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Links

Matter and Minerals

http://www.minerals.net/mineral/index.htm Minerals kingdom. Complete information guide to minerals, with a lot of pictures
http://www.rockhounds.com/rockshop/hardness1.html More information about hardness of minerals
http://mineral.galleries.com/default.htm A lot of beautiful pictures of minerals

http://www.johnbetts-fineminerals.com/index.htm A lot of beautiful pictures of minerals

 

Igneous activity

http://seis.natsci.csulb.edu/basicgeo/IGNEOUS/IGNEOUS.html Text and pictures of Igneous rocks
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lessons/Slideshow/Igrocks/Igindex.html More text and pictures of Igneous rocks
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/sorted_by_volcano.html Alphabetical list of Volcanoes in the world with text, maps, and pictures
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/volc/cover2.html U.S.G.S. web page with text, maps and pictures of volcanoes

Sedimentary environments and rocks

http://deepcnet.usi.edu/geology/jdurbin/SedRocks/sedrock1.html Notes and nice pictures of sedimentary rocks and sedimentary environments
http://www.geo.duke.edu/geo41/seds.htm Pictures of sedimentary textures and structures
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lessons/Slideshow/Serocks/Sedindex.html Pictures and brief description of sedimentary rocks

Metamorphic rocks

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lessons/Slideshow/Merocks/Metindex.html Information and pictures about metamorphic rocks and their use

Rivers

http://uregina.ca/~sauchyn/geog323/ Text and pictures of fluvial processes and landforms
http://www.geo.duke.edu/geo41/str.htm Pictures of fluvial landforms

Groundwater and Karst

http://xtreme.gsfc.nasa.gov/DAAC_DOCS/geomorphology/GEO_7/GEO_CHAPTER_7.HTML Text and pictures about Karst
http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/virtcave.html - Virtual cave site; types of caves, cave decorations

 

Eolian processes and landforms

http://xtreme.gsfc.nasa.gov/DAAC_DOCS/geomorphology/GEO_8/GEO_CHAPTER_8.HTML Much more information about Eolian process and landforms with plenty of satelite images

Glacial processes and landforms

http://www.uwsp.edu/acaddept/geog/faculty/lemke/VGD_Alpine/glossary.html Illustrated Glossary of Alpine Glacial Landforms 

http://www.glacier.rice.edu/ Text and photos of glaciers
http://tvl1.geo.uc.edu/ice/Glacier.html A lot of photos of glaciers and glacial processes
http://nsidc.org/NSIDC/CATALOG/ENTRIES/G01130.html World Glaciers Inventory (67,000 glaciers)

Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/ USGS site with plenty of information about earthquakes
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lessons/Rolling_earth/Rolling_earth1.html Text and pictures (I used most of them above) of earthquakes
http://www.crustal.ucsb.edu/ics/understanding/quiz/question1.html Quiz on earthquakes
http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/earth/tectonics/Tectonics4.html NASA observation site
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/anim2.html UC Berkeley site with Continental Drift in motion and a lot of other information on Plate Tectonics
http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html USGS site Plate Tectonics online

Earth History

http://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/ Burgess Shale web page
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/pfoslidx.htm Fossils from Burgess Shale with text and photos
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.html UC Berkeley site with plenty of photos and text about Earth history
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/tertiary/eoc/greenriver.html Green River Formation site with nice photos and information
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/contents.html USGS site with plenty of information about Geologic Time

http://www.palaeo.de/edu/JRP/ - Jurrasic Reef Park

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