GEOLOGY WEB LINKS

• Largest Earthquakes in the United States: Hebgen Lake, MT
• Hebgen Earthquake - AZ edu
• Virtual Reality Panorama of the Tetons from the Gros Ventre Mountains

• Streams - UNL Good Info. and figures here.
  
• Streams - browse Lots of images
  
• Fluvial Landforms - GEOG Good info. & figures.
• LCC River Pictures Web Page
• Stream Gradient Tutorial
• CONTINENTAL DIVIDE Barnes County, N.D.
• Glacial Outwash in Barnes County, N.D.
• USGS CMG InfoBank: Point Bars and Cut Banks
• River Systems of the World

• Braided Streams
• Braided Stream - Photo
• Gravelly Braided Stream - N. Fork Toutle River, Washington QT 6.7 MB
• XES Braided Stream QT 6.7 MB
• Braided Stream - Exploratorium
• Glacial Deposition: Braided Streams
• Braided Rivers
• Braided Stream - Danali National Park, AK
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• Devonian Times - Aquatic Habitats - Braided Streams - Meandering Streams

• Oxbow Lake
• Meander
• Meander Cut-Off: Oxbow Lake
• Begin the Satellite Tour of Louisiana
• False River Oxbow Lake, Louisiana
• SHAPES OF THE LAND - Meanders - Canadian Geographic Online

• USGS Real-Time Water Data
• The "1OO-Year Flood" USGS Fact Sheet 229-96
• Flooding - Mississippi Valley
• Dongting Lake Flooding in China
• 1987 Flood, Augusta, Maine - photo
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• LCC VOLCANOES and IGNEOUS PROCESSES LINKS
• Mount St. Helens Notice of Volcanic Unrest - Current Updates
• Mount St. Helens Seismicity Information
• Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam USFS
• USGS Volcano-Warning Schemes in the United States

• Weathering Slides - Part 1
• Weathering Slides - Part 2
• Weathering - Pamela Gore
• Weathering & Erosion
• Weathering - Introduction to Geomorphology
• WEATHERING - Geography 221
• Exfoliation image - Yosemite, California
• Landforms - Weathering
• Landforms - Rocks & Weathering
• Exfoliation in Granite #2
• Sedimentary Rocks - Pamela Gore
• Textures and Structures of Sedimentary Rocks - Slides
• Geology of the Grand Canyon

• Mantle Convection: Earth's Interior
• Earth's Interior - J. Louie
• GEOLOGY 202 EARTH'S INTERIOR
• Interior of the Earth - Pamela J. W. Gore
• Lecture #7: Earth's Interior
• Earth's Interior and Plate Tectonics - Earth Science Australia
• Structure of the Earth and the Origin of Magmas
• Isostasy - Montana State U.

• Magnitude 7.9 Earthquake, Alaska
• UAF Seismology Laboratory Home Page
• 7.6 Earthquake Bulletin: IRIAN JAYA REGION, INDONESIA 10/10/02
• IRIS: Special Event File - Turkey Earthquake
• Quake: Special Features (USGS)
• Quake: 1999 Izmit, Turkey Earthquake
• Earthquake in Turkey, USGS site
• M5.1 in Southern California October 30, 2001
• Parkfield, California, Earthquake Experiment
• India quake kills 1,000 BBC News 1-26-01
• As India's Plates Collide...
• Death Toll Climbs After Major India Quake - Red Cross
• Indian Earthquake, Jan. 26, 2001, Cal Tech Seismogram of the Day
• Hector Mine California Earthquake, 10/16/1999, USGS
• Mexican Current Earthquake Information, USGS

• MOST RECENT NOTABLE EARTHQUAKE Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network
• WWU Seismic Station On-line (SEISMOGRAPH)
• PNSN Webicorder Displays - On-line seismograms
• Near Lake Chelan, Washington 1872
• Mount St. Helens Seismicity
• Tectonic Stress in the Pacific Northwest - USGS
• FEBRUARY 28, 2001 NISQUALLY EARTHQUAKE
• Comparison of Nisqually and Northridge Earthquakes
• Geotechnical Aspects of the February 28, 2001, Nisqually Earthquake
• Olympia Earthquake (Photos)
• February 28, 2001 Nisqually Earthquake Photos - Shannon & Wilson, Inc.
• Did You Feel It? (Intensity Map & Survey)
• Earthquake Information for WASHINGTON (Washington Seismicity)
• Deep Quakes In Cascadia
• Earthquake Hazards in Washington and Oregon - UW (excellent information)
• Cascadia Earthquake & Tsunami of 1700
• M=9 Megathrust Earthquake of January 26, 1700
• PNW Earthquake of January 26, 1700
• Paleoseismology - USGS Earthquake Hazards Program
• Alsea Bay, Oregon paleoseismology
• Great Cascadia Earthquake Penrose Conference
• Earthquake hazards in the Pacific Northwest - DOGAMI
• Plate Tectonic Setting of Pacific Northwest
• Plate Boundaries of Western North America
• CURRENT SEISMICITY at MOUNT ST. HELENS

• American Red Cross- Earthquake Preparedness
• EQE Earthquake Home Preparedness Guide
• żEsta Preparado para un Terremoto?

PLATE TECTONICS

Overview

• This Dynamic Earth: Story of Plate Tectonics (USGS)
• Plate Tectonics(from Volcano World) - follow "Next Section" Arrow
  • Layers of the Earth / Earth's Interior (from Volcano World)
  • Continental Drift - Glaciation (from Volcano World)
  • Sea-Floor Spreading (from Volcano World)
  • Location of Plate Boundaries (from Volcano World)
  • Types of Plate Motion (from Volcano World)
• Geology : Plate Tectonics UCMP
• Plate Tectonics, the Cause of Earthquakes
• Unit 4 The Living Machine - Continental Tectonics & Earth's Interior
• Continental Rifting - Unit 4 The Living Machine

Maps and Other Diagrams

• PLATE BOUNDARIES MAP
• Crustal Plate Boundaries MAP**
• The PLATES Project
• Pacific/Antarctic Ridge Movie
• Tectonic Plate Motion

Seafloor Spreading

• Seafloor Spreading Demo Very Good
• Hawaiian Hot Spot Demo Very Good

Hot Spots and Mantle Plumes

• All the Hot Spots of the World
• Hotspot locations
• FLOOD BASALTS, MANTLE PLUMES & MASS EXTINCTIONS

Convergent Boundaries

• Exotic Terranes (Antarctica)
• Olytorsky Collision Zone - Kamchatka
• North Cascades National Park Geology - A Mountain Mosaic
• North Cascades Geology: Major Terranes
• Cascadia Subduction Zone Slide Show

Divergent Boundaries

• Afar Triple Junction
• GeoSystems Today Virtual Tour - Afro-Arabian Rift System

  Hydrothermal Vents

  • Microbes from Deep Sea Thermal Vents
  • Life Without Light
  • Magnetic Microbes

Transform Boundaries

• Pt. Reyes Geology (San Andreas Fault north of San Francisco, CA)
• The San Andreas Fault
• The San Andreas Fault [USGS]
• Comparison of North Anatolian Fault and San Andreas Fault

The Driving Mechanism

• New Ideas about Earth's Mantle

Seafloor Features

• NOAA Ocean Explorer: Exploring Alaska's Seamounts
• The Underwater World - USN
• Seamounts in the Gulf of Alaska
• Juan de Fuca Ridge Cruise, July 2000 - MBARI
• Metcalf Institute Environment Writer Backgrounder on marine biodiversity and seamounts
• EXPLORING THE MOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP
• Ocean Bottom Topography (a.k.a. Bathymetry) Virtual Vacationland
• 10(p) Physiography of the Ocean Basins
• Analysis of sonar data
• Visualizing the Seafloor
• Bathy "Evolution" example: South America

  Images (tectonics)

  • NGDC/WDC MGG, Boulder-Measured and Estimated Global Seafloor Topography Images
  • Satellite Geodesy, IGPP, SIO, UCSD | Global Topography | Measured and estimated seafloor topography
  • NGDC/WDC MGG, Boulder - 2 minute bathymetry/topography image selector
  • Interactive Sea Floor Topography
  • Index of /mgg/image/images/predict/globes
  • NGDC/WDC MGG, Boulder-Measured and Estimated Global Seafloor Topography Info Page
  • Broad Areas of Interest and Geomorphic Units, Australia
  • Visible Earth - Bathymetry of the Los Angeles Margin
  • CLASSROOM@SEA PROJECT Underwater landscapes
  • Views of Cabo Verde
  • Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic)

Outdated Links

• PLATE MOTIONS
• Relative Plate Motion Calculator
• Encyclopedia: Geography of the United States Pacific Mountain System**

Misc.

• FAULTS
• Upper Klamath Basin Ground-Water Study - Background
• Klamath Basin Setting
• Klamath Basin Faults And Earthquakes
• Faults, A Model of Three Faults (grades 7-12) USGS
• Faults and Fault Zones
• Major Faults of the Puget Sound Region of WA
• Folds, California
• Death Valley Geological Landscapes UO

• Tsunami!: The WWW Tsunami Information Resource
• Tsunami Information Links - USGS
• DigitalGlobe | QuickBird Images of Tsunami Sites Highly recommended
• DigitalGlobe: Sri Lanka - Beach near Kalutara
• DigitalGlobe Sample Imagery
• Indian Ocean Tsunami Imagery - Sri Lanka - GlobalSecurity

• LCC VOLCANOES and IGNEOUS PROCESSES LINKS
• Mount St. Helens Notice of Volcanic Unrest - Current Updates
• Mount St. Helens Seismicity Information
• Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam USFS
• USGS Volcano-Warning Schemes in the United States

GEOL 116 GEOLOGY OF EARTH'S INTERIOR - Fall 2002 Web Page
• Website to Accompany Hamblin/Christiansen, Earth's Dynamic Systems, 9th Edition
• LCC ERSI 104 Web Page
• Bowen's Reaction Series
• Igneous Rock Evolution
• GRANITE
• What do the terms mafic and felsic mean?
• Mount St. Helens Seismicity
• Marine Sediments - U of Florida
• (Marine) Sediments - U of Florida
• Ocean 540: Overview--Marine Sedimentation
• COAST Visualization Models
• Seamounts and Guyots - Hawaiian Islands
• Trenches & Island Chains
• Seamounts and Guyots
  

GEOL 117 GEOLOGY OF EARTH'S SURFACE - Winter Web Page
• WORLD WIDE WEB ACTIVITIES for THE CHANGING EARTH
• WORLD WIDE WEB ACTIVITIES for THE CHANGING EARTH - Netscape
• Website to Accompany Hamblin/Christiansen, Earth's Dynamic Systems, 9th Edition
• Growth & Collapse of Lava Deltas
• Pt. Fermin Landslide
• Types of DESERTS (USGS)
• Regolith on Eros (NEAR)
• Regolith, Regolith (Eros - NEAR)

GEOL 118, HISTORICAL GEOLOGY - SPRING Web Page


Historical Geology Web Links Page