Weblinks for Geoscience Information

Careers in Geoscience

Explore a Career in Earth Sciences introduces the enormous variety of careers in Earth Science. Interested students can find a wealth of information navigating around the site to question areas such as Where Can I Learn? What Can I Be? and What Is It Like? The site identifies dozens of Earth Science careers as varied as aerial photograph interpreter, geochronologist, and waste water laboratory technician who work in sectors as varied as energy education, the environment, mineral exploration and mining. Personal profiles of Earth scientists from across Canada give insight into the real work they do.

American Geological Institute's Earth Science World Web site has its video Careers for Geoscientists available online. The 42 minute video includes interviews with a meteorologist, government and minerals industry geologists, an oceanographer, a geochemist, a geomorphologist, and several geoscientists who work in oil and gas exploration and production.

Dinosaurs

Earth Science Explorer

Dinosaur Floor has good information on dinosaurs and extinction theories for student research. (Intermediate and older.) Meet the Dinosaurs is an interactive part of the site that has information on a few dinosuars during Mesozic time, plus links to maps showing where the fossils have been found, and where the continents were located at the time the dinosaurs roamed.

Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

An on-line dinosaur exhibit for those who cannot see enough of these intersting and extinct creatures!

Virtual Dinosaur Dig

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Web site hosts this interactive feature that demonstrates how dinosuar fossils are discovered, uncovered, transported and assembled for display.

Earth and Earth Sciences

Earth Science Explorer

Earth Floorhas information and illustrations that introduce the rock cycle, plate tectonics and geologic time, plus the diversity of life, biomes and Earth's Spheres. Intermediate and older.

Earthquakes

BC Ministry of Energy and Mines General information on how an earthquake is generated, a concise overview of the tectonic setting of SW BC as it relates to EQ activity, and information on measuring EQ magnitude.

Geological Survey of Canada Current information on earthquakes in BC and western Canada.

San Andreas Fault Life, learning, destruction, prediction and engineering considerations along the famous San Andreas Fault, California. Learn about the on-going scientific investigations, personal accounts of earthquake survivors, building design guidelines, the nature of earthquake waves, the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.

Earth Science in the News

Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company provides many valuable links to geology websites.

Extreme Science

As the site title implies, the focus is on the worst and the best, the biggest and the smallest, the highest and the deepest of everything in Earth Science, Space and other science subjects.

Geo-Hazards

US Geological Survey, Western Region Coastal and Marine Geology

Go to Hazards, then explore information on El Nino storms, tsunamis, earthquakes and landslides; animated views of landslides and tsunamis. Ask-A-Geologist: offers a unique opportunity to e-mail a USGS earth scientist your hard-to-find-the answer-to questions.

Geologic History and Paleontology

Univ. of California Museum of Paleontology

Geological Survey of Canada

Online figures and text from the GEOSCAPE Vancouver poster. Important geoscience topics include: Howe Sound geology, Britannia Mines history and current ARD problem, urban bedrock geology, Fraser River flooding, plate tectonic setting, earthquakes and volcanoes, groundwater.

Minerals

How Do Crystals Grow? (Exploring Earth)
Find out how crystals grow, and what determines their size and shape. Real and animated videos demonstrate how this occurs.

Mineralogy (University of Geneva, Dept. of Mineralogy, Switzerland) Technical catalogue of mineral information as well as a Mineral Pictures gallery of may uncommon minerals.

Mineralogy for Kids (Mineralogical Society of America) Great site for student research on minerals: mineral groups, mineral games, minerals in your home, all about crystals, the rock cycle.

Mineralogy Database

Comprehensive, sophisticated, useful mineralogy information.

Puzzles of the Earth

Think Quest

Interactive site (with good graphics) that deals simply with plate tectonics, volcanoes, earthquakes and mountain building. Great for intermediate and older students of these subjects.

Rocks

Essential Guide to Rocks (BBC Education) Britain's Rocky Past: GO TO ANIMATION for a great, minute-long animation of 15 billion years of history from the Big Bang to today! Rock Cycle (UBC)

Rock Identification (BC Ministry of Energy and Mines) Identification of Common Rocks gives an introduction to the three main rock types, how they form, what they are made of and how to interpret and identify them. Also available in PDF version. Rocks in Thin-section (Univ. North Carolina, Geology) Photomicrographs of minerals and igneous and metamorphic rocks as seen under the microscope.

Rockhounding

Canadian Rockhound Geological Magazine (Archive) Interesting articles on minerals, mines, unique fossils and more for secondary students. Younger learners visit Junior Rockhound (Archive) for information on Fossils, Rocks & Minerals, Geology of Our Earth, Mining, and good guides for collecting rocks in the field.

Rockhounding in BC (BC Ministry of Energy and Mines, Geological Survey Branch) View or print this 31 page booklet created for the beginner rockhound.

Soil

Soil on Discovery Channel including interactive Soil Safari.

How Soil Forms (Geography for Kids)

Volcanoes

Volcanoes: Virtual Field Trips (Hawaii & NASA site) Learn about this active Hawaiian hot spot volcano by guided-picture tours and short films of volcanic events, including interesting details about underwater eruptions.

Volcanoes Worldwide (University of North Dakota) Wide range of information on volcanoes (on Earth and other planets.