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.Anthracite Miners - the history of anthracite coal mining in Pennsylvania and the fire which still burns out of control after 35 years
National Center for Atmospheric Research visualization gallery.
Balanced Energy Choices - about making electricity from coal
Conservation Ecology - a computer model for ecological trade-offs
Death Valley Information. - from USGS
Dweir's Meteorite Studies - a huge gallery of meteorite images
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Earthquakes - National Earthquake Information Center. - includes isoseismal maps
Earthquakes O - Lunar Seismology
Exploratorium - an examination of the faultlines in the San Francisco Bay area
Geochemistry
Geoelectricity
A Geologist's Lifetime Field List.
Geology Central - virtual geology field trips from Richard Robinson
Geology of Greece - from Department of Geophysics, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Geomagnetism and Magnetic Declination - from NOAA
Glossary of Important Terms in Geology
Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms - from Iowa State
Isoseismal Map of Kutch (Bhuj) Earthquake of 26 January, 2001.
Isoseismal Maps of Some Large Earthquakes in Australia - from the Dept. of Geology and Geophysics at University of Western Australia
Mars Meteorites - a NASA site with info on the 14 known Martian meteorites
Mineralogy Database
Mississippi River Project - U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
New England Meteorical Services - basic classes of meteorites
Paleomap Project - an animated version of the formation of continents from this site which also sells maps
Computational Paleontology - a reconstruction of a scene from the ancient ocean, from the University of Oslo’s Paleontological Museum
The Palynology Page - "the study of really tiny old stuff"
Oilfield Equipment
Ophiolites - a discussion from North Dakota University
Designing Rod Pumps - for oilfield production
Petroleum Resources on the Web
Physical Science Activity Manual - downloadable
Frank Potter's Science Gems - physical science
Remote sensing - a map of Antartica using high resolution radar.
Remote sensing - AVHRR Image Gallery - images of Earth from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Ocean Remote Sensing Group
Remote sensing - Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center - NASA-funded program provides population data from 30 years of satellite imagery
Remote sensing - Terra - images taken from satellite using ASTER, a Japanese-made multispectral zoom-lens with a 15- to 90- meter resolution which can even distinguish rock types
Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program - a world map which shows the odds of severe ground shaking during earthquakes during the next 50 years
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology Consortium - a consortium of 91 countries which oversees the world seismographic data
Live Internet Seismic Server - keep track of the Earth's seismic activity
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission - images from JPL
Susquehanna River Basin Commission - map gallery
Sutter Buttes in Sutter County in California - tours of extinct volcanic cluster protruding up in the middle of Sacramento Valley
US Geologic Survey
Visual Resources - over 10,000 images depicting earthquakes from everywhere
Vents Program - images of underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Virtual Field Trips - geology field trips from University of Houston, Texas
Alaska Volcano Observatory - information on the Augustine volcano and three other volcanoes in Alaska

Geology, n. The science of the Earth's crust-to which, doubtless, will be added that of it's interior whenever a man shall come up garrulous out of a well. The geological formations of the globe already noted are catalogued thus: The Primary, or lower one, consists of rocks, bones of mired mules, gas-pipes, miners' tools, antique statues minus the nose, Spanish doubloons and ancesters. The Secondary is largely made up of red worms and moles. The Tertiary comprises railway tracks, patent pavements, grass, snakes, mouldy boots, beer bottles, tomato cans, intoxicated citizens, garbage, anarchists, snap-dogs and fools. (from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce)

GLOSSARY TERMS

aa, ablation, abrasion, absolute time, abundant metal, abyssal plain, accretion, acid, accumulation, acid rain, active, actualism, aftershock, agate, albedo, alluvial fan, alpha decay, atomic number, alpha particle, alpine glacier, amygdule, amygdaloidal, andesite, andesite line, angle of incidence, angle of reflection, angle of refraction, angle of repose, angular unconformity, anion, anthracite, anticline, aphanitic, aquifer, aquitard, arch, Archean, arete, arkose, artesian well, assemblage, asthenosphere, astronomic theory of glaciation, asymmetric rock knob or hill, atoll, aureole, authigenesis, axial plane, back-arc basin, backshore, ball lightning, banded iron formation, bankfull stage, barchan, barrier beach, barrier reef, basalt, basaltic, base, base level, basin, batholith, bauxite, bay barrier, beach replenishment, beach, bed load, bedding, bedding plane, bedrock, beheaded stream, berm, backshore, beta decay, binding energy, biogenic sediment, biogenic sedimentary rock, biogenic sediments, bioturbation, bituminous, black smoker, blind valley, body wave, bottomset bed, boudinage, boulder train, Bowen's Reaction Series, braided stream, branch work cave, breakwater, breccia, brittle limit, burial metamorphism, calcarenite, caldera, caliche, calving, cap rock, capillary water, carbonate conservation depth, carbonate rock, cataclastic metamorphism, cave, cavity, cementation, Cenozoic, chalcedony, chalk, chattermark, chemical remanent magnetism, chemical sediment, chemical sedimentary rock, chemical weathering, chert, chute cutoff, cinder cone, conical , cirque, clastic, clay, claypan, cleavage, slaty cleavage, coast, col, column, columnar jointing, compaction, competence,composite volcano, Comprehensive Soil Classification System (CSCS, compression, concretion, conduction, cone of depression, conglomerate, conservation, Constancy of Interfacial Angles, contact metamorphism, continental arc, continental crust, continental deserts, continental divide, continental drift, continental ice glacier, continentality, continental rise, continental shelf, continental slope, convection, convection cell, convergent boundary, coquina, crater, craton, creep, crevasse, cross-bedding, cross-cutting relationships, crust, crystal, crystal settling, crystal structure, crystalline, cumulate, Curie point, current ripple mark, cyclothem, Darcy's law, Death Valley, debris flow, decay rate, decomposition, deflation, dehydration, delta, dendritic drainage, denudation, depositional environment, depositional remanent magnetism, desert pavement, desertification, detrital sedimentary rock, detrital sediments, diagenesis, differential weathering, differentiation, dike, dip, dip pole, dip slip fault, directed pressure, discharge, disconformity, discordant, disintegration (mechanical weathering, dissolution, dissolved load, distributary channels, delta, divergent boundary, dolostone, dome, drag fold, drainage basin, drainage divide, drift, dripstone, drumlin, dry farming, drylands, ductile, dust bowl, dust devil, dust storm, Earth system, earthflow, eccentricity, eccentricity of the Earth's orbit, ecology, elastic, elastic rebound, electron shell, end moraine, epicenter, epoch, equilibrium line, era, eon, erratic, esker, ETP curve, eustatic change in sea level, eutrophication, evaporite, exfoliation, exfoliation dome, exotic river, extrusive, facies, failed rift, fall, fault, fault gouge, feldspar, ferromagnesian, fetch, field capacity, fiery cloud, fjord, firn, fission, fission track dating, fissure eruption, flash flood, flashy stream, flint, flood, flood recurrence interval, floodplain, flow, flow folding, flowstone, fluid inclusion, focus, foliation, fold and thrust mountains, foot wall block, formation water, forebulge, foreset bed, foreshock, foreshore, fossil, fossil fuel, fractional crystallization, Franciscan formation, fragipan, free oscillation, fringing reef, frost action, frost wedging, fusion, fission, gabbro, galena, gardening, geology, geochemistry, geoelectricity, geanticline, geode, geologic column, geologic time scale, geology, geosyncline, geothermal energy, geothermal gradient, geyser, glacial drift, glacial ice, glacial milk, glaciation, glacier, glacier ice, glacierize, glass, glassy, gneiss, gneissosity, Gondwana, Gondwanaland, gouge, fault gouge, graben, graded bedding, gradient, granite, granitic, granitic belt, granitization, gravitational heating, gravitational moisture, graywacke, greenhouse effect, greenstone, greenstone belt, groin, groove, ground moraine, ground water table, ground water, grounding line, guyot, habit, Hadean, half-life, hanging valley, hanging wall block, hardness, hardpan, head, heat flow, heave, hiatus, high level nuclear waste, hinge fault, hoodoo, Hooke's Law, horn, horst, hot spot, humus, hydraulic conductivity, hydraulic gradient, hydraulic head, hydrograph, hydroisostasy, hydrologic system, hydrologic cycle, hydrolysis, ice cap, ice fall, ice field, ice sheet, ice shelf , ice stream, icecap, igneous, igneous rock, inclined bedding, inclined fold, overturned fold, index fossil, index mineral, inertia, inner core, insolation, intensity, interlobate moraine, interstade, intrusion, intrusive, ion, ionic radius, ionic substitution, iron catastrophe, ironpan, island arc, isochemical reaction, isoclinal fold, isograd, isostasy, isotope, isoseismal line, isostasy, jasper, jet flow, jetty, joint, jokulhlaup, juvenile hydrothermal fluid, kame, kame delta, kame terrace, karst, kettle, komatiite, laccolith, lag time, lahar, lake missoula, laminar flow, lateral continuity, lateral moraine, laterite, latitude, Laurasia, lava, lava dome, lava flood, plateau basalt, lava lake, layered complex, lepidolite, levees, limb, limestone, linear dune, lineation, liquefaction, lithic sandstone, lithification, lithophile, lithosphere, lithostatic stress, littoral current, loess, longshore current, longshore drift, Love wave, low level nuclear waste, low velocity zone, luster, mafic, magma, magma ocean, magnetic anomaly, magnetic chron, magnetic declination, magnetic equator, magnetic inclination, magnetic polarity, magnetic polarity time scale, magnetic pole, magnetic stratigraphy, magnetic subchron, magnetic polarity, magnitude, mantle, mantle plume, marble, margin, maritime glacier, mass budget, mass movement, mass wasting, maze cave, meander, medial moraine, melange, mesh, mesosphere, Mesozoic, metal porphyry deposit, metamorphic, metamorphic facies, metamorphic rock, metamorphic zone, metamorphism, metasomatism, meteorite, microplate, migmatite, Milankovitch curve, mineral, mineral deposit, minerology, Modified Mercalli Scale, Mohorovicic discontinuity, Moho, Mohs scale, momentum transfer, monocline, moraine, moulin, moulin kame, mountain glacier, mud cracks, mudflow, mudstone, mylonite, nappe, neck cutoff, neutron, nivation, nodule, nonclastic, nonconformity, normal fault, normal polarity, north magnetic pole, nuclear power, nucleus, nunatak, oblique-slip fault, obliquity of the Earth's ecliptic, obsidian, oceanic crust, oil field practice, oil fields, oil shale, oolite, open pit mining, ophiolite, ore, ore deposit, original horizontality, orogen, orogeny, orographic uplift, oscillation ripple mark, outwash, outwash plain, overbank deposits, overturned fold, oxbow, oxbow lake, oxidation, pahoehoe, paleomagnetism, paleomap, paleontology, paleosol, Paleozoic, Palynology, Pangea, parabolic dune, paraglacial, parent, partial melting, pascal, pedalfer, pedocal, pegmatite, pegmatitic, pelagic ooze, peneplain, perched water table, peridotite, periglacial, period, peripheral, permafrost table, permafrost, petroleum, petroleum resources, phaneritic, Phanerozoic, phenocryst, porphyritic, porphyroblast, phyllite, piedmont glacier, pillow, pipe, pirate stream, placer, plagioclase, plate, plate boundaries, plate tectonics, plate triple junction, playa, pleistocene, plucking, plume, plunging fold, pluton, plutonic, pluvial lake, pluvial period, pocket beach, point bar, polar climate, polar deserts, polar glacier, polish, polymetamorphism, polymorphism, porosity, porphyritic, porphyroblast, potentiometric surface, pothole, Precambrian, precession of the equinox, pressure melting, pressure melting point, Principle of faunal and floral succession, proglacial, prograde, Proterozoic, pyroclastic, quarrying, quartz, quartz arenite, quartzite, radial drainage, radiation, radioactivity, radiocarbon, rain shadow deserts, ramp, rapids, Rayleigh wave, reaction rim, recessional moraine, rectangular drainage, recumbent fold, red chert, red Franciscan formation, refraction, regelation, regional metamorphism, regolith, rejuvenation, relative time, remanent magnetism, remote sensing, reserves, reservoir rock, residual (resistant) mineral, residual soil, reserves, retrograde, reverse fault, reversed polarity, rhyolite, Richter scale, rift (graben), rip current, ripple marks of oscillation, ripple marks, rock, rock avalanche, rockslide, rock cleavage, rock cycle, rock system, rock flour, rock glacier, rock record, rock varnish, rock waste, rockfall, rod pumps, roundness, runoff, S wave (secondary wave , shear wave), salinization, salt-water invasion, saltation, samples, sand dune, sand sea, sandstone, sandstorm, sandur, sanitary land fill, scale of hardness, schist, schistosity, screen sieves, seafloor spreading, sea ice, seamount (guyot), seawall, sedimentary, sedimentary facies, sedimentary rock, seismic gap, seismic sea wave (tsunami), seismic tomography, seismograph, seismology, seismoscope, self-exciting dynamo, shadow zone, shale, shatter cone, shear, shear strength, shear stress, sheeting, shield volcano, shock lamellae, shock metamorphism, shore, shore face, shore platform, shoreline, sial, sima, sialic, silica, Silicon dioxide (SiO2), silica tetrahedron, sill, sinkhole, sinking stream, slate, slaty cleavage, slickenside, slide, slip face, slump, smelting, snow, snow line, snowfields, soil, soil horizon, soil moisture, soil structure, soil texture, sole mark, solifluction, sorting, south magnetic pole, specific gravity, specific retention, sphericity, spit, spoil, spreading axis (spreading center), spreading pole, spring, stack, stade, stalactite, stalagmite, star dune, stick-slip, stock, stope, stoping, storm surge, strain, strain rate, strain seismograph, stratification, stratified drift, stratigraphy, stratosphere, stratovolcano, streak, stream capacity, stream capture, stream order, stream piracy, stream terrace, stress, striations, strike, strike-slip fault (transcurrent fault), strip mining, subduction zone, sublimation, subtropical deserts, superimposed stream, superposition, surf, surface of discontinuity, surface wave, surging glacier, suspended load, suspension, suture, swash and back wash, swells, syncline, taconite, tailings, talus, tar, tar sand, tarn, tell, temperate climate, temperate glacier, tensile fracture, tension, tephra, terminal moraine, terrane (microplate), tertiary, texture, thermal conductivity, thermal gradient, thermal spring, thermoremanent magnetism, threshold of movement, thrust fault, thrust sheet, tidal delta, tidal inlet, tidal power, tidewater glacier, till, tillite, tilt, topset bed, triangulation, transcurrent fault, transform boundary, transform fault, transported soil, transverse dune,travel - time diagram, travertine, trellis drainage, trench, tropical, troposphere, trough, troughs and bars, truncated spur, tufa, tuff, turbidite, turbulent flow, Tyler, U-shaped valley, unconformity, uniformitarianism, unloading, unstratified, USDA Soil Classification System, valley glacier, valley train, varve, velocity, velocity profile, ventifact, vesicle, vesicular, viscosity, volcanic, volcanic ash, volcanic cinder, volcano, volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit, vulnerable mineral, Wadati-Benioff zone, Washington School collection, Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, water gap, water power, water table, waterfall, wave base, wave crest, wave height, wave length, wave trough, weathering, welded tuff, well, Wilson Cycle, wilting point, wind farm, wind gap, wind power, wind shadow, xenolith, X-ray diffraction, yardang, yazoo-type river, yield point, Yucca Mountain Site, zone of ablation, zone of accumulation, zone of aeration, zone of flow, zone of fracture, zone of leaching, zone of saturation .

Geologists Lifetime Checklist

An erupting volcano, An active geyser, Cretaceous/Tertiary (KT) boundary, A river whose discharge is above bankful stage or a catastrophic flash flood, limestone cave, open pit mine, subsurface mine, anorthosite complex, slot canyon, Varves, exfoliation dome, layered igneous intrusion, Coastlines along the leading and trailing edge of a tectonic plate, ginkgo tree, Living and fossilized stromatolites, caldera, fault scarp, sizable breccias, accreting river delta, natural bridge, large sinkhole, glacial outwash plain, sea stack, underground lake or river, the continental divide, fluorescent and phosphorescent minerals, petrified trees, lava tubes, booming sands, The Grand Canyon, Meteor Crater, Barringer Crater, The Great Barrier Reef, The Bay of Fundy, The Waterpocket Fold, The Banded Iron Formation, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Lake Baikal, Ayers Rock, inselberg, Devil's Tower, The Alps, Telescope Peak, Death Valley, Li River, tower karst, The Dalmation Coast of Croatia, Gorge of Bhagirathi, Gangatori Glacier, The Goosenecks of the San Juan River, Shiprock, Land's End, Tierra del Fuego, Mount St. Helens, Giant's Causeway and the Antrim Plateau, The Great Rift Valley, The Matterhorn, The Carolina Bays, The Mima Mounds, Siccar Point, Racetrack Playa , YosemiteValley, Landscape Arch, Burgess shale, Channeled Scablands, Bryce Canyon, Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone, The San Andreas Fault, The dinosaur footprints in La Rioja, Spain, Canary Islands, Pyrennees Mountains, The Lime Caves at Karamea, Druid Arch, black sand beaches in Hawaii, TheTunguska, Cincinnatian trilobites, volcanic ashfall, sandstorm, tornado, meteor storm, lunar eclipse, distant galaxy, hurricane, noctilucent, ancient redwood grove, green flash, supernova, hail .