Re: Rocks & Minerals Research Project

[Anton Ninno <anton@ERICIR.SYR.EDU>]

Nancy and the group...

Recently an AskLN user asked for Internet resources for teaching about
mining operations and oil drilling.  I expanded that into this list of
resources for Earth Science and geology.  Please share!  - Anton

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Internet Resources for Earth Science & Geology from AskLN --

WWW Servers with Educational Materials about
Earth Science and Global Change:
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/pointers/edu.html

On Line Catalog of Geological Data:
http://www.esri.sc.edu/data/lib-main.htm

USGS - The Learning Web:
http://www.usgs.gov/education/

Internet Geophysics URL Archives:
http://cancer.mss.co.jp/Geophysics/

CANADIAN SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS:
http://www.cspg.org/

American Geological Institute:
http://agi.umd.edu/agi/agi.html

GeoByte - Sponsored by the American Assn. of Petroleum Geologists:
http://www.geobyte.com/

Petroleum Related Orgs. & Societies:
http://www.pidwights.com/links/index.html#org/socs

The Geological Society of America:
http://www.geosociety.org/index.htm

Association of American State Geologists (AASG):
http://www.kgs.ukans.edu/AASG/AASG.html

GeoMine:
http://www.info-mine.com/technomine/ege/exploration.html

Careers in GeoScience:
http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/earth/geoscience/careers.html

GeoScience: K-12 Resources:
http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~johnstos/geosci.html

EARTH/GEOSCIENCE INFORMATION:
http://denr1.igis.uiuc.edu:/isgsroot/dinos/earthsci_links.html

Galaxy - GeoSciences:
http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Science/Geosciences.html

Science/Nature for Kifs - from The Mining Co. (this is a pun!):
http://kidscience.miningco.com/

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE:
Librarian's Guide to the Best Information on the Net - Geology
http://www.sau.edu/CWIS/Internet/Wild/Majors/Geology/geoindex.htm

On Line Catalog of Geological Data:
http://www.esri.sc.edu/data/lib-main.htm

WorldWatcher - Supportive Scientific Visualization Environments for Educ.
http://www.covis.nwu.edu/sciviz/sciviz.html

Reclaiming Mined Land feature at:
www.blm.gov/education/mining/mining.html.

Gold Mining:
http://www.blm.gov/education/gold_mining/gold_mining.html

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INTERNET SITES:

* National Geophysical Data Center
A project of the US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic & Atmospheric
Administration, and National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information
Service. Contains resources for glaciology, marine geology and geophysics,
paleoclimatology, solar-terrestrial physics, solid earth geophysics, and
the study of snow and ice and their relation to Earth systems. Also
includes images, reports, publications and general information on a
variety of areas such as bathymetry, ocean drilling/seafloor sediment/rock
sample data, the geomagnetic field, solar and upper atmospheric data,
global climate, heatflow, and more.
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/
gopher://gopher.ngdc.noaa.gov/
ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/

* The U.S. Geological Survey's Learning Web
A portion of the USGS web dedicated to K-12 education, exploration, and
life-long learning.
http://www.usgs.gov/education/

* Geological Time Machine
Intro to Geology
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.html

* The Geologist's Lifetime Field List
This is a list of essential or desirable locations for geologists or
travelers to visit. It contains many of the interesting geological wonders
of the world, with links for most of them. Other interesting natural
phenomena are also presented.
http://www.uc.edu/~ACOMBTY/geologylist.html

* Smithsonian Gem & Mineral Collection
Smithsonian photos by D.A. Penland - About 100 marvelous pictures.
http://galaxy.einet.net/images/gems/gems-icons.html

* University of Wisconsin-Madison's Geology Museum
Includes a mineral and fossil exhibit
http://geology.wisc.edu/~museum/

* Minerals by Name
Click on a name, view a photo.
http://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/by_name.htm

* VolcanoWorld
VolcanoWorld is funded by NASA specifically to provide information about
volcanoes to school kids and to visitors at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
and Mt. St. Helens National Monument. Reports and pictures of the latest
eruptions, photos of many other volcanoes, a developing virtual field trip
to Kilauea volcano, an Ask the Volcanologist section, lesson plans, and
even a volcano mall.
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu

* Seismology and Earthquakes
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/seis1.html

* Recent Earthquake Information
http://www.civeng.carleton.ca/cgi-bin/quakes

* Volcanoes & Earthquakes
Lessons about the Mt. St. Helens Blast Zone Recovery, Today's Earthquake
Activity, and some background material. Plenty of images and teacher
discussion guides.
http://athena.wednet.edu/curric/land/index.html

* 5800 Earthquake Pictures- Earthquake Engineering, UC Berkeley
Choose images related to 85 earthquakes and/or 136 photographers. Browse
the available subject terms and choose images related to the subject
topic. Or choose a subject and earthquake for a combined search.
http://nisee.ce.berkeley.edu/~eqiis/eqiis.html

* Earth Science
http://www.usgs.gov/network/science/earth/earth.html

* The Center for Earth and Planetary Studies
One of the scientific research departments at the National Air and Space
Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. The Center plays an active role in
research related to planetary and terrestrial geology using remote sensing
data from Earth-orbiting satellites and manned and unmanned space
missions. The Center possesses a computer image processing lab which
allows for in-house processing and manipulation of remotely-sensed data.
http://ceps.nasm.edu:2020/homepage.html

* The World-Wide Earthquake Locator - University of Edinburgh
http://www.geovax.ed.ac.uk/quakes/quakes.html

* Become a Rock Detective
The Rock Detective Program is a collection of hand-on activities using
donated rock, fossil and mineral samples, to quickly introduce dozens of
basic earth science concepts.
http://www.rmid.com/rocks/

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