Plummer/Physical Geology -- Instructor's Manual

Chapter Web Sites

Chapter 1 - Introduction to Physical Geology

The following worldwide web sites are useful for locating general information and additional links and internet resources about the field of geology.

http://geosciences.org/
The Geoscience Information Center at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California in San Diego features a searchable index of geological web pages along with geoscience news, directories, bibliographies, .and educational resources.

http://www.uh.edu/~jbutler/anon/anontrips.html
John Butler at the University of Houston maintains a listing of world-wide web virtual field trips to geologically-interesting localities. Travel to classic field localities around the world with the click of a mouse.

http://www.altavista.digital.com/
AltaVista is a sophisticated search engine which allows you to search the Internet for world-wide web sites containing one or more specified keywords or phrases. Be sure to read the help page for useful information about how to format search requests.

http://www.discovery.com/news/earthalert/earthalert.html
Discovery.com's Earth Alert page provides a daily overview of the state of the planet. A world map shows geological, meteorological, environmental, and biological current events. Click on a map symbol to get the full story.

http://www-vl-es.geo.ucalgary.ca/virtlibr.htm
Earth sciences and geophysics virtual library maintained by the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Calgary. This site includes information on geology organizations, current events, resources, software, and references.

http://www.usgs.gov/network/science/earth/earth.html
The U.S. Geological Survey maintains this registry of Earth and Environmental Science Internet resources as a service to the research community.

http://www2.nature.nps.gov/grd/tour/index.htm
The U.S. National Park Service maintains this list of links to information about the geology of all of the national parks.

http://www.pacificnet.net/~gimills/main.html
GeoWeb - Gareth Mills' geoscience-related home page, including an extensive listing of links arranged by topic.

http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/earthsci/es_links.htm
The Illinois State Geological Survey maintains this large listing of links, grouped by geoscience category.

http://www.geology.indiana.edu/urllist.html
An endless list of geology and geophysics links to state government geological surveys, professional organizations, universities and educational institutions, companies, geology software, online maps, books, journals, and publications, earth science resources for K-12 educators and other geology internet resources.

http://www.geology.com/
Pangea International, Inc. maintains this site with a list of geoscience links arranged by topic. Included are comprehensive listings of geoscience organizations, state geological surveys, and major university geoscience departments.

http://craton.geol.BrockU.CA/guest/jurgen/surveys.htm
This List contains an alphabetical listing of links to the homepages of ca. 120 geological surveys and natural resources departments in 28 countries.

http://www.geosociety.org/
The Geological Society of America - web site of North America's largest professional geology society.

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