Selected Web Links

The following links are recommended for additional information on a variety of geoscience topics. Links are broken down categorically; you can jump to a particular category by clicking on the index links below.

As with any collection of links, the Illinois State Museum cannot vouch for the accuracy of the content they contain, nor can it guarantee how long the sites will be active. If you do come across a broken link, please notify the ISM Geology Online webmaster using the contact page.

Atmospheric, Oceanic, & Planetary Physics
Coal
Earthquakes
Earth Science
Erosion
Geological Organizations
Earth's Interior
Museums
Online Books, Publications
Rocks & Minerals
Teacher Resources
Technology Education Organizations
Topography
Virtual Tours
Volcanoes

Atmospheric, Oceanic, & Planetary Physics

• National Geophysical Data Center
  http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/
• Rosenstiel School Marine and Atmospheric Science
  http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/
• The Aurora Page
  http://www.geo.mtu.edu/weather/aurora/
• University of Oxford--Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics
  http://www-atm.atm.ox.ac.uk/index.html

Coal

• American Coal Foundation
  http://www.ket.org/Trips/Coal/ACF.html
• Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity - Coal Mining in Illinois
  http://www.illinoisbiz.biz/dceo/Bureaus/Coal/
• Kentucky Coal Education
  http://www.coaleducation.org/
• Kentucky Earth Science Network
  http://www.uky.edu/KGS/education/education.html
• Peabody Energy (click the Learning Center tab)
  http://www.peabodyenergy.com/

Earthquakes

• Alan L. Jones' home page
  http://www.geol.binghamton.edu/faculty/jones/
• Tsunami!
  http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/
• USGS Earthquake Hazards Program - Northern California
  http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/

Earth Science

• Center for International Earth Science Information Network
  http://www.ciesin.org/
• Dr. Bob Jorstad's home page
  http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfrbj/
• The Science Spot: Earth Science Links for Kids
  http://sciencespot.net/Pages/kdzethsci.html

Erosion

• EE Link site map
  http://eelink.net/sitemap.html
• Louisiana Coastal Erosion and Beach Erosion Investigation
  http://www.leeric.lsu.edu/educat/lesson1.htm
• Nebraska Earth Science Education Network
  http://nesen.unl.edu/
• PBS Land of Plenty, Land of Want
  http://www.pbs.org/journeytoplanetearth/about/landofplenty.html
• People and Environmental Change on the Northern Great Plains
  http://www.usd.edu/anth/epa/
• Prairie-Plains Lesson 4: Battlefield Earth - Geological Forces in Action
  http://www.usd.edu/anth/epa/lesson4.html

Geological Organizations

• Association of American State Geologists
  http://www.stategeologists.org/
• Illinois State Geological Survey
  http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/
• U.S. Geological Survey
  http://www.usgs.gov/
• U.S., State and Foreign Geological Surveys and Associations
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/surveys.html

Earth's Interior

• The Groundwater Foundation
  http://www.groundwater.org/

Museums

• Illinois State Museum
  http://www.museum.state.il.us/
• National Museum of Natural History
  http://www.mnh.si.edu/
• Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago Academy of Sciences
  http://www.chias.org/
• The Field Museum
  http://www.fmnh.org/
• UC-Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu

Online Books, Publications

• Frank Potter's Science Gems
  http://www.sciencegems.com
• Science Daily Magazine
  http://www.sciencedaily.com
• The Educator's Reference Desk
  http://www.eduref.org/
• USGS Geologic Time
  http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/
• USGS Minerals Resources Program
  http://minerals.usgs.gov/

Rocks & Minerals

• Geological Society of America Bookstore
  http://granite.geosociety.org/bookstore/
• Mineral Information Institute
  http://www.mii.org/
• National Mining Association
  http://www.nma.org/
• Rock Hounds: Discover How Rocks are Formed
  http://www.fi.edu/fellows/payton/rocks/create/

Teacher Resources

• Educational Resources
  http://www.educationalresources.com/
• FEMA Resources for Parents and Teachers
  http://www.fema.gov/kids/femapub.htm
• Museum Products Co.
  http://www.museumproductsco.com
• Qwizdom
  http://www.quizdom.com/
• SBC/PacBell Blue Web'n home page
  http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn
• The Gateway to Educational Materials
  http://www.thegateway.org
• The USGS Learning Web
  http://www.usgs.gov/education/

Technology Education Organizations

• Illinois Computing Educators
  http://www.iceberg.org/
• International Society for Computing in Education
  http://www.iste.org/

Topography

• TopoZone
  http://topozone.com

Virtual Tours

• Dive and Discover: Expeditions to the Sea Floor
  http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/
• The Virtual Sun
  http://www.astro.uva.nl/michielb/sun/kaft.htm
• Virtual Silurian Reef
  http://www.mpm.edu/reef/intro.html
• Virtually Hawaii
  http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/space/hawaii/

Volcanoes

• Michigan Technological University Volcanoes Page
  http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/
• The Volcano Information Center
  http://volcanology.geol.ucsb.edu/