This site has been created by a former GOL 105 student who graciously has offered to keep it up for NOVA students to use. It has views of all the rocks and minerals that you have studied in class.

http://web.newsguy.com/dhacat/geo/

Earth Revealed

This site contains all of the Earth Revealed series of videos issued by the Annenberg Foundation. We have these videos as VHS in the Alexandria Library, but you can watch all of them on this site. You must enter your e-mail address and create a password, but otherwise they are free and accessible to the public. Many of the episodes cover topics that we go over in Physical Geology (GOL 105)

http://www.learner.org/resources/series78.html

Plate Tectonics Animation

This is the site with the animations of plate tectonics.

Click on “animations” under Overview and then click on the animation you want to see.

http://wwnorton.com/earth/egeo/index/overview.htm

This Dynamic Planet

This is the link to the site for the map and accompanying booklet for the “This Dynamic Planet” USGS map that we used in lab. This is a global map of tectonic and geologic activity. You can download both the map and the booklet from this site.

http://geology.usgs.gov/pdf/planet.pdf

Plate Reconstructions (Paleomaps)

This site has an extensive selection of paleo-continental reconstructions for various geologic periods. Select “Earth History” and then choose a period of Earth history.

http://www.scotese.com/Default.htm

Evolution

Here are a few sites that discuss some relevant issues pertaining to Darwinian Natural selection. The first is a series of short essays printed in Natural History Magazine in 2002 regarding the concept of intelligent design. The third site is a great site from UC Berkeley and has many links to biographies of many of the people we discussed in class including Alfred Wegener, Charles Lyell, Lamarck, and Thomas Malthus among others.

http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/nhmag.html

http://anthro.palomar.edu/evolve/evolve_2.htm

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/evolution.html

Homo floresiensis (“The Hobbit”)

Here is a link to the paper regarding the recent discovery of a small hominin skeleton on the Indonesian island of Flores. The discovery of this new species dating to 18,000 years ago, may indicate that archaic species of hominins survived until much more recently than we had previously expected, and in fact may have been contemporaries of Homo sapiens (that’s us).

Homo floresiensis

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1027_041027_homo_floresiensis.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3948165.stm

Indian Ocean Tsunami

These sites contain information and videos of the December 26, 2004 tsunami that hit the regions surrounding the Indian Ocean.

http://www.asiantsunamivideos.com/

http://jlgolson.blogspot.com/2004/12/tsunami-video.html

These sites show computer generated simulations of the tsunami showing the variable nature of the wave as it progressed around the Indian Ocean due to the depth of the water near the different coastlines. Sri Lanka received the tsunami as a single but continuous rise in sea-level due to the fact that the island is surrounded by deep water, whereas Banda Aceh received the tsunami as a series of several large cresting waves due to the shallowness of the water at its coastline.

http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~ward/indo.mov

http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/visualization/collections/tsunami.html

Earthquake Locator Maps

These two links will bring you to the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program web page. This site has an interactive global and United States maps showing all earthquake activity that has occurred within the last hour, day and week. You can click on the map to get a close-up view of any region and you can click on any earthquake to get information about a specific quake.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/ (global map)

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/ (United States map)

Geologic Time Scale (Geological Society of America)

The first two links will bring you to the Geological Society of Americas Geologic Time Scale. This represents the most up-to-date version of the time scale and is subject to constant revisions based on new information and research. The first site is the GSA’s direct web site (click on the time scale to get a high resolution PDF to print out), the second site is simply the PDF of the time scale. Note that the Hadean is not included in this representation of the time scale. This is because the Hadean is an informal classification for the eon preceding the Archean. The Phanerozoic is the Eon which includes the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic. The third link will bring you to the United States Geologic Surveys (USGS) page dealing with geologic time.

http://www.geosociety.org/science/timescale/timescl.htm

1999 Geologic Time Scale (GSA)

http://geology.er.usgs.gov/paleo/geotime.shtml

The Universe and Solar System

This site has information on all the bodies in our solar system and excellent detailed descriptions of each of the planets and their moons.

http://www.nineplanets.org/

Everything you wanted to know about the Universe but were afraid to ask….including dark matter.

http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmology_faq.html#BBB

The Gaia Hypothesis

These sites provide some good detailed discussions of the Gaia Hypothesis.

http://www.gaianet.fsbusiness.co.uk/gaiatheory.html

Fossil Images

This site has been created by a former NVCC GOL 106 student. The pictures of the fossils on this site are of the specimens that you have studied in the lab.

http://web.newsguy.com/dhacat/geo/

These sites can be used to access images of the fossils we looked at in the lab. Caution: Some of the images are of a single specimen and may not be representative of the group in general.

http://www.paleoportal.org/fossil_gallery/fossil_gallery.php (UC Berkeley)

This is a GREAT site for fossil identification: (I’ve been having some problems linking to this site lately)

Invertebrate Macrofossils Laboratory

Georgia Perimeter College

Pamela Gore

http://www.gpc.edu/~pgore/geology/historical_lab/invertebratemacro.php

This is the paleontology tutorial site for Cortland State University. A good site for descriptions and some photos.

http://paleo.cortland.edu/tutorial/

This is a link to the Invertebrate Paleontology Image Gallery at the Peabody Museum at Yale University. Click on the “Taxa” at the upper left corner of the page to access fossil images. Quite thorough and exhaustive.

Peabody Museum, Yale University

http://www.yale.edu/ypmip/

This site from the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History and Biodiversity Research Center contains image data bases for invertebrate macrofossils, trace fossils, and invertebrate microfossils. Click on the invertebrate microfossil link, and then choose the phylum, class or order of the specimen you would like to vies and then click “Start Search” or “Display All Records”….I know, it’s misspelled. Some images are better than others. You can find images of foraminifera in the invertebrate microfossil image data base under the order foraminifera.

Museum of Natural History and Biodiversity Research Center

University of Kansas

http://ipa.geo.ukans.edu/InvertPaleo/