An oblique aerial view of the the Platte River in Nebraska. This braided stream has undergone a dramatic shift to a meandering channel pattern in many places related to climatic and human activity. The river drains the Eastern flank of the Rockies, eventually joining with the Missouri River near Omaha/Council Bluffs. In addition to being a wicked-cool geomorphic agent, it is also a valuable source of biologic activity and is one of the primary nesting locations for the endangered Whooping Crane.
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Virtual
Earthquake & other online exercises: This site allows you
to examine real seismic data, determine where the
epicenter is located and get a certificate of
completion for finding the epicenter
correctly. Also has exercises on Geologic time, Rivers, and Global warming.
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NASA
Radar Images: This site shows
images of various feature using space imaging
radar. It has some pretty cool images here of
geological nature, and explains what they are, and
how the imaging radar works. Brought to you by the
folks at the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and
NASA.
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World
Wide Museum of Natural History:
A brief but interesting
site with some nice pictures of fossils, planets,
and life from planet Earth.
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Earth
from Space: This
site is graphically intense once you try to look at
any of the images acquired from NASA missions. The
image sources include the shuttle, and various
satellites. Don't try to use this one at home
unless you are willing to wait for a
while.
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Volcanic
observatory at Mt. Saint Helens, Washington,
USA: Usually
really tough to get into, especially if an eruption
has occurred anywhere in the world. Good pictures
of Mt. St. Helens and other Volcanic related
stuff.
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Extra-terrestrial
impact craters:
This site has a
listing of many of the known extra-terrestrial
impact structures which includes chronologic dates,
geographic locations, and in some instances aerial
photography from a wide range of sources. Once you
are at the site, open the folder on the left side
of the homepage table labeled "Terrestrial Impact
Structures". You can then use the map to see where
they are and click on any dot to see info on that
crater. This site is put together by the folks in
the Regional Geophysics section of the Geological
Survey of Canada.
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Indiana
Geology site: This
site contains a number of pages that describe the
bedrock geology, the paleontology, the surficial
geology, and the structural geology of Indiana. It
has some pretty cool interactive maps that click on
when you drag over them. It requires that you have
shockwave flash player installed.
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| Chasing the Storm: This web site has links to pages with a wide range of weather related photos (and earthquakes related photos in the case of tsunami pictures) . |
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Australian
Weather Photography: This is an awesome
site with photographs of a variety of smaller scale
weather phenomena including lightning, clouds,
tornadoes, rainbows, and a host of miscellaneous
photographs.
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A virual
time machine & Paleomap project- In
the video "The Living Machine" covering plate tectonics we meet
Christopher Scotese. He has generated this web page
that shows the position of the continents
throughout Earth's history. Ever
wonder where the continents were during the time of
the dinosaurs? This site has this information and
much more. The site related to the QT movie we saw
in class that showed the plate motions.
This is a really cool
site. Check it out.
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| The Cousteau Society- This website is run by the foundation established by the man who got us thinking about oceans over the last 70 years. An ecellecent starting point dealing with oceans. |
| Earthquakes- The United States Geological Survey webpage on earthquake activity worldwide and specifically in the United States |
| SOHO website- this webpage is devoted to scientific information about our star, the Sun. It has a lot of interesting images and also posts information about things like the Aurora Borealis which is related to solar activity interacting with the magnetosphere of the Earth. |
| Volcanoes: A site designed for people with little knowledge about volcanoes who wish to know more! This webpage has a lot of information about volcanoes in general, plus many links to other great volcano-related websites. Thanks to Mrs. McVey's fall 2011 class for the suggestion! |
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