Dr. Andrew Miller, UMBC Geography Dept.'s Bookmarks

Geography 111 Bookmarks

Courses at other universities

Geology 41 - Physical Geology (Duke University)
Geology100 - Physical Geology (Iowa State University)
Geol100 - Earthquakes and Earth Structure (University of Nevada, Reno)
Geology105 - Oceanography (San Jose State University)
Geology130 - Marine Geology (San Jose State University)
Geology 130 - Plate Tectonics (San Jose State University)
Geology 1010 - Physical Geology Spring, 1996 (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Geology 202 - Sedimentary Petrology (University of British Columbia) [SOME GOOD STUFF HERE]
Geology 210 - Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and other Hazards (Princeton University)

Other Links (introduction)

Welcome to the planets - NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Bill Arnett's tour of the nine planets
Views of the Solar System
Earth's Interior and Plate Tectonics, by Rosanna Hamilton
Educator's Guide to Convection
Sea-floor spreading, plate tectonics and continental drift (from Duke U.)
SCIENCE On-Line - articles about possible evidence of life on Mars
Science On-Line: David S. McKay, et al., Science 273(5277):924 - full text
Rock Cycle (from U. of British Columbia)
Ralph L. Kugler's Home Page - Geological Resources
GRANDCANYON National Park - The Colorado River
W.H. Calvin's The River That Flows Uphill (Day 1)
Grand Canyon River Running

Rocks and minerals

Atoms and elements, isotopes and ions (from U.of Colorado)
Minerals and rocks (also from U. of Colorado)
Minerals, magmas, and volcanic rocks
An insider's look at the silicate minerals
Rocks and Minerals
The mineral gallery
Smithsonian Gem & Mineral Collection
Bob's Rock Shop: Introduction
Bob's Rock Shop: Gallery of Mineral Specimen Images
Igneous, Sedimentary & Metamorphic Rock Info

Igneous rocks

Introduction to igneous rocks
Textures of igneous rocks (from Duke U.)
Granite description
Rob's Granite Page
ENCHANTED ROCK
Basalt
Pete's Basalt Page

Sedimentary rocks

Sediments and sedimentary rocks (from U. of Colorado)
Sedimentary Rocks - Geology 41, Duke University
Sedimentary rocks - from Royal Tyrrell Museum
Geology 318, Sedimentary Rocks & Processes
USGS bedform sedimentology
The meaning of sedimentary rocks
Stratigraphy and Sedimentation - Earthnet Info Server
Sed Geology Web Resources

Metamorphic rocks

Introduction to metamorphic rocks (from U. of British Columbia)
Metamorphism and metamorphic rock (from U.of Colorado)
Metamorphic rocks and processes (from University of Tulsa)
Igneous activity and metamorphic rock part 1 (from Duke U.)
Igneous activity ... part2 (from Duke U.)

Volcanoes and volcanic activity

Eruptions of Mount Spurr Volcano, Alaska, Photographs of the 1992 Eruptions
VOLCANOES: The Inside Story
Home Page of Volcano World
NOAA Image of Ruapehu Ash Plume
Volcano and earthquake pages
Cascades Volcano Observatory Home Page
Volcano information center
The Vatnajokull Eruption of October, 1996
Eruption in Vatnajokull

Geologic time

GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE
Geologic Time (from University of Tulsa)
Radiometric Dating
The Hunterian Museum: Earth Life
The Tree of Life Home Page (more about biodiversity than about fossils...)
Kevin's trilobites
THE QUATERNARY PAGE

University of California Museum of Paleontology

Geology and Geologic Time
UC Museum of Paleontology Public Exhibits
UCMP Web Time Machine
The Precambrian
The Paleozoic Era
The Cambrian Period
Introduction to the Mesozoic Era
Introduction to the Cenozoic
The Pleistocene
The Holocene

Talk.origins: a newsgroup and archive about evolution and earth history

The Talk.Origins Archive
talk.origins Welcome FAQ
The Talk.Origins Archive: Browse the Archive
EVOLUTIONARY/GEOLOGICAL TIMELINE v1.0

Geology 103 - Historical Geology - Brigham Young University

Syllabus - Table of Contents
Lectures 4&5 Earth Chronology
Lecture 6 Stratigraphic Principles
Lecture 7 Fossils
Lecture 13 Organic Evolution
Lecture 15 Precambrian Geology

Deformation of rock and geologic structure

Structural geology on the Web
Geology of the Sideling Hill road cut

EARTHQUAKES AND EARTH STRUCTURE: Geology 100, U of Nevada at Reno

Table of Contents
Plate Tectonics, the Cause of Earthquakes
Seismic Waves
Richter Magnitude
Earthquake Effects in Kobe, Japan
Modified Mercalli Scale - Earthquake Intensity
Earth's Interior

U.S. Geological Survey - Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics

Earthquakes - General Interest Publication
NEIC Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics
This Dynamic Earth--Contents [USGS]
GEOLOGIC HAZARDS TEAM (Earthquake Hazards)
USGS National Earthquake Information Center: Earthquake Information for the World
NEIC: GENERAL SEISMICITY INFORMATION
NEIC: OTHER EARTHQUAKE INFORMATION SOURCES

Other sources on earthquakes and seismology

The University of Nevada Reno, Seismological Laboratory
U. of Nevada at Reno - Earthquake Information
Seismo-surfing the Internet
Caltech Seismo Lab Home Page
Map of earthquakes between 1990-1996
IMSA Geophysics Home Page
On Shaky Ground - Table of Contents
On Shaky Ground - Distance
ABAG Earthquake Maps and Information
Plate Boundary Structure Along the San Andreas Fault (from Penn State)
World-Wide Earthquake Locator

Other sources on plate tectonics


Lecture notes on plate tectonics (Pamela Gore, DeKalb College)
Lecture notes on the ocean floor (Pamela Gore, DeKalb College)
Lecture notes on mountain building (Pamela Gore, DeKalb College)
Introduction to plate tectonics (illustrated notes from Volcano World)