UT Dept. of
Geological Sciences : The University of Texas at
Austin Department of Geological Sciences page
--information about the Department and its programs of
study and research.
Mindat is "the largest
mineral database and mineralogical reference website on the internet. This site
contains worldwide data on minerals, mineral localities and other mineralogical
information."
Journals:
Earth Science Journals from the National Centre for
Petroleum Geology and Geophysics in Australia is a good
site for links to a large number of earth science
e-journals.
Electronic Journals available online at the University of Texas at Austin Libraries' web page.
(Note: some of these titles are restricted to UT Austin students, faculty and staff.)
The Dumble Survey Online full text of the publications of the Geological Survey of Texas 1887-1894 (usually called the "Dumble Survey", from E. T. Dumble, the State Geologist during those years.) Provided by the University of Texas at Austin the University of Texas Libraries.
Maps:
Aerial Photography Field Office of the United States Department of Agriculture contains over 10,000,000 images dating back to 1955.
California Geographic
Survey of the California State University,
Northridge's Geography Dept. has California and other
mapping resources.
Field Camps: A listing of summer field camps from
Syracuse University.
Geologic Book Dealers
and Publishers is a listing maintained by the University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana
of not only book delaers, but geology society publications, maps, and government
publications.
Geologic Time Clickable geologic time scale made available by the University of California Museum of Paleontology
Geology (ICE) at Cornell has links to a wide range of
earth-science internet sites
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program is an international research program that explores the history and structure of the earth as recorded in seafloor sediments and rocks.
Ocean Drilling
Program from Texas A&M provides information on
the global ODP/JOIDES program.
Publications of the ODP, containing online access to the Scientific Prospectus and Preliminary Report of each cruise, and the Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling
Program, including the
Initial Reports and the Scientific Results volumes of the Proceedings.
School of Rock was an IODP expedition in 2005, focusing on Science teachers and their hands-on experience. There is a nice library of materials pertaining to the expedition.
Geology of National Parks page has cool 3D images from the national parks of the United States. (requires 3D glasses to view 3D images
Southern California Earthquake Center is a NSF and USGS center dedciated to gathering information about earthquakes in Southern California and disseminating information to interested parties.
Hero of Vesuvius is the GSIS Website Award Winner for 2006 and tells the historical story of volcanologist Frank Alvord Perret and his studies of Vesuvius.
World Volcanoes is a website that contains elevation and mapped information about volcanoes located around the world. Users can also submit their own useful information about individual volcanoes.
Biogeosciences.org is a working group probing the emerging field of Biogeosciences, and how life and the Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere interact.
Degree Confluence Project was started back in 1996. The goal is to photograph the places where the longitude and latitude lines cross.
Petroleum Technology Transfer Council is an organization "developed by the U.S. oil and gas exploration and production industry to improve technology transfer to the producer". They maintain resources on several topics including:
The PLATES Project is a program of research into plate tectonic and geologic reconstructions. There are several PowerPoint animations, as well as other resources.
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