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Alberta Geological Survey

  • The Geological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin
    "The intent of the this version of the Geological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin is to widen the availability of both the material presented in the printed volume as well as to provide wide access to much of the underlying digital data."
    Compiled by G.D. Mossop, and I Shetsen, 1994.

British Geological Survey

Bulletin of the Seismographic Stations

Calvin Photographic Collection
 "Samuel Calvin, Professor of Natural Sciences at the University of Iowa (1873-1911) and State Geologist, took more than 5,000 glass plate negatives, which he used to illustrate specific geological features for class instruction, public lectures, and publications. The photographic techniques are of high quality, and the images are as aesthetically pleasing as they are geologically informative...In addition to geological landscapes and features, Calvin documented mines, quarries, mills, and other buildings. The collection also contains portraits of his family, colleagues, and classes in the field. While Calvin may have taken most photographs to exhibit geological features, the images are beautifully composed. Calvin did the developing himself, producing rich blacks and a full range of grays."

  • "Fixing the Image- Samuel Calvin's Vision of Iowa" - (dead link)
  • Calvin Image Database - (dead link)
  • Calvin's Scrapbook - (dead link)

Canada's Digital Collections

Canadian Rockhound
Canada's Earth Science Magazine
"...Canada's free online earth science magazine for collectors, beginners and schools. This website introduces beginners and children to the world of rocks, minerals, fossils, gemstones and Canada's geology. It also serves as an online resource for collectors. Here you will find more than one hundred online articles related to the earth sciences."

Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes- A Magnitude 9.0 Earthquake Scenario [.pdf]
- Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup publication, 2005.

Catalog of Historically Active Volcanoes of Alaska - (dead link)
"By T.P. Miller, R.G. McGimsey, D.H. Richter, J.R. Riehle, C.J. Nye, M.E. Yount, and J.A. Dumoulin. U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Open-File Report 98-582, 104 pages, 102 figures. Alaska Volcano Observatory, Alaska, 1998."

Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)
"Resources in DLESE include lesson plans, scientific data, visualizations, interactive computer models, and virtual field trips - in short, any web-accessible teaching or learning material. Many of these resources are organized in collections, or groups of related resources that reflect a coherent, focused theme. In many ways, digital collections are analogous to collections in traditional bricks-and-mortar libraries."

Digital Tectonic Activity Map
"The Digital Tectonic Activity Map (DTAM) is a new visualization tool for both researcher and educator alike to better understand tectonic activity of our planet for the past 1 million years. DTAM is a Geographical Information System (GIS) that displays a realistic synoptic view of present global tectonism by filling in the cartographic gap between conventional geological maps and plate reconstruction maps."
- NASA

Earthquake (02/28/01) Damage to University of Washington Libraries

Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering (EJGE)

Geofisica Internacional - (dead link) Revista de la Union Geofisica Mexicana auspiciada por el Instituto de Geofisica de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Geologic Guidebooks of North America Database - (dead link)
"The database consists of references to geologic field trip guidebooks of North America. Most of the guidebooks cited are from the period 1940-1988...The guidebook database contains the information in the print publication The Union List of Geologic Field Trip Guidebooks of North America, sixth edition, compiled and edited by the Geoscience Information Society Guidebooks Committee, Richard Spohn, Chair, and published by the American Geological Institute in 1996."
From the Geoscience Information Society

Geological Maps on the Web - (dead link)
"...a venue for publication of geological mapping results. The geological data for each map area are available as raw data in two GIS formats, and as graphic products."
By R.A. Black, Structural Geology Laboratory, Dept. of Geology, University of Kansas

Geology by Lightplane
"While it is important to have detailed ground-based slides to illustrate geological features for introductory classes, a few shots from the air help to establish their overall relationship ... These air photos have been very useful in my teaching. I think they can be useful teaching aids for others. I have copyrighted the digital image files, but I am making 335 of them available at no cost for noncommercial educational use."
By Louis J. Maher, Geology Dept., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Geology Labs On-Line - (dead link)
"...is a comprehensive project to develop Web-based lab activities that enhance the learning and teaching of Geology and other Earth and Environmental Science topics for introductory College and High School courses...These "Virtual" labs are interactive where students learn by "doing" and not just clicking and viewing."
By Gary A. Novak, California State University, Los Angeles

Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Software Directory
"...catalogues 1240 programs in the fields of Geotechnical Engineering, Soil Mechanics, Rock Mechanics, Engineering Geology, Foundation Engineering, Hydrogeology, Geoenvironmental Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Data Analysis and Data Visualisation and lists 757 worldwide suppliers and publishers of these programs."
Compiled by Tom Spink

Global Earth History
Regional Paleogeographic Views of Earth History
"This presentation uses a series of paleogeographic and plate-tectonic reconstructions to show the broad patterns of Phanerozoic Earth history. Organization is by region and in geologic order from oldest to youngest for each region. The Time Slice link shows all maps and globes of all regions by geologic time (the Periods)."
By Dr. Ron Blakey, Professor of Geology, Northern Arizona University

Glossary of Glacier Terms
By Ellin Beltz

Guadalupe Mountains
An Introduction and Virtual Geologic Field Trip to the Permian Reef Complex, Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains, New Mexico-West Texas.
"This site offers a virtual field trip to the classic Permian reef complex and other geologic features of the Guadalupe Mountains. It contains an introduction plus several roadlogs with diagrams, photographs, and movies, as well as an extensive bibliography in order to provide a balanced presentation for a geology student audience."
By Dr. Peter Scholle, Geology Dept., New Mexico Tech

  • The Permian Reef Complex (Delaware Basin) of West Texas - (dead link)
    Slide show written by K.A. Grimm, compiled by K. Simpson and M.N. Lanberson, University of British Columbia

Guide to the World Data System - (dead link)
International Council of Scientific Unions

Imaging Everest
"To mark the anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953, the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) in conjunction with the British Council in Nepal has created an exhibition called Imaging Everest from its collection of approximately 20,000 photographs taken on the nine Mount Everest Expeditions between 1921 and 1953. These expeditions were jointly organized by the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club. The exhibition shows the importance of the landscape and people of the Himalayan region and tells the story of those involved in the first attempts to climb Everest ...This website provides an online version of the Imaging Everest exhibition and enables people all over the world to share this remarkable collection of photographs.
Sections include: The History of Everest ; Everest Expeditions in the 1920s and 1930s ; Tibetan People ; Religion in Tibet and Nepal ; Nepal in the 1950s ; Sherpas ; Tenzing and Hillary ; Mount Everest Expedition 1953 ; Biographies ; Everest Slideshow.
- The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

International Journal of  Earth Sciences:  Geologische Rundschau

JOIDES Journal - (dead link)

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology - (dead link)

El NiÒo, La NiÒa, and freshwater resources
By M.H. Glantz, published in Our Planet, (4), 27-29.

LandView
The Federal Geographic Data Viewer
"LandView reflects the collaborative efforts of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to produce a "Federal Geographic Data Viewer" that provides the public ready access to published Federal spatial and related data."

Library of Congress - Exhibitions

  • Earth As Art: A Landsat Perspective
    "This exhibition showcases Landsat 7 images, from the collection of Landsat photographs held in the Geography and Map Division, which have been selected for aesthetic rather than scientific value."

NASA's Visible Earth
 "a searchable directory of images, visualizations, and animations of the Earth" As of 03/11/01 the database contains over 1600 images.

National Academy Press (free online versions)

Natural Resources Canada

  • Geological Survey of Canada - (dead link)
    • Canadian Landscapes - (dead link)
      "This collection of photos of Canadian Landscapes and landforms is presented as a public service to illustrate the great diversity of Canadian scenery."
    • Geophysical Atlas - (dead link)
      "...is a series of maps that provide a unique insight into the make-up of the Canadian landmass and its immediate offshore regions."

National Science Foundation

New York University - Center on International Cooperation

  • Conflict Prevention, Recovery and Peacebuilding - (dead link)
    • Afghanistan Reconstruction Project - (dead link)
      • Geothermal Energy in Afghanistan- Prospects and Potential - (dead link) [.doc]
        By Saba, D. S., Najaf, M. E., Musazai, A. M., and Taraki, S. A.
        "This paper is the first product of the Afghanistan Center for Policy and Development Studies, a policy research institute founded by Afghans in Kabul with the support of the Center on International Cooperation."

Paleomagnetism: Magnetic Domains to Geologic Terranes
Full-text of the book originally published by Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1992.
By Robert F. Bulter.

Palaeontologia Electronica - (dead link)

Paper dinosaurs, 1824-1969 - (dead link) An Exhibition of Original Publications from the Collections of the Linda Hall Library
"What follows is a hypertext catalog of the exhibition. It proceeds through all forty-nine items of the exhibition, but includes links to thirty-five more works that could not be accommodated in the exhibition hall. There are 136 original images."

Prediction in the Earth Sciences: Use and Misuse in Policy Making - (dead link)
Includes Workshop and Project papers

"Potential for large-scale submarine slope failure and tsunami generation along the US mid-Atlantic coast" [.pdf]
Article from the journal Geology, by Neal W. Driscoll, Jeffrey K. Weissel, and John A. Goff.

A Report Summarizing the Statistical Modeling of Volcanic Risk Studies at the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository
By Chih-Hsiang Ho, University of Nevada, Las Vegas December, 1996

Rocking the Parks: Geological Stories of the National Parks
Online textbook by Richard B. Alley

Seismocam Homepage - (dead link) Southern California Seismographic Network
A Cooperative Project of Caltech and the U.S. Geological Survey

Shale Photos
"a collection of images from various research projects."
By J¸rgen Schieber, Department of Geology, University of Texas, Arlington

Software and Data for Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibrium Calculations in Geology - (dead link) Sections include: Igneous Petrology ; Metamorphic Petrology ; Aqueous Geochemistry ; Commercial Sites ; Web Directories ; Programming Tools.
By Terry Gordon, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, University of Calgary

U.S. Army Corp of Engineers

U.S. Department of Agriculture

  • National List of Published Soil Surveys - (dead link)

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Publications see Geology Resources - USGS

University of Colorado - Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center
Information on Human Adaptation to Disaster

University of Toronto Libraries Digital Collections

  • The Barren Lands
    J.B. Tyrrell's Expeditions for the Geological Survey of Canada, 1892-1894
    "This site documents two exploratory surveys of the Barren Lands region west of Hudson Bay, in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan and the area now known as Nunavut. Drawing on materials from the J.B. Tyrrell, James Tyrrell and related collections at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, it includes over 5,000 images from original field notebooks, correspondence, photographs, maps and published reports."

Virtual and On-line Geologic Field Trip Guides: United States and Canada
"We have listed web pages that contain descriptive local geological or earth science information for the United States or Canada (excluding reports of field trips containing only photos with no explanatory text). We have also included links to downloadable versions of published paper texts."
- University of Texas at Austin - Walter Geology Library

Volcano Cams

  • Volcanocam from Mount St. Helens
     Live image from Johnston Ridge Observatory, Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument
  • Volcano Popocatepetl Cam (Mexico) - (dead link)

World Energy Project - World And Regional Assessment Summaries - (dead link)
"The data available on this page is a compilation of World Energy Project (WEP) assessment results.  The WEP assessment estimates the volume of oil and gas, exclusive of the U.S., that may be added to the world's reserve in the next 30 years.  Additional data will be placed on these pages as they are processed, documented, and released."

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