Student Resources

Web sites at UNC Chapel Hill

• Earth Science Resources: links to federal agencies, museums, organizations, and other interesting places which focus on earth sciences.
• Atlas of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks, Minerals, and Textures: developed by Allen Glazner and Kent Ratajeski.

Various Web Resources

• Pangea
• The CalTech Seismology Lab home page has lots of information of recent earthquakes.
• United States Geological Survey
• American Geophysical Union
• Geological Society of America
• Ocean Drilling Program
• Ocean Drilling Program - Leg 198
• Division of Earth and Oceanographic Sciences at Duke University
• Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences at N.C. State University
• Earth Sciences site maintained at the University of Calgary
• NASA
• National Hurricane Center
• North Carolina Geological Survey

Mineral Identification

• MusÈe de minÈralogie: Museum of Mineralogy - Ecole des mines, Paris
• Smithsonian Department of Mineral Sciences
• Cal Poly Soil Science
• INFO-MINE
• USGS Minerals Information
• MineLinks: a mining search engine
• USGS Mineral Resources Program

Rocks

Igneous

• USGS VOLCANICS
• MTU Volcanos Page
• Rob's Granite Page
• University of British Columbia igneous page

Sedimentary

• University of British Columbia sedimentary page
• USGS bedform sedimentology site

Metamorphic

• UNC Department of Geological Sciences: Atlas of Rocks, Minerals and Textures
• University of British Columbia metamorphic rock page
• NOAA VENTS Program

Plate Tectonics

• University of Nevada - Reno
• NASA Natural Disasters Reference Database
• FEMA

Earthquakes

• USGS Earthquake Information
• Center for Earthquake Research and Information
• FEMA
• Southern California Seismic Network
• National Earthquake Information Center

Structural Geology

• The Structural Geology Page
• Microstructures Online
• Structural Geology Courses on the Web
• Waterpocket fold

Geochronology

• UCAL Berkeley's Geology Entrance
• The Paleontological Society
• University of Calgary Timescale Page
• Berkeley's Geologic Time Machine

Geomorphology

• FEMA Map Service Center
• Earthsat's Floodwatch
• USGS Water Resources of the World
• USGS: The National Streamflow Information Program

Search Sources

• GeologyLink
• Galaxy's geosciences site
• Illinois Geological Survey
• A Geologist's Lifetime Field List