Anyone know any good earthscience sites?

Question

I'm taking earthscience a year early and I'm wondering if anyone knows any good sites.

Answer 1

Geology.com has news and lots of links and other information including a dictionary:
http://geology.com/

Smithsonian global volcanism:
http://www.volcano.si.edu/

NOAA climate timeline:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ctl/clisci100ka.html

Scotese world paleomap project (great maps of plate tectonics):
http://www.scotese.com/

Dr. Blakey's paleogeography page:
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/global_history.html

Extensive information on minerals:
http://www.mindat.org/

Mineral identification online:
http://www.minsocam.org/msa/collectors_corner/id/mineral_id_keyi1.htm#Intro

Geology WWW links page:
http://lpc1.clpccd.cc.ca.us/lpc/hanna/welcome.htm

USGS Geology homepage:
http://geology.usgs.gov/index.shtml

USGS Earthquake Hazards homepage:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/

Wilson cycle page:
http://csmres.jmu.edu/geollab/fichter/Wilson/Wilson.html

NOAA tides and currents page:
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/index.shtml\

NOAA national hurricane center:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

Feel free to come back and ask for more.

Answer 2

My favorite is the USGS real time earthquake site. it maps earthquakes around the world as they occur, with USGS data on each one. (also a teaching library).

Also try Google Earth.

Answer 3

http://www.minerals.net/

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/geo_time_scale.html

http://mineral.galleries.com/default.htm

http://www.webmineral.com/

http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/index_e.php

http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/index.html

http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/

http://www.geologicmappinginc.com/index.html

http://geology.com/

http://www.sgu.se/index_e.htm