Geosphere

=Geosphere=

Video of Earth's landmasses through time http://edtech2.boisestate.edu/gillianriley/502/virtualtour/start.html
 * HISTORICAL GEOLOGY**

USGS - Plate Tectonics []

[|U.S. Geological Survey]

__** MINERALS; PROPERTIES, FORMATION AND MINING RESOURCES **__





Bowen's Reaction Series http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/10e.html

Online Geology quizzes with immediate feedback http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072826967/student_view0/chapter11/

Alphabetical mineral resource http://nature.berkeley.edu/classes/eps2//wisc/glossary2.html//

//What is a gem?// //http://nature.berkeley.edu/classes/eps2//wisc/Lect2.html

Where do gems form and where are they found? http://nature.berkeley.edu/classes/eps2//wisc/Lect3.html//

//What is a crystal?// //http://nature.berkeley.edu/classes/eps2//wisc/Lect4.html

How are gems identified? http://nature.berkeley.edu/classes/eps2//wisc/Lect5.html//

//Diamonds and diamond simulants// //http://nature.berkeley.edu/classes/eps2//wisc/Lect6.html

//Color in minerals// //http://nature.berkeley.edu/classes/eps2wisc/Lect7.html//

//Corundum// //http://nature.berkeley.edu/classes/eps2//wisc/Lect8.html

Beryl http://nature.berkeley.edu/classes/eps2//wisc/Lect9.html//

//Topaz// //http://nature.berkeley.edu/classes/eps2//wisc/Lect10.html

Zircon http://nature.berkeley.edu/classes/eps2//wisc/Lect11.html//

//Chrysoberyl, rutile and spinel// //http://nature.berkeley.edu/classes/eps2//wisc/Lect12.html

Quartz http://nature.berkeley.edu/classes/eps2//wisc/Lect13.html

The Mineral Gallery http://www.galleries.com/minerals/

__** PLATE TECTONICS, EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES **__

One of the best links for Plate tectonics on the Web. [|Dynamic Earth]

Another great web site for Plate Tectonics with animations []

Virtual Earthquake http://www.sciencecourseware.org/virtualearthquake/vquakeexecute.html

10 Largest earthquakes since 1900 http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/27/top10.earthquakes.chile/index.html?hpt=C2

[|Earthquake along San Andreas]

[|Make a Quake]



BBC - "Savage Earth" Plate Tectonics http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/earthquakes/index.html

Below is a series of links to a slide show entitled "Transforming California" The slide show is huge so I broke it up into segments. The accompanying notes are below the links to the slide shows.













Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology http://www.iris.edu/hq/publications/posters

Earthquakes Hazards program []

Map of faults beneath Los Angeles []

Southern California Earthquake index []

Satellite Images of Los Angeles [] []

Dead Sea transform fault map http://www.tau.ac.il/~zviba/fig1.jpg http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu/deadsea/project_summary.html

Tacoma Narrows Bridge video []

__** VOLCANOES **__

Global Volcanism Program - list of world volcanoes http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/list_volcanoes.htm

Indonesia Map of volcanoes http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Indonesia/Maps/map_indonesia_volcanoes.html

Global Volcanism Program - Indonesia volcanoes http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/region.cfm?rnum=06

Mt. Merapi eruption - Nov. 1, 2010 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39934297/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

Mt. Etna's eruption []

Geothernal Wikipedia []
 * GEOPHYSICS **

Mountain building and crustal deformation https://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/EarthSC102Notes/102Orogeny.htm

__** NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGY **__

North Carolina Geology and Geologic History http://gis.enr.state.nc.us/sid/zGeologic_maps/Geology.htm

Geology of the Triangle Area http://athena.cornell.edu/educators/asip_durham_backyard.html

__**GEOLOGY IN OTHER LOCATIONS**__ Idaho geology http://geology.isu.edu/Digital_Geology_Idaho/Module12/mod12.htm