General Useful Web-based Sources

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Earth Environments: Past, Present, and Future – Weblinks

Chapter 3 – Energy in the Atmosphere and the Earth Heat Budget

3.1 – Earth Materials

Comprehensive geology links http://www.scienceman.com/pgs/00_links_geology.html

Also the journal Tectonophysics page for Earth Science links.

The Nine Planets: A Multimedia tour of the Solar System http://nineplanets.org

Space: Planet Earth http://www.space.com/earth e.g. Mount St. Helens: Past and Present, images, stories http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?imgid=29328&gid=223&inde x=0

Science and Space http://www.science.nationalgeographic.com

For a range of Earth topics.

Online Cyber Earth Sciences from the lecture notes of Professor S.A.Nelson (Tulane University) http://www.earthsci.org/mineral/mineral.html

http://www.earthsci.org/education/teacher/basicgeol/contents.html

Sedimentary Rocks

http://www.earthsci.org/education/basicgeol/sed/sed.html

Interactive Rock Cycle Animation http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es0602/es0602pag e02.cfm

Minerals and Rocks at School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, UK http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/resources/collection/minerals/GY105/index.html

Excellent photographs of rock and mineral specimens.

Atlas of igneous and metamorphic rocks, minerals and textures http://www.geolab.unc.edu/Petunia/IgMetAtlas/mainmenu.html

Website constructed to aid undergraduate instruction at the Geology Department of the University of North Carolina.

Virtual Dating http://sciencecourseware.com/VirtualDating

Interactive exercise about Geologic Time.

3.2 – Internal Structure of the Earth

Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Geomagnetism http://www.geology.usgs.gov/index.htm

Earthquakes Hazard Program from the United States Geological Survey http://www.earthquake.usgs/gov

Information, resources, animations, images and useful links.

Surface and Interior of Earth http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Interior_Structure/overview.html

Windows to the Universe, Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). © The Regents of the

University of Michigan.

3.3 – Plate Tectonics and Volcanism

Plate Tectonics http://www.platetectonics.com/index.asp

Description, ocean floor map and article archive.

This Dynamic Planet: World Map from the United States Geological Survey http://www.pubs.usgs.gov/imap/2800

Full explanation of the map which shows the physiographic features volcanoes, earthquakes, impact craters and plate tectonics in an article by Simkin, T. et al (2006).

The ABCs of Plate Tectonics http://www.Webspinners.com/dlblanc/tectonic/ptABCs:/php

Analysis of the principles by Donald L. Blanchard.

Plate Tectonic Animations: process of subduction http://www.norton.com/college/geo/egeo/animations/ch2.html#9

PLATES project: a research program into plate tectonics and geologic reconstructions http://www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/plates

Includes plate reconstructions from various time periods, including the future, and from a series of regions, including the Indian Ocean, Antarctica and the Arctic.

Paleomap Project http://www.scotese.com

Plate Tectonics http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html

Volcanism Information on the latest eruptions http://www.scienceblogs.com/eruptions/usgs

Smithsonian’s Global Volcanism Program http://www.volcano.si.edu

For worldwide Holocene volcano and eruption information.

Stromboli information/images/video clips, virtual walks, interactive panoramas, bomb flight simulation, volcano cams, photoglossary and volcano links http://swissedu.ch/stromboli/index-en.html

The Volcanism Blog http://www.volcanism.worldpress.com

For news, posts, information and geoblogs.

Science of Volcanology http://volcanolive.com/science.html

For topics and quick links.

Volcano World http://volcano.oregonstate.edu

For Hawaiian volcanoes, Mount St.Helens, Submarine volcanoes, volcanic gas, glossary, volcano topics.

Volcanoes of Alaska http://www.virtual-geology.info/vft.html

Black Smokers from the American Museum of Natural History Expeditions http://www.amnh.org/nationalcentre/expeditions/blacksmokers/black_smokers.html

Description of black smokers, their location and significance in helping to develop a broader understanding of Earth dynamics.

Virtual Field Trip: Iceland http://www.ismennt.is/vefir/earth/mhcur/keilir.htm

Kilauea Virtual Field Trips http://www.satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/space/hawaiivfts/kilaueavfts.html

Windows to the Universe: Plate Tectonics http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/interior/plate_tectonics.html

Windows to the Universe, at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). © The

Regents of the University of Michigan.

Plate Tectonics, the Cause of Earthquakes http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/plate-tectonics.html

3.4 – Geotectonics

San Andreas Fault from the United States Geological Survey

http://www.pubs.usgs.gov/gi[p/earthq3/contents.html

Case study.

Nevada tectonic activity from the Nevada Seismological Laboratory http://seismo.unr.edu

Information and images.

Fault motion from Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington http://www.ins.edu/gifs/animations/faults.htm

Description of 4 major fault types illustrated by animations and with links to more extensive and complex discussion of faulting.

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