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All material for this class is now on Blackboard
http://online.tarleton.edu/Dual/DualLoginPage.htm
Geologic Web Sites of Interest
Space
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
Lots of background data on NASA missions, good pictures
http://planetscapes.com/
Lots of information on the planets and other bodies in the solar
system
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/
Another part of jpl, this one is intended to provide data for
researchers and education
Earth Dynamics
http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/understanding.html
A great site explaining how plate tectonics works.
Mineralogy
http://www.gimizu.de/sgmcol/
Good pictures from the Smithsonian Gem and Mineral collection
http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/mineral/mineral.html
Not many graphics, but good information on minerals
http://www.theimage.com/mineral/minerals1.html
A commercial site, but with excellent information on minerals
http://www.uh.edu/~jbutler/anon/mineral.htm
A list of mineralogy resources from the University of Houston
Rocks
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rmr/
Rob's Granite Page specializes in Texas granite
http://www.rockhounds.com/rockshop/table.html
Bob's Rock Shop: A potpourri of various rock and mineral articles,
pictures, etc.
http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/docs/parks/noca/sb13granite.html
How to make granite- magmatic differentiation
http://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/parks/rxmin/rock.html
A brief review of rocks and minerals, good pictures
Volcanoes
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/
Michigan Technological University Volcano Page: Lots of volcano
information and images about recent and ongoing activity, and
a geographic list of individual volcano pages with eruption reports
(including many GVN Bulletin reports) and other information.
Sections on volcanic hazards mitigation, remote sensing of volcanoes,
a list of on-line journals related to volcanology, and some volcano
humor.
http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/
VolcanoWorld: Educational site for those interested in learning
about volcanoes
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/home.html
U.S. Geological Survey: Cascades Volcano Observatory
This observatory studies the eruptive history and hazards of
the Cascade Range volcanoes.
http://volcanology.geol.ucsb.edu/
Volcano Information Center provide links to websites that are
resources for data not contained in VIC and to inform the user
about general volcanology in an organized way, including features
of volcanoes, volcanic eruptions and volcanic hazards
Earthquakes
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/
USGS Earthquake information
http://www.geo.arizona.edu/saso/Info/index.html
The Southern Arizona Seismic Observatory
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