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Earthquake and Tsunami in Sumatra
A large and devastating earthquake (magnitude 9.0) occurred at 00:58:50 (UTC) on Sunday, December 26, 2004off the west coast of northern Sumatra.
Links under heading *WAVES
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MARINE BIOLOGY (ECOLOGY) LINKS
COASTS, TYPES OF - LINKS
- Coasts in Crisis, Types of Coasts USGS
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- Types of Coasts - Coastal Geomorphology
- Puget Sound Shorelines: Home
- White Cliffs Country - Photo Gallery
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- Landslides Raise Fears for Britain's Cliffs of Dover
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ESTUARIES
- What's an Estuary: Discovery of Estuarine Environments (DOEE)
- South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve Charleston, Oregon
- What is an Estuary? M.A.R.E. University of South Carolina
- Ch. 2 Estuarine Geomorphology & Physical Oceanography
- Topographic classification of estuaries
- National Estuary Program: About Estuaries
- Information on Estuaries
- Estuaries: Characteristics - ONR
- Columbia River Estuary province geography
- Lewis and Clark - Columbia River Estuary - Sierra Club
- Exploring the Columbia River Estuary
- Image of the Columbia River Estuary
- Oregon Estuary Plan Book: Introduction, Estuaries in Oregon
OCEAN - ATMOSPHERE LINKS
- Illustration of Coriolis Effect - TAMU
- Coriolis Force: an artifact of the earth's rotation
- Atmospheric Circulation
- Additional Meteorology Links on EARTH SCIENCE LINKS PAGE
- Hurricane Awareness Week - May 21-25 - Includes basic hurricane information
- Hurricane Basics
- Hurricanes: online meteorology guide
- Hurricane Fran
- Excellent Photograph of Hurricane Fran, 1996
- Natural Disasters (USGS)(Including HURRICANES)
- Colorado State Press Release (Hurricanes - Forecast 2001 Season)
- NOAA El Niņo Page
- El Niņo: Theme Page (NOAA)
- El Niņo - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Home Page
- NASA - El Niņo Watch from Space
- El Nino Scenario
- DMS Model; Introduction
OCEANIC CIRCULATION LINKS
- THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION - TAMU
- Thermohaline Circulation - CRU
- Thermohaline Circulation - Fact-sheet
- Thermohaline Circulation FSU
- Atlantic Ocean water masses
- Tracers, time scales, and the thermohaline circulation
- Schiller: Thermohaline circulation
- Oceans - Global Ocean Overview
- Oceans - Density-driven Circulation
- Water Masses - Lecture Notes
- Marine Geology G226: Water masses
- Atlantic Water Masses and the Conservation of T and S
- Deep ocean circulation in North Pacific
- Water masses and circulation in the Nordic seas
- Dynamic Oceanic Water-Masses
- Coastal Water Masses: Maine Intermediate Water
- Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) - (GLACIER)
- AVISO/Altimetry - Applications: Mean Dynamic Topography
- Ocean Surface Topography from Space-Gallery
- DYNAMIC OCEAN TOPOGRAPHY - Ocean World
- Ocean Planet:Ocean Currents
- The Great Globe Gallery - 18
- Ocean Currents - NASA
- Whirlpools in Your Bathtub - Ocean Circulation
- A Primer on Ocean Currents
- Ocean Planet: Ocean Currents
- Ocean Currents and Climate - Stott
- Surface and Subsurface Ocean Currents - Fundamentals of Physical Geography
- Gulf Stream Voyage: An Investigation of Ocean Currents
- Gulf Stream Rings (Eddies)
- AGU Web Site: Pacific Toy Spill Fuels Ocean Current Pathways Research
SEA FLOOR SEDIMENT LINKS
- Ocean Sediments-Lecture Notes - Great Site
- Marine Sediments - Good Information
- OCEAN SEDIMENTS - Another Good Site
- OCEAN SEDIMENTS - More Details
- Marine Sediments - A Good Summary
- Seafloor Sampling - BOSCOR -Understanding Science
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Deep-Sea Sample Repository
- Core KN158-4-21MC
- Views through a microscope
- Three Meter-thick Layer of Diatoms
- Sand and Clay Particles - Micrographs
- Electron Micrographs of Clay
- Scanning Electron Micrographs of Clays - Ralph L. Kugler's Geological Resources
- EO: Dust Storm over the Mediterranean Sea
- Ocean Sediments Lots of info. well presented
- ASU - Class Notes For Chapter Five
- Marine Sediments
SEA FLOOR TOPOGRAPHY LINKS
- Hypsographic Curve
- Hypsographic Curve - Text 1
- Hyposgraphic Curve - Text 2
- Hypsographic Curve - Study Guide
- Oceans Basins And Sea Floor
- Oceanography: Oceans including Map of Earth's Topography
- Atlantic Ocean bottom topography
- MARINE PROVINCES
- HYPSOGRAPHIC CURVE
- Side Scan Sonar
- Side Scan Sonar - Klein
- Office of Coast Survey - Side Scan and Multibeam Sonar
- New Jersey Scuba Diver - Dive Sites - Side-Scan Sonar
- Iceberg scours
- Indian Ocean Seismic Profiles
- Lab 4: Ocean Sediments
- Seismic Reflection Profiling Tutorial
- Seismic Profiles - UTIG Cruise Database
- Seismic Profiles - UTIG Cruise Database 2
- Ocean Drilling Program: Leg 189 Preliminary Report
- Ocean Drilling Program: Leg 199 Scientific Prospectus
- Ocean Drilling Program: Leg 207 Preliminary Report
- Ocean Drilling Program: Leg 209 Preliminary Report
- High-resolution seismic-reflection surveys, Cape Cod - USGS
- Mapping the Interior of the Ocean - WHOI
- Seismic Imaging of Ocean Thermohaline Structure
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THE HYPSOGRAPHIC CURVE
SEISMIC PROFILING of SEA FLOOR LINKS
SEA ICE AND ICEBERGS - LINKS
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Icebergs
SEAWATER - TEMPERATURE, SALINITY, ETC. - LINKS
- Water Module
- Water structure, behavior and properties: an explanation
- Looking at a water molecule
- H2O - The Mystery, Art, and Science of Water: The Chemistry of Water: Properties
- H2O - The Mystery, Art, and Science of Water: The Chemistry of Water: Structure
- pH Tutorial - See: The pH Scale
- Lecture 17: SALINITY AND COMPOSITION OF SEA WATER
- Seawater Properties
- Sea Surface Temperatures SSEC
- TEMPERATURE - Gulf of Maine
- SALINITY - Gulf of Maine
- SEAWATER SALINITY - Introductory Oceanography
- SALINITY Summary - San Jose State University
- National Data Buoy Center
- National Data Buoy Center 46029 - COL RIVER BAR
- National Data Buoy Center Science Education Pages
- Everything you ever wanted to know about sea ice, but were afraid to ask.JPL/NASA
- Sea Ice - Includes quiz
- Quiz - Sea Ice - Try this online quiz.
TIDES
- Spring tides, neap tides and chart datum: 6 tides
- WWW Tide and Current Predictor
- WWW Tide/Current Predictor - Saint John, New Brunswick
- NOAA, Tide Predictions at U.S. Reference Stations
- Tide Tables Tide Times
- Virtual Vacationland: Tides
- Tides in Marginal, Semi-Enclosed and Coastal Seas - Part I: Sea Surface Height - Baltic Sea
- Tides in Marginal, Semi-Enclosed and Coastal Seas - Part I: Sea Surface Height - Red Sea
- Tropical Storms & Hurricanes | Marine Science Institute
- Tide Gauge Photo - Egmont Key, FL
- Gage Heights, Corps of Engineers, North Pacific Region Water Management Division
- Gulf Coast Tidal Gages
- Why Two High Tides a Day?
- Tsunami of 6-23-01
- 23 June 2001 Peruvian Tsunami
- February 4, 1965 Western Aleutian Is. Tsunami
WAVES
Wind Waves
- New photos of rapidly approaching Tsunami
- fluids-nuages/myphotos-vagues-mer
- Explore Ocean Waves - explorezone.com
- Ocean of Waves
- WWW-The, Wind, Waves and Wipeout Page
- Water wave simulation
- Water Wave Celerity
- SAVAGE SEAS ANIMATION - The Wave MAchine
- Gordo's winter storms
- MPC and "The Perfect Storm"
Seiches
Tsunami
Earthquake and Tsunami in Sumatra
A large and devastating earthquake (magnitude 9.0) occurred at 00:58:50 (UTC) on Sunday, December 26, 2004off the west coast of northern Sumatra.
- NEIC Current Earthquake Information for this event
- Tectonic Summary for this event
- Largest Earthquakes in the World Since 1900 - USGS
- EO Newsroom: - Earthquake Spawns Tsunamis
- NEIC: Near Real Time Earthquake List
- 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
Earthquake and Tsunami Hazards in the Pacific Northwest
- Earthquake hazards in the Pacific Northwest
- Magnitude 9 Megathrust Earthquake of January 26, 1700
- The Great Cascadia Earthquake of 26 January AD 1700
- Great Cascadia Earthquake Penrose Conference - Summary
- Cascadia Earthquakes and Tsunami Hazard Studies
- Plate Tectonics and the Cascade Range (Map)- CVO (USGS)
Electromagnetic Waves
- Electromagnetic Waves
- Interference between two waves (point source)
- Physics Tutorial System: Sound Waves Module
MISC. OCEANOGRAPHY LINKS
- OCEAN BATHYMETRY (GOOD DIAGRAMS OF OCEAN FEATURES)
- Black Smokers AMNH
- EO Earth Observatory: Features
- EO Study: Amazing Atolls of the Maldives
- EO Newsroom: New Images - Coral Atolls
- EO News: Ocean Whitecaps Influence Global Temperature - May 7, 2001
- Earth Observatory: News
- EO News: Greenhouse Gases Cause Northern Winter Warming - April 23, 2001
- EO Newsroom: New Images - Measuring Solar Insolation
- Climate change led to evolution - BBC News, May 9, 2001
- BBC News - Contains some oceanography related news items
- CO2 SCIENCE Subject Index: North Atlantic Deep Water
- North Atlantic Deep Water Components
- Hawaii OTEC Fact Sheet (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion)
- History of OTEC & How it Works
- NREL: Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Home Page
OCNG 140 LINKS
- OCNG 140 Web Page
- OCNG 140 Syllabus 04W
- Essentials of Oceanography, 7th Ed., Thurman & Trujillo
- Duxbury/Fundamentals of Oceanography, 4th ed
- Student Resources WWW Links for FUNDAMENTALS OF OCEANOGRAPHY, 3rd ed.
- The Edmund Fitzgerald
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Plate Tectonics - Earth Like a Puzzle
- Careers in Oceanography
- Careers in Oceanography - Introduction
- UW School of Oceanography
- Oceanographers and Oceanography ONR
- Careers in Oceanography - Oceanographic Research ONR
- Careers in Oceanography - Employment Opportunities ONR
- Careers in Oceanography - Educational Requirements ONR
EXPLORATION & DISCOVERY
- Explorers_ Page
- Nat'l. Maritime Museum, UK
- Explorers - NMM, UK
- John Harrison and the Longitude Problem
- Paradise Glacier Bay - Antartica
- Crabeater Seal, Paradise Bay - Antartica
- Cutting through pack ice, Antarctica Sound
- Deception Island
- Patagonian Glacier
- Sea Ice - East Siberian Sea
- Glaciers Dobbin Bay in the Canadian Arctic
- NASA's Visible Earth
- Ferdinand Magellan - Mariners' Museum - Newport News, VA
- CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ferdinand Magellan
- Modern History Sourcebook: Magellan's Voyage Round the World, 1519-1522 CE
- European Explorers: Ferdinand Magellan - Gander Academy
- Gander Academy's European Explorers Resources on the World Wide Web
- The first to sail around the world - National Maritime Museum UK
- National Maritime Museum - Greenwich, London
- Ferdinand Magellan
- First Circumnavigation of the Globe by Magellan: 1519-1522
- Ferdinand Magellan - Study World
- Ships on Stamps (Fram)
- Expedition History - The Fram
- Fram 1910-12 - South Pole
- Fridtjof Nansen and the Voyage of the Fram 1893-1896
- Ocean expedition OCEAN98 -Nansen
- Odin - The polar vessel "Fram"
- Fram Museum
- A History of South Pole Exploration
- Antarctic Philately: Antarctic Expedition Maps
- Antarctic Explorers: James Clark Ross
- Antarctic Explorers: Douglas Mawson
- Antarctic Explorers: Ernest Shackleton
- Antarctic Explorers: Roald Amundsen
- Antarctic Explorers: Robert F. Scott
- Exploration: Robert Falcon Scott
- BBC - History - The Race to the South Pole
- Antarctic History and Exploration
- Chronology of North Polar Exploration
- The British Antarctic Survey Home Page
- Endurance - Shackleton's Expedition - South Georgia Island
- The Living Edens -- South Georgia Island - PBS
- South Georgia, South Atlantic Ocean
- H.M.S Challenger - CSMS
- VOYAGE OF THE CHALLENGER
- HMS Challenger
- The H.M.S. Challenger Expedition - Portal
- HMS Challenger (UCSD)
- The Voyage of HMS Challenger (Challenger Oceanic)
- Archives Hub: HMS Challenger Papers, 1872-1876
- NOAA Ocean Explorer: Timeline of the History of Ocean Exploration
- NOAA Ocean Explorer: History of Ocean Exploration
- NOAA Ocean Explorer
- Expedition of the "Challenger" (1875)
- Richard Corfield - Author - Scientist
- Glomar Challenger [This Dynamic Earth, USGS]
- Ocean Drilling Program: Glomar Challenger drillship - ODP-TAMU
- Ocean Drilling Program: JOIDES Resolution drillship - ODP-TAMU
- Ocean Drilling Program
- Future Ocean Drilling IODP
- Ocean Drilling Program: The Drill Ship - JOIDES Resolution
- ScienceNet - Earth Sciences - What was the Glomar Challenger was, and what was its mission?
- Exploration of the oceans (by ships like Glomar Challenger)
- Deep Sea Drilling ShipGlomar Challenger - AZ EDU
- Photo Gallery, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives
- Glomar Challenger jpeg
- DSDP - Drilling - Glomar Challenger jpeg
- Deep Submergence Vehicle ALVIN
- DSV Alvin
- How Deep-DSV Alvin
- History of ALVIN
- USN Ships--TRIESTE (1958-1963)
- Current Vessels: Submersibles - Trieste
- A Brief History
- How Deep-William Beebe
- The Bathysphere Adventures
- Official William Beebe Web Site
- The American Experience | Alone on the Ice | William Beebe
- Bathysphere - National Geographic
- Rodriguez Seamount - MBARI - Mapping Program - Santa Barbara Basin Multibeam Survey
- Geologists and Biologists Endeavor to Understand Seamount Environments Off California
- Arguello and Concepcion Canyon Systems - MBARI - Santa Barbara Basin Multibeam Survey
- Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Two Years before the Mast. Vol. 23. The Harvard Classics
- Chapter V. Cape Horn-A Visit. Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. 1909-14. Two Years before the Mast
- TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST - VT EDU
- Two Years Before The Mast
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Seven Parts
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Imaginary landscapes in 17th-century Flemish and Dutch marine paintings
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