GEOL 3500: GENERAL GEOLOGY INFORMATION ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
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DATABASE & MAJOR SITE
- Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey: Search
- Important and useful database. Search subset of GeoRef for USGS publications.
- U.S.
Geological Survey (USGS)
GENERAL RESOURCES FOR GEOLOGY/EARTH
SCIENCES
- Infosurf: Geology
Internet Resources for Geography
and Geology
- Yahoo!
- Science:Earth Sciences:Geology and Geophysics
CALIFORNIA
- California, Division of Mines and Geology,
Department of Conservation
- California's Geology
- California's Natural
Resources
- Northern California Geologic
Hazards (USGS)
EARTHQUAKES
- National Earthquake Information Center
(USGS)
- Northern California Earthquake Data
Center Home Page
- Seismo Lab Home
Page (Cal Tech)
- Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)
- Surfing The Internet
for Earthquake Data
GEOLOGY TIMELINES
- Geologic Timeline (Northern Michigan University)
Geological Time Machine (University of California)
PLATE TECTONICS
- Active
Tectonics/Table of Contents (Miami University, Oxford, Ohio/Full-Text)
Plate
Tectonics and Sea-Floor Spreading (USGS/Partial Full-Text)
Plate
Tectonics, the Cause of Earthquakes (University of Nevada, Reno/Full-Text)
- This Dynamic Earth:The
Story of Plate Tectonics (USGS/Full-Text)
VOLCANOES
- Alaska Volcano Observatory
Can
Rain Cause Volcanic Eruptions? (USGS OFR 93-445/Full-Text)
Cascades Volcano Observatory
The Center for the Study of
Active Volcanoes
Electronic Volcano
Global Volcanism Program (Smithsonian)
Living With a Restless
Caldera-Long Valley, California (USGS Fact Sheet 108-96/Full-Text)
Michigan Technological University Volcanoes Page
Potential
Hazards from Future Volcanic Eruptions in California (USGS Bulletin 1847/ Partial
Full-Text)
Preparing for the
Next Eruption in the Cascades ( USGS Open-File Report 94-585/Full-Text)
Volcanoes Online
Volcano World
INDIVIDUAL SITES
- 1906 EARTHQUAKE
- 1906 Earthquake (Museum of the
City of San Francisco)
- 1906 San Francisco Earthquake (USGS)
- Mount Saint Helens
- Mount St. Helens,
Washington (U.S.G.S.)
- Questions
on Mt. St. Helens
- Mount Shasta
- Mount Shasta,
California (U.S.G.S.)
- Mount Shasta Collection
(College of the Siskiyous Library)
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
- Geological Society of America
- Seismological Society of America
Created by Laura M. Boyer (Reference
Coordinator, California State University, Stanislaus Library)
November 22, 1996; updated March 8, 1999