Ann Watkins Life Sciences Librarian ann.watkins@rutgers.edu June 8, 2006

Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: Earth Sciences Resources:
Section II - Web and Internet Resources

• Reference
• Planets
• Atmosphere
  • Climate
• Hydrosphere
  • Reference
  • General
    • Hydrologic Cycle
    • Coastal Geology
    • Glaciers and Glaciation
    • Great Lakes
    • Groundwater
    • River Systems
    • Oceans
    • Eolian Systems (Wind Systems)
• Biosphere
  • Animal Life
  • Plant Life
• Geosphere
  • Geosphere- General
  • Geologic Time
  • Stratigraphic
  • Structural Geology
  • Tectonics, Oceans and Continents
  • Geochemical and Geophysical
  • Mass Movement
  • Rocks and Minerals
    • Igneous
    • Sedimentary
    • Metamorphic
  • Weathering
• Applied and Focus Topics
  • Environmental Geology
  • Global Warming
  • Natural Disasters
  • Earthquakes
  • Landslides
  • Volcanoes
  • Tsunamis
• Urban Geology

Reference Resources

• Geologic Glossary (USGS)
• Glossary of Geological Terms
• Geology
• Geologic Time

Planets

• Earth Observatory
• Google Earth
• Exploring the Planets
• Lunar Geology
• Mars Exploration Program
• Meteorites (USGS)
• NASA Solar System Simulator
• Nine Planets
• Planetary Geology
• Scout Report: Solar System
• Solar System Views

Atmosphere

• Acid Deposition (USGS)
• Atmospheric Precipitation
• Earth Observatory: Atmosphere
• The Scout Report : Ocean-atmosphere interaction
• Unidata: atmospheric and earth-related data

Hydrosphere

Biosphere

Geosphere

Applied and Focus Topics

Environmental Geology

• Envirolink
• Environmental Links - BUBL Link
• Contamination and Pollution (USGS)
• Human Impact (USGS)
• Health and Disease (USGS)
• Land Use and Land Cover (USGS)
• Seeing into the Earth: Noninvasive Characterization of the Shallow Subsurface for Environmental and Engineering Applications (National Academies Press. E-book, free .pdf download)
• Water Quality (USGS)

Global Warming

• Climate Change (USGS)
• Global Change (USGS)
• Global Warming - Union of Concerned Scientists

Natural Disasters

• Savage Earth: hell's crust - our ever-changing planet
• Map of World Wide Hazards

Earthquakes

• Earthquakes: The Earth in Our Hands (PDF)
• Earthquakes & seismology
• Earthquake Research (USGS)
• The Great Earthquake 1906 - 100 years after (USGS)
• Plate Tectonics, the Cause of Earthquakes
• Significant Earthquake Database (National Geophysical Data Center)
• Understanding Earthquakes

Landslides

• Partnerships for Reducing Landslide Risk: Assessment of the National Landslide Hazards Mitigation Strategy (e-book, free PDF download)

Volcanoes

• How Volcanoes Work
• Global Volcanism Program
• Instituto Nazionale di geofisica e vulcanologia
• Super-Eruptions: global effects and future threats
• Super-Eruptions: global effects and future threats - a report by Geological Society of London Working Group
• Volcanoes
• Terrestrial Volcanoes
• Volcano Database (National Geophysical Data Center)
• Volcanoes of the World
• Volcano World
• Volcanology Links

Tsunamis

• International Tsunami Information Centre (UNESCO)
• Tsunami Data

Urban Geology

• Urban Geology: Canada
• Welcome to Urban Geology (only works in Internet Explorer and is very slow)