Some links for week 1


 

Welcome to the planets - NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Bill Arnett's tour of the nine planets
Views of the Solar System
        Table of Contents
Earth: Introduction
Earth's Interior and Plate Tectonics, by Rosanna Hamilton
Educator's Guide to Convection
Geology and Geologic Time - from the UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
The Rock Cycle
This Dynamic Earth: the Story of Plate Tectonics (from U.S. Geological Survey)
Origins: Timeline of the Universe
Geology of the National Parks
U.S. Geological Survey Home Page
Earthshots: Satellite Images of Environmental Change
Maryland Geological Survey
James Hutton and Uniformitarianism (or Gradualism) vs. Catastrophism
Chicxulub Impact Event
Terrestrial Impact Craters
The Chesapeake Bay Bolide