Minerals

• Introductory minerals page.
• Click on the name of a mineral and find out all about it.
• The Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom -- detailed descriptions of some common minerals.
• A comprehensive database of minerals.
• Another comprehensive database of minerals.
• An online tutorial for the study of mineralogy and crytallography.
• An on-line index of minerals in microscopic thin section.
• Links for mineralogists.

Rocks

• Introductory rocks page.
• Lots of detailed information about igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks.
• Everything you ever wanted to know about granite and more.
• A spectacular atlas of igneous and metamorphic textures at the microscopic level.
• USGS bedform sedimentary structures page.

Volcanoes

• Introductory volcano page.
• Lots of information about volcanoes in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific northwest -- including Mt. St. Helens. This is a likely area for the next big volcanic eruption in the contiguous United States, because this lovely part of the country sits right over an active subduction zone.
• Hawaiian volcanoes.
• Worldwide volcanoes -- on Michigan Tech's Volcano Page.
• A volcano hazards page maintained by the USGS.
• The University of Wisconsin's Volcano Watch page.
• Hot spots and mantle plumes.
• A page all about Mt. St. Helens.
• Another Volcano Watch page -- this one is from Hawaii, and is a weekly on-line magazine.
• A photo tour of eruptions of Alaska's Mt. Spurr volcano.
• The Alaska Volcano Observatory.

Earthquakes

• Introductory earthquakes page.
• A daily bulletin listing earthquakes around the world -- it has four listed just for today!
• Southern California Earthquake Center.
• The Institute for Crustal Studies.
• The Worldwide Earthquake Locator from the University of Edinburgh.
• Determining the size of an earthquake.
• What does an earthquake feel like? Measuring magnitude.
• Mojave desert earthquakes.
• Lots of earthquake maps and links.
• The Kobe earthquake.
• The Earth's Interior and Plate Tectonics.

Faults & Folds, Structural Geology

• Introductory faults and folds page.
• Another good introductory site describing faults.
• Structural geology on the web.
• The Geological Society of America's Structural Geology Division home page.

Surface Water & Ground Water

• Introductory surface water and ground water page.

Surface Water:

• The Great Flood of '93.
• Dartmouth's Flood Observatory homepage.
• A nice discussion of dendritic drainage.
• Watch sedimentary bedforms form.

Ground Water:

• Red slimes and black coatings -- bacteria and ground water.
• How do we contaminate groundwater?
• Michigan's Drinking Water web site.
• Groundwater Remediation.
• Groundwater -- Nature's Hidden Treasure.
  
  
• See also the "Water Pollution" section on the Advanced Environmental Geology Links page.

Glaciers

• Introductory glaciers page.
• An extensive database of photographs of all kinds of glacial features.
• A "cool" website devoted to Antartica.
• Ice Ages.
• Many links to sites about glaciers.
• The National Snow and Ice Data Center -- Brrrrr!
• Glacier! -- What's it like to live and work in Antartica?

Deserts

• Introductory deserts page.
• What is a desert?
• Glossary of desert terms.
• Desert Research Institute.

Plate Tectonics & Mountain Building

• Introductory plate tectonics and mountain building page (read the page, then click on the arrow in the lower right corner to go to the next page).
• A discussion of plate tectonics in relation to volcanoes in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest.
• An excellent plate tectonics site maintained, I think, by a grad student at Berkeley.
• The Active Tectonics web page.
• Hot spots and mantle plumes
• Many animations of plate movements.
• The More animations of plate movements.
• The Still more animations of plate movements at Chris Scotese's site, along with beautiful and detailed paleo-plate maps.

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