This website provides annotated links to internet resources for mineralogists, petrologists, crystallographers, and geologists. These resources cover petrology, thermobarometry, mineral descriptions and classifications, mineral and ore deposits, geochemistry, gemology, and materials science, and include software, literature, databases and glossaries, drawings, labs, organizations, and teaching documents. ... Full description.

Type in the title of this resource into the keyword search box to be directly linked to the teaching notes. These are the teaching notes for a case study in which students are presented with data on a particular lake that they must synthesize in order to determine the cause of an event that occurred in 1986 in Cameroon, Africa. The case centers on Cameroon's Lake Nyos, a volcanic lake which released ... Full description.

These resources were developed during a seagoing pilot teacher workshop sponsored by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP). During the cruise, teachers were mentored and taught by IODP scientists and by shipboard technical staff. Educational materials include a library of classroom activities, data sets, links, downloadable resources, and recommended publications for such topics as plate tectonics, ... Full description.

This resource uses text and animation to depict the various processes that produce caves. For example, microbes feeding on the deadly gas hydrogen sulfide long ago excreted sulfuric acid that helped carve out Lechuguilla, Carlsbad. Geologists and microbiologists working in a still-growing Mexican cave provided the extraordinary evidence needed to convince skeptics. Other ways that caves form include ... Full description.

Since landing on Mars in January 2004, Spirit and Opportunity, the Mars Exploration Rovers, have helped scientists learn an amazing amount about the red planet. The sophisticated rovers far exceeded expectations with the geological clues they have dug up about the planet's past. In this video tour of the rover landing sites, the mission's principal science investigator, Steve Squyres, describes some ... Full description.

Ths portal allows users to view or download spatial data on regional and global geology, geochemistry, geophysics, and mineral resources. The data can be accessed by using interactive map browsers of either the United States or the world, or by linking to an FTP site where the user can download metadata, contact information and data files. Data are available in several formats, including ArcInfo shapefiles ... Full description.

This website contains educational resources for K-12 classrooms provided by the Kentucky Geological Survey (KGS). The purpose of this site is to provide educational Earth Science resources from around the globe using the internet. Earth science links, classroom activities, demonstrations, and a listserv for teachers are provided. Full description.

This website is the home of Caltech's geological and planetary sciences library system. It is a collection of materials in the fields of Earth and planetary geology, geophysics, geochemistry, seismology, earthquakes, and paleontology. Links to sites for each of these subjects are provided, as well as links to agencies, databases, glossaries, other libraries, online journals, organizations, publishers, ... Full description.

This on-line glossary contains hundreds of definitions from basic to very technical terms having to do with geology. Full description.

This site deals primarily with current research on the ocean's role in the global carbon cycle, and specifically with research within the Synthesis & Modeling Project (SMP), which is the last phase of the United States' Joint Global Ocean Flux Survey (US JGOFS). It therefore best serves as a resource to those interested in both current research in the field, and in who is doing that research (contact ... Full description.