
World of Dinosaurs is Alive
DinoWorks presents life-sized, hand-crafted dinosaur skeleton models.
Dinosaurs
Paper Dinosaurs, 1824-1969
Virtual catalog of an exhibition of rare books and journals illustrating the early history of dinosaur discovery and restoration.
Dann's Dinosaur Reconstructions
Mostly Australian dinosaurs information and illustrations.
Dino Russ's Lair (Earthnet Info Server)
Provide earth science information especially in the areas of paleontology -- dinosaurs
Dino-mania
Fourth graders bring dinosaurs to life through music, poetry, and art.
Dino-mite 4th Graders
Our fourth graders have begun a science unit all about dinosaurs! We'll be researching, writing stories and creating all kinds of cool Dino projects. Here's a few of our story starters for you to try.
Dino-Trekking
Guide about dinosaurs: museums, fossil exhibits, memorabilia and souvenirs; includes links to related Web sites.
Dinosaur Art and Modeling
A forum for artists and modelers specializing in dinosaurs.
Dinosaur Dictionary
Pictures and short descriptions of different dinosaurs. Includes sound files for name pronunciation.
Dinosaur Eggs
ANational Geographic Special. Watch fossil researchers as they ÒhatchÓ fossilized dinosaur eggs to reveal the embryos inside.
Dinosaur Society
Provides grants for research in the dinosaur sciences. The site includes information on current digs.
Dinosaur Volcano-Greenhouse Extinction
The Deccan Traps mantle plume volcanism 65 million years ago triggered greenhouse climatic warming and the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Dinosauria On-Line
Dinosaur articles, discussions and essays, dinosaur reference materials (some available nowhere else), and dinosaur products to buy. Home of The DinoStore, Jeff's Journal of Dinosaur Paleontology, and The Dinosaur Mailing List Omnipedia.
Dinosaurs at the University of Texas at Dallas
Dinosaur research. Dinosaur courses
Diplodocus
Build your own from the ground up. Requires the Shockwave plug-in.
Eccles Dinosaur Park
5 acre outdoor museum filled with realistic sculptures of more than 100 dinosaur.
Fossil Vertebrates at the Burke Museum
Catalog of over 43,000 fossil fish, reptile, dinosaur, bird and mammal specimens, with an expanding series of photographs.
Guide to Dinosaur Sites in Western Colorado and Eastern Utah
Including Dinosaur National Monument, the Mygatt Moore Quarry, Riggs Hill, and Dinosaur Hill.
Honolulu Community College Dinosaur Exhibit
These "fossils" are replicas from the originals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, which boasts one of the finest and largest collections of dinosaur fossils in the world.
Jonathan's Utahraptor Page
A dinosaur of the Cretaceous period.
K-T Extinction Theories
Describes the major theories on why the dinosaurs, and other animals became extinct.
Mike Keesey's Dinosaur Page
Contains in-depth essays on all types of dinosaurs, detailed cladistic classification, many illustrations, a service to answer any questions about dinosaurs.
Page d'accueil sur les dinosaures
Russian Academy of Sciences - Paleontological Institute
Showing dinosaurs found in Mongolia.
Scotty: the Tyrannosaurus Rex at Eastend, Saskatchewan
The "virtual" home of Scotty, the Tyrannosaurus Rex recently unearthed at Eastend, Saskatchewan, in the Valley of Hidden Secrets.
Stewart Wright's Paleo Page
Lots of information, links, and Micheal Skrepnick dinosaur art.
Thunder Lizards : From Science to Fiction
Everything you ever wanted to know about dinosaurs but were afraid to ask.
Fossils
Calcite Palace
Information and pictures of nanofossils.
Dave's Eocene Fossils
Images of Eocene Green River fossils 48 million years old.
Fossil Page
Includes the fossil photo gallery, and links to more sites.
Fossil Vertebrates at the Burke Museum
Catalog of over 43,000 fossil fish, reptile, dinosaur, bird and mammal specimens, with an expanding series of photographs.
Fossils of New Jersey
Includes photos and informations on amber, vertebrate, invertebrate and plant fossils from the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods.
Gulf of St. Lawrence Microfossils: Late Quaternary Foraminiferida and Ostracoda
The site provides a searchable database of 554 images of foraminiferal and ostacod species, and modern distribution data for some of the species.
Kansas Fossils
Images of Pennsylvanian-Cretaceous fossils.
Prem's Fossil Gallery
Contains pictures and information on fossils collected by the author.
Amber
Amber Inclusion Images
Photographs and stereograms.
Amber, A View of the Past
Amber is formed from the resins of certain trees. The is an article published in The Science Teacher magazine, 1994
Amber: Window to the Past
From the American Museum of Natural History.
Organic Flypaper
From The Whyfiles.
Suspended in Time
From the Smithsonian Institution's Imprints of the Past Exhibit.
World of Amber
Properties, occurrence, museums, and gemology.
Hominid Fossils
Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution in China
Introduction to the study of human evolution in China featuring a picture gallery of specimens.
Paleo Vegetation
An atlas and database concerning the world's vegetation for various stages since the last ice age.
Geomorphology Resources
Very comprehensive. (Miami University)
Virtual Geomorphology
This is an electronic textbook with many links to scientific papers diffused worldwide.
Geomorphology
Electronic version of popular geomorphology book and various other online resources of interest to geomorphologists.
IGCP Project "Anthropogenic Weathering Processes"
Bedform Sedimentology
Bedform images, software, and QuickTime movies.
Wind Erosion
Current research in wind erosion and associated social issues. (USDA)
Erosion of a Coastal Sea Stack
Very cool photographic survey starting in 1890 showing the progressive erosion of a sea stack in Oregon through 1990. (USGS)
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Distributed Hydrologic Modeling
Free Groundwater Modeling Software
Global Hydrologic Data Center
Offers very low cost data to the Earth Science Research community as well as the K-12 schools for educational purposes.
Groundwater Issues and Resources
groundwater.com
Groundwater.com web site featuring the Groundwater Mailing List (over 2000 members), and links to many environmental and geology web sites.
Paleoclimate: Hydrology at the Dawn of History
Recent data from many sources suggests a major climatic disturbance about 5000 years ago.
RiverTools
RiverTools is a data exploration environment for digital terrain and river network analysis.
SWAT/GRASS On-line
The official site of the on-line SWAT/GRASS user's manual.
UK Groundwater Forum
Focus for a coordinated national (UK) groundwater research agenda; reference point for groundwater research, issues, policy, and personal contacts.
USGS Pesticide National Synthesis Project
Contains pesticide use maps, facts, and other informative resources.
Watflood - Distributed Hydrologic Model
Research and presentation of our DHL.
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
One of 16 national research centers in Germany, with lots of continental drift information.
Active Tectonics
Tectonic Evolution With Weldon Beauchamp
Tctonic evolution of the Atlas Mountains, North Africa.
Online Plate Motion Calculator
Use this to determine the relative movement of any two landmasses.
Ocean-Floor Tectonics
A searchable database.
Pacific Ocen Floor
Deep-sea images.
Movies
Movies from marine geology research.
Geology Software
Free computer software for structural geology applications.
More Free/Shareware for Structural Geology
The directory is pub/rwa_programs/.
GPS Project
Graduate student project researching crustal spreading cycles on Iceland using GPS and the east pacific rise.
Volcano World
Very slick page, and relevant: Includes "What's Erupting Now", "Exploring Earth's Volcanoes" ,"Volcanoes of Other Worlds," and many others. Best if you have a graphical browser, but still useful if you don't. (University of North Dakota)
Photographs of Mt. Spurr
Mount Spurr erupted in 1992 in Alaska.
Mount St. Helens
A slide set of images from the 1980-81 eruptions of Mount St. Helens.
Images of Recent Eruptions
More Images of Recent Eruptions
Earth's Active Volcanoes
A complete map of the Earth's active volcanoes, broken down by twelve geographic regions.
Virtually Hawaii
A virtual reality tour of the Kilauea volcano.
The Electronic Volcano
Lots of stuff on active volcanoes, including maps, photographs, and text.
Volcano Watch
A newsletter published for the residents of the Big Island of Hawaii.
Grimsvotn Project
Graduate student project researching the seismic phenomena associated with the 1996 eruption.
Current Earthquake Information
Additional Current Earthquake Information
Earthquake Damage Photos
Northridge Earthquake
A three-dimensional computer simulation.
Geysers Project
Graduate student project researching induced seismicity and environmental change at the geysers geothermal area, California.
Seismicity Maps
Earthquake Preparedness Information
From FEMA.
More Earthquake Preparedness Information
Nuclear Monitoring Technology
Enhancing the international community's ability to accurately analyze seismic events and determine whether they are related to the underground testing of nuclear weapones.