Calhoun Community College Libraries

Earth Science

	Dive and Discover - http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/ Research scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute present this chronicle of a current expedition to the mid-ocean ridge, exploring the eastern Pacific off Central America, seeking new volcanic eruptions on the undersea crest where several tectonic plates meet. Includes videos, glossaries, timelines, maps, and charts.
	GeologyLink Glossary - http://college.hmco.com/geology/resources/geologylink/glossary.html A free, reliable glossary of geology terms from Houghton Mifflin.
	Geologic Time - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibit/geology.html Clickable geologic time scale made available by the University of California Museum of Paleontology.
	Geological Survey of Alabama - http://www.gsa.state.al.us/ Provides maps, including interactive ones, online publications, and more.
	Groundwater Atlas of the United States - http://pubs.usgs.gov/ha/ha730/gwa.html Text and images from the book are browsed by region. All 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands are included.
	Inside Geology - http://college.hmco.com/geology/resources/geologylink/toc.html Links to "hundreds of class lectures, web sites, references, news items, organizations, and glossaries on every aspect of geology."
	Interactive Mapping Tools - http://geoinformatics.sdsc.edu/doe/student/web_tools.html# List of mapping tools that allow you to create your own maps from an array of information to be displayed. For example, map all the volcanoes in the United States.
	Life along the Fault Line - http://www.exploratorium.edu/faultline/ Produced by the Exploratorium, San Francisco's "museum of science, art and human perception," this report on "Life and Science in Earthquake Country" tells the story of a region shaped by its recent seismic history. The site features personal recollections, images, and video; and an introduction to topics in earthquake engineering, architecture, prediction, and preparedness.
	Mineralogy Database - http://webmineral.com/ A comprehensive, user-friendly database of over 5000 individual pages on minerals, organized with alphabetical links by names of the minerals.
	National Geophysical Data Center - http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ngdc.html A NOAA web page that provides data, images, reports, and other products. Search the entire collection of pages, or browse by subjects: space weather and solar events; global relief; marine geology and geophysics, natural hazards, geomagnetic data and models, or earth observations from space.
	U.S. Geological Survey - http://www.usgs.gov/ Another data rich site with key resources on the front page for natural hazards (water, earthquakes, data), news, and state research. Use the Science Topics link in the top menu bar to find indepth coverage of full-text reports, images, and data on over 50 topics.
	Visible Earth - http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/ NASA's searchable directory of over a thousand images, visualizations, and animations of the earth.