geologywebresources

Geology Web Resources

Paul D

Paul Doherty's homepage:
www.exo.net/~pauld

Continental Drift movies of California by Prof. Tonya Atwater
http://www.geol.ucsb.edu/~atwater/Animations/Animations-FR.html

USGS

USGS, United States Geological Survey teacher pages
http://www.usgs.gov/tracks/teachers.html

USGS Earthquake hazards
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/

USGS Volcanos
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/

EXPLORATORIUM

Live from the Faultline, travel the San Andreas many activities.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/faultline/index.html
Interactive map of the breakup of Gondwanaland
http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/antarctica/ideas/gondwana2.html

APOD, Astronomy picture of the day, a fantastic image each day with science description.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

NASA

Hubble Heritage Gallery
http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/galindex.html
Best of Hubble
http://www.seds.org/hst/hst.html

National Space Science Data Center, a few images of all the planets.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/

Earth and Moon Viewer
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html

Moon from Clementine
http://www.nrl.navy.mil/clementine/

Mars Catalog
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov

Mars pathfinder image archive http:www.lpl.arizona.edu/IMP/imp

Craters

Hawaii Spacegrant activities
http://www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu/class_acts/CrateringDoc.html

John Domecus' web links, jadomecus@discover.earthlink.net

Geology Labs online, virtual eathquake etc.
http://www.sciencecourseware.com

Geologic time
http://oldsci.eiu.edu/geology/jorstad/geoltime.html

http://academic.udayton.edu/SusanKlosterman/Stratigraphy/strat_background.htm

Volcano information center
http://magic.geol.ucsb.edu/~fisher/

Volcano monitoring techniques.
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/monitors.html

Volcano list by country http://www.dartmouth.edu/~volcano/EvKcntry.html

Volcano types &endash;usgs http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/VolcanoTypes/volcano_types.html

Nebraska's web page on k &endash;12 geology
http://nesen.unl.edu/lessons/lessonlist.asp?topic=Geology

Glossary of rock terms with pictures http://www.amnh.org/rose/hope/creatinghope/glossary/bottom.html

Paleontology

Good exercise on relative dating http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/BarBar.html

Physics

Lots of virtual physics labs running on Java http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/java/index.html

High school virtual physics labs
http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~grichert/sciweb/mechanic.htm

Magnets

Magnet labs and resources http://education.magnet.fsu.edu/materials/magnets/magnets.html

Retail source for magnets
http://www.magnets-ceramic.com/edu/science.htm

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