Physical Science Department Pam Nelson Geology Instructor

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Geology-Related Links

This page is ALWAYS under construction. Check out the GCC Geology web links page, too!!

General Geology:

• Virtual Geology Labs - Includes Virtual Earthquake, Virtual Dating, and (soon) Virtual Flooding and Streams
• Fun Geology Games - Includes crosswords & hang-man on various topics
• Geology Today (by Houghton Mifflin Co.) includes The Earth Today (most recent activity) and Geology in the News among others.

 

Plate Tectonics:

• Plate Tectonic Source Site
• This Dynamic Earth (Plate Tectonics) - on-line version of USGS Publication
• PBS: A Science Odyssey - You Try It: Plate Tectonics - Shockwave hands-on demo of plate motion & Great Introduction.
• Predicting Plate Motion - Use earthquake & volcano data to predict plate movement

 

Minerals

Good Mineral Photos - by Lynn S. Fichter

Mineral Information and Games - San Diego Natural History Museum (built for kids)

The Mineralogy Database: Learn crystallography & x-ray diffraction -OR- just view their mineral collection photos! This collection is QUITE extensive!

Minerals & Metals: An exploration presented by National Resources of Canada. One especially fun part of this page is finding where minerals and metals are hiding in your home or staking a claim at a your own mine! Take a tour!

Microscopy & Mineral Images - Although this is a personal collection of images, there are some really cool images to view of minerals, rocks, meteorites and silicic diatoms (a floating single-celled organism with a "quartz" skeleton). If you have 3D glasses, you're ready to fly!

Rocks (General) and Igneous & Metamorphic Rocks:

Igneous Metamorphic, & Sedimentary Rock Info - Constructed for University of British Columbia Petrology Class (GLG221) Good information and includes minerals/rocks in thin section.

RockDoctor - Includes quizzes and information on identification of minerals & rocks

Atlas of Igneous & Metamorphic Rocks, Minerals & Textures (under the microscope)

Igneous Rocks Tour - Good photos of igneous rocks showing mineral ID

An Introduction to the Igneous Rocks (Lynn S. Fichter) - shows pictures and textural classifications

Metamorphic Rocks & Photos (Lynn S. Fichter)

Volcanology:

• Cascades Volcano Observatory
• Volcanoes Online
• USGS Volcanology Site Index - Good definitions of common terms & Links to Hazard Programs
• Can We Predict Volcanic Eruptions? (Annenberg production) - Great site on basics & prediction
• The Electronic Volcano ? Introductory studies in a number of different languages

Sedimentary Rocks, Sedimentary Depositional Structures & Depositional Environments:

Sedimentary Rocks & Photos (Lynn S. Fichter)

Textures & Thin Sections of Sedimentary Rocks & Depositional Structures (Duke Geology 041 Course)

Erosion: Wind, Water, and Ice

Sedimentary Structures & Stratigraphic Features (Pamela Gore) - Try your hand at identifying some of these structures! (Answers are not provided)

Sedimentary Structures from Duke University - Page 1 - Page 2 - Two pages of detailed images and descriptions of bedding structures and depositional structures. Lots of images.

Sedimentary Structures - Powerpoint presentation on-line includes good images (John J Smetanka - St. Vincent)

Sedimentary Structures - UBC-Historical Geology

Depositional Environments (Pam Nelson & Steve Reynolds - GCC/ASU)

Depositional Environment Lab (Pamela Gore) - Excellent Images

Clastic Depositional Environments - UBC - Excellent images of rocks found in each area! (Many are core samples)

Depositional Environments - images and structures (University of Oregon)

Glacial Geology - GLG445 @ Montana State University

Glacial Links - 250 places to look at glacial information and photos!

Glacial Geology photos & information (University of Oregon)

Glacial Geology Photo Gallery - Maine Dept. of Conservation - Geological Survey

USGS Coastal & Marine Geology Program

Structural Geology (Geologic Deformation):

Structural Geology Resources - A good set of resources of images, books, etc. originally designed by an OU grad student.

Earthquakes & Other Hazards:

• MCC Seismic Page - Look at the earthquakes and fault animation!
• Worldwide Disaster Page: (amateur production) - listing of volcano eruptions, EQs, etc. recently
• Earthquakes - General explanation and information.

Topography/Geomorphology (Landforms)

• Color Landform Images of the Topography for the United States - Color digital terrane maps for all 50 states
• Aerial photos of the US - down to 1m resolution in some cases!

Arizona Geology & Miscellaneous

• Steve Reynolds' ASU Homepage - Lots of applied Geology exercises & other links.
• Arizona Sedimentary Geology & Paleontological Resource

National Parks and Park Information

• Carlsbad Caverns National Park
• Permian Reef Complex in the Guadalupe Mtns National Park - Information on its formation and its fossils

 

Historical Geology General:

• Theories about the Origin and Evolution of Life (including work by Leslie Orgel & Stephen J. Gould)
• Historical Geology (GLG 102) resources for University of Georgia course - VERY THOROUGH!!
• Interactive Geologic Time Scale ? links to paleogeography & geology maps per period (Go to Geologic Time Chart on left-hand frame)
• Lycos - Fact Monster? fun science & math facts. Search the encyclopedia for each individual historical period to get a detailed description of what happened then.
• Historical Reconstructions of the Globe during Periods of Earth's History

Dinosaurs, Giant Mammals and Paleontology:

• Zoom Dinosaurs - Good Search Resouce
• Discovery channel ? Fossil Zone ? concentrates on dinosaurs
• Discovery Channel - Fossil Zone - Dinosaur Survival Game!! Excellent resources, but you need appropriate (T1?) connection speed to play correctly.
• Jurassic Park Institute - WOW!!!
• Seven Steppes to a Woolly Mammoth ? A fun quiz that describes the evolution of the wolly mammoth.
• Ice Ages Explained ? Illinois State Museum
• Glacial Activity and a bit about the most recent Ice Age - Part of a Hartwick College field trip
• Map of Temperature Differences between now & 18000 years ago (the end of the last ice age) - German Climate Computing Centre:
• The Big Chill ? Explanations for the most recent ice age
• Ice Age Animals of Utah
• Ice Age Mammals
• The Mammoth Saga - Swedish Museum of Natural History
• The Mammoth Site at Hot Springs, South Dakota
• Mammoth Migration Map ? animated?
• UC Berkely Museum of Paleontology
• USGS Paleontology Group
• The Burgess Shale
• See Permian Reef Complex - above - in National Parks section

Planetary:

• Mars Global Surveyor Home Page
• Pitt's Planetary Science and Education Outreach Page
• NASA's Planetary Photojournal
• Mars "Mapmaker" using Viking Images
• NASA Ames Research Center Educator Resource Center

General Science or Biology/Chemistry/Physics:

• Interactive Periodic Table of Elements

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