| Earthquakes | USGS National Earthquake Hazard Program
World map of recent earthquakes
Seismic wave tutorial and animations |
| Geochemistry | EARTHREF home page, geochemical data
Geochem web links |
| Geological groups | National Association of Geoscience Teachers
New York State Museum geological research
New York State Museum
American Geophysical Union
American Geological Institute, education and employment
Geological Society of America
Mineralogical Society of America
United States Geological Survey |
| Maps | Seafloor Topography
Geologic maps of the 50 states
On-line maps (topo, geologic, etc.)
Relief maps of the planets
Google road and satellite overlay maps, and more
Google Earth |
| Mineralogy and petrology | Rock Identification Key: Identify the all the rocks!
Webmineral mineral database
Mindat mineral database |
| Natural disasters | FEMA web site
USGS Geologic Hazards Center
The Natural Hazards Center – Adaptation to Disaster |
| Oceanography | NOAA/National Geophysical Data Center
Ocean currents
Ocean tides
New map of the Gulf of Mexico floor |
| Paleontology and evolution | Teaching Evolution and the Nature of Science (booklet)
Online museum exhibits
Fossils: Window to the Past |
| Plate tectonics | USGS plate tectonics page
Last 540 million years animation (mostly good evidence)
Last 1.3 billion years animation (partly schematic)
Last 4.5 billion years animation (mostly schematic) |
| Folds and faults | Fold and fault animation 1
Fold and fault animation 2
Fold and fault animation 3
Fold and fault animation 4
Fold and fault animation 5 |
| Volcanoes | Alaska volcanoes
MTU Volcanoes Page
Weekly volcano activity report |
| Water flow and floods | USGS United States stream flow data retrieval page |
| Weather | Weather Underground U.S. weather radar maps
SUNY at Albany weather page
Weather Underground
U.S. wind field map
World atmosphere-ocean parameters map
National Hurricane Center |
