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Program web page offers information on degrees, courses and faculty at the University at Albany, as well as selected internet resources for Geological Sciences.
A listing of U.S. & Canadian institutions; provides an institution's address, admissions procedures, degree requirements, estimated costs, research facilities & support, faculty, and courses taught .
Links to AGI publications, Web servers, & Web sites of AGI member societies.
Find links to information about AGU's meetings, publications, news items, or access its archives which includes journal table of contents, a complete index to all AGU journals, books, and publications, a meetings database, & a FTP dataset archive.
Access to Web sites maintained by or for scholarly earth science societies around the world.
Access to the most recent volumes (1981-1990) of the Bibliography.
Extensive listing of on-line field trip guides from the United States (including Alaska and Hawaii) and Canada.
Programs which model various geological phenomena, including river flooding, earthquakes, and radiocarbon dating.
Provides a procedure for evaluation & comparison of geological sites; a questionnaires helps determine geological significance, degree of threat, & educational/interpretive value.
Basic overview of remote sensing technology and applications from the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing.
Shows how remote sensing is applied to studying the land, sea, & air making up the Earth's environments.
Online book includes historical perspective, developing the theory, understanding plate motions, mantle thermal plumes, & plate tectonics and people.
Database of online course materials, offering materials in the Earth Sciences.
An introduction to igneous rocks with explanatory text & images of small samples and rock outcrops in their natural settings
6,000 entries cover a broad specturm of subjects, from geology to climate change.
The Encyclopedia of Earth covers a wide range of earth science topics, from the earth, to its natural environments, to water profiles of selected countries. Well-written articles can be browsed alphabetically or by topic.
Translates between 12 European languages: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, & Swedish.
A glossary of geology terms from Houghton Mifflin Company's geology page.
Extensive glossary of terms from the fields of oceanography, paleoceanography, meteorology, climatology, geology, numerical analysis, signal processing and statistics, compiled by Steven K. Baum of Texas Center for Climate Studies, Texas A&M University. See the preface for more information about the contents of the site.
This dictionary offers definitions for all the sciences, including environmental topics. Approximately 7,000 topics are covered.
Broad coverage of the science and technology of energy, in over 250 articles.
Natural Resources Canada provides a searchable glossary with over 1000 terms.
A thousand medium-sized entries cover a wide range of earth science topics. Geology and climatology are covered, as are biographical entries.
Near-real-time bulletin gives information on recent activity by date, time, latitude, longitude, depth, & magnitude .
This site contains the latest quake data and hazards & preparedness information along with earthquake FAQs & resources.
Offers data and maps for global/regional seismic activity.
NEIC provides information on current earthquakes, including maps, data, fast moment solutions, & links to detailed textual and graphical resources.
Frequently-updated and well-organized site on all aspects of earthquake engineering from UC Berkeley.
An interactive computer program designed to introduce the concepts of how an earthquake epicenter is located & how the Richter magnitude of an earthquake is determined.
Access up-to-the-minute information on earthquakes around the world.
Steve Malone provides this extensive list of web pages on earthquake data, broken down by region of the world.
Access the full text of more than 40 geological science books, starting with LC call number QE.
Job advertisements & career information for geoscientists.
Lists international career opportunities especially for geoscientists, hydrologists, marine scientists, archaeologists, ecologists, & soil scientists.
Monthly listings of academic positions for geologists.
Geotechnical job listings are for both academic and industry positions.
Includes student and Post-Doctoral opportunities.
Produced by the USGS, this mercury research tool offers data downloads, data on mercury in fish and mapping resources.
Offers current drought conditions, forecasts and archival data, pertaining to the U.S. Produced by 4 Federal agencies.
Searchable database of minerals, many with photographs of specimens .
A collection of mineral descriptions, images, & specimens; descriptions include searchable mineralogical data.
Site contains mineral data with information on all known mineral species with photos of some; browse the database by crystallography, chemical composition, physical and optical properties, New Dana classification, Strunz classification, & alphabetical listings .
This guide features color images, as well as concise information on the chosen mineral, rock or fossil.
This publication offers information on individual gemstones, as well as a wealth of general information on properties, mining and color.
Searchable database of information on British rock units.
Free database of rock and mineral data from the Colorado School of Mines .
This map shows the Earth's physiographic features, the current movements of its major tectonic plates, & the locations of its volcanoes, earthquakes, and impact craters.
Hosted by Cornell University's Institute for the Study of the Continents, this site includes an interactive, digital map of the world that allows users to retrieve & analyze information from a compilation of geological data about the Earth's surface and interior.
NGDC manages environmental data in the fields of marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, solar-terrestrial physics, solid earth geophysics, and glaciology (snow and ice); in each of these fields NGDC also operates a World Data Center .
Comprehensive crystal structure database covering every structure published in "The American Mineralogist", "The Canadian Mineralogist" and the "European Journal of Mineralogy".
Collection of geological photographs taken by Samuel Calvin (1873-1911), State Geologist of Iowa .
Collection of very high quality aerial photographs, mostly from the western United States, which illustrate geological principles.
A registry of Web resources that list or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations .
Search the University at Albany's online catalog for electronic and print journals in geology.
This map shows the Earth's physiographic features, the current movements of its major tectonic plates, & the locations of its volcanoes, earthquakes, and impact craters.
Quaternary paleomaps from Dr. Jonathan Adams of the University of Adelaide, with detailed descriptions of climatic change over time.
A database that provides bibliographic information on USGS topographic maps; available as a .zip file for Microsoft Access.
Online, interactive mapping for the United States, provided by a group of partners (Federal, State and Local).
Offers detailed maps showing the positions of the continents during different geologic eras.
Holds every topographic USGS 1:100,000, 1:25,000, & 1:24,000 scale map for the entire U.S.; maps are searchable by place names as well as latitude and longitude.
Provides information exclusively on USGS published topographic maps.
All Conferences is a directory by subject that focuses on up-coming conferences, conventions, trade shows, exhibits, workshops, events, and meetings.
Reports on the latest discoveries & news in the geo-community.
An electronic database documenting late Quaternary distributions of mammal species in the U.S.; it allows users to learn about & investigate the evolution of mammalian communities during the last 40,000 years.
English translation of a paper by Hans Kerp from Natur und Museum 126(12): 421-430. Good introduction to Carboniferous paleobotany.
An online exhibit along with links to resources on the Web .
English translations of non-English paleontological literature (mostly vertebrate).
A very entertaining site chronicling some of the less distinguished moments in the history of paleontology. Excellent section on biographical data for early paleontologists.
Take a tour of a nifty museum; it's more than just fossils!
USGS scientists will answer your geological questions .
The University at Albany Geological Sciences Program.
Collection of links to software and datasets for thermodynamic and phase equilibrium calculations for igneous and metamorphic petrology and aqueous geochemistry. Maintained by Dr. Terry Gordon, a petrologist in the Geology and Geophysics Department at the University of Calgary.
A very comprehensive index to earth & environmental sciences resources on the Internet.
Comprehensive resource guide to environmental information available on the Internet; divided into the following categories: air, earth, water, fire, and flora & fauna.
Browse for geology resources by subject or source type, or perform simple or advanced searches.
Search or browse for company, association, education, or government Web sites containing geotechnical, environmental, hydrogeologic, geologic, mining, or petroleum information .
Annotated lists of links to Internet resources in mineralogy and related areas. This is a very useful meta site for all of the geosciences. Maintained by the University of Würzburg.
Links to numerous geology sites on plate tectonics, earthquakes, minearlogy, paleontology, etc.
A central source for information related to the geology & geologic information providers of New York State; it contains links to Internet resources, publication titles, & addresses of businesses, government agencies, & colleges that can be a source for information on the geology and geologic profession in New York.
Annotated and user-rated lists of major internet resources in the fields of astronomy, physics, earth sciences, chemistry, and materials science.
A collection of links to structural geology & tectonics resources available on the Web; includes links to data sets & bibliographies, images, software, commercial products, books & journals, organizations, research groups, meetings, employment sites, and structural geologists.
Provides on overview & samples of research on salt tectonics.
This immensely useful site allows you to search for information on named geographic features, providing data on latitute and longitude, limited population data, and references to USGS maps.
A listing of the Earth's active volcanoes by geographic area along with links to additional information.
VIC provides information on the features of volcanoes, eruptions, & hazards along with links to Web sites that contain volcanology resources .
An exhibit from the Annenberg/CPB Project that provides a wealth of information about volcanoes.
This site brings together both historical and current information on volcanoes, as well as extensive background material.
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History provides extensive resources on volcanoes, including maps, photos, and weekly/monthly activity reports.