Links for Mineralogists: Table of Contents
KNOWLEDGE 2: Links for Mineralogists
TOOLS 1: Links for Mineralogists
TOOLS 2: Links for Mineralogists
TOOLS 3: Links for Mineralogists
CONTACT 1: Links for Mineralogists
CONTACT 2: Links for Mineralogists
CONTACT 3: Links for Mineralogists

KNOWLEDGE 1: Links for Mineralogists

Mineral descriptions

Amethyst Galleries, Inc.: The Mineral Gallery. Minerals are catalogued by name, class, interesting groupings (i.g. gemstones) and a full text search by keyword searching.

ATHENA, Switzerland: A search program for mineral names (including varieties) and mineral formula for elements or element groups. Also available are alphabetical and systematical lists, according to Strunz classification.

Jillian F. Banfield, Dep. of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, PRINCIPLES OF MINERALOGY: Alphabetical Mineral Reference. A long list (wait and see), gives also access to an alternative gem database.

David A. Barthelmy: Mineralogy Database. Data about Dana classification of mineral species, determinative mineralogy (minerals by physical and optical properties), and alphabetical listing of mineral species including name origins.

Hershel Friedman, The Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom: Minerals A-Z. The online mineral resource guide on hundreds of minerals, most with pictures, sorted in different categories (still under construction).

Jeremy Mates, University of Washington: Jeremy´s Mineral Quizzer. This is an electronic way of testing and improving your working knowledge of mineral names and their formulas.

Musée de mineralogie, Ecole des mines, Paris: Catalog of type specimen. The catalog is searchable by authors, minerals, date of first publication, holotyps and by atoms in chemical formula.

Anurag Sharma, Department of Earth Sciences, State University of New York at Oswego: AMPHIBOLES " The Garbage Can of Mineralogy"

Dept. of Chemistry, University of Sheffield: Geological data for the first 112 elements, including information about availability, world production, main mining areas and reserves.

Joe Smyth, University of Colorado: Mineral Structures and Properties Data Base. A compilation of crystallographic and physical property data for most of the rock-forming minerals (still under construction).

Dave Waters, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford: Common Mineral Groups. In this site the crystal chemistry of some common mineral groups is briefly examined. The aim here is to illustrate the range of crystal chemical features, and tricks of formula recalculation, that one may need to consider, e.g. garnet, plagioclase, pyroxene, mica (muscovite and biotite), and amphibole (mainly about hornblende).

Minerals in thin sections

Dept. of Geology, Duke University, Durham: Textures of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks. If you wish to see an enlarged version, click on the text description.

Charlotte Gladstone, Department of Geology at the University of Bristol: Minerals under the Microscope. With explanations of colour and pleochroism, interference colours, extinction angle, relief, opacity, etc.

Robin Gill, Department of Geology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Undergraduate course GL203/4: GL 203/4 Igneous images. The petrographic slide images are arranged in three blocks: Textures and magma processes, rock types, and minerals and magma composition.

Physical Sciences Learning Center, University of California, Los Angeles, Petrographic Workshop: Browse minerals provides a comprehensive mineral description, rich illustrated by thin section micro photographs.

R. Marschallinger, University of Salzburg: 3-D Reconstruction and Volume Modelling of Geological Micro- and Macrostructures. Some video seqences of 3-D volume models of macro and microstructures in geological materials, e.g. cryptic granite fabric, doleritic basalt fabric, garnet hornblende- and garnet mica schist fabric, garnetiferous greenschist fabric and chemistry.

Dept. of Earth Science, Inst. of Educational Technology, Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes: The Virtual Microscope. Online Demo-Example of a CD-ROM at 544 Mb(!). A rock sample supposed to be rotated from 0 degrees to 50 degrees only, in 10 degree steps. Also explore a review by Doug Robinson.

Department of Geology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah: Petroglyph. The downloadable demonstration version of Petroglyph contains a thin section of an amphibolite. Petroglyph is authorware, eventually it will contain thirty thin sections of various rock types.

Geology 202, University of British Columbia, Vancouver: Minerals in thin sections, Web site offering information about mineral light behaviour, colour, relief, clevage, crystal form, extinction and other properties.

Helpful Databases

Table of contents
Meta Indexes of Scientific Databases
Helpful mineralogical tables
Definitions Database
Glossaries
Ask-An-Earth-Scientist
National Geophysical Data Center and NASA
Miscellaneous

Meta Indexes of Scientific Databases

Library of the University of Chicago: Science Reference Resources & Databases
GEOMINE (hosted by: INFO-MINE), Exploration Geoscience: Databases and Datasets. Databases and other datasets of interest to the geologist/explorationist are presented here.
University Library of the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology: Science Databases Available Most of them with costs.
John Harrop & Peter MacMartin, The Geo Exchange: Databases and Datasets. Databases and other datasets of interest to the geologist/explorationist are presented here, e.g. for geochemistry, geophysics, mineralogy, volcanology.
Information Systems, Oldenburg, Germany: Online information sources for scientists
KORDIC, Korea R & D Information Center, Taejon, Korea: Directory of Factual Databases
Carrier Library, James Madison University, Virginia, USA: Science Databases (chiefly downloadable indexes), and Periodical Indexes.
Martindale´s "The Reference Desk": Science Tables & Databases
Mark MacLennan, University of Iowa Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research: GeoData Information Sources
Mark O. Hatfield Library, Willamette University, Salem, OR: Earth Science Databases and Archives
Science & Engineering Library, University of California, San Diego: Searching for Databases in Science and Engineering. Well organized site!
Robert A. Schowengerdt, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson: Content-Based Query and Browse of Earth Science Imagery Databases using High Performance Computers and Networks
University of Stirling: Water Resources, Climate & Earth Science

Helpful mineralogical tables

Nat Alcock, Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick: Atomic Radii Tables. Data from N W Alcock, Bonding and Structure (Ellis Horwood, 1990).

Jillian F. Banfield, Dep. of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, PRINCIPLES OF MINERALOGY: Helpful Mineralogic Tables. Among others the chemical formulae for minerals and gems, pleochroism listings, refractive indicies and specific gravities. Crystal structure movies are provided for downloading.

Centre for the Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Earth´s Interior (CETSEI), Bristol University: Phase Diagrams for Geologists. This server knows how to deal with different types of phase diagrams, including the ternary isothermal section.

Richard B. Firestone, Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: WWW Table of Isotopes. The 8th edition contains nuclear structure and radioactive decay data for over 3100 isotopes and isomers. The data in the Table of Isotopes are based on the Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File ENSDF maintained by the National Nuclear Data Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Department of Mineralogy, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm: FYND. FYND is a searcheable computer database of minerals found in Sweden, and their localities. It is a compilation of about twenty thousand observations, based on published data in the literature and the collections of the Swedish Museum of Natural History.

Mark S. Ghiorso (Univ. of Washington, Seattle) and Richard O. Sack (Purdue Univ., West Lafayette): The MELTS Supplemental Calculator. To compute thermodynamic properties and/or component transformations of mineral solid solutions.

Geochemical Institute Göttingen: Useful binaries. Simple calculation programs, e.g. petmixxl.zip, petmixex.zip, xchange.zip, cipwcalc.zip, molm.zip, afc.traces.zip, afc.isotopes.zip, and databases like isofrac.zip, a compilation of oxygen and hydrogen isotope fractionation factors, or a global database of available oxygen (n=2855!) and corresponding radiogenic isotope data found in the literature.

U.S. Geological Survey: Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS): Data Base. MRDS is an international data base of mineral sites records with related geologic, commodity, and deposit information which currently contains over 111,816 records.

Definitions Database

Metal Powders & Compounds, ATLANTIC EQUIPMENT ENGINEERS (AEE), Bergenfield: High Purity Metal Powders and Compounds - Includes CAS, density, crystal structure, % purity, particle size and price for each product plus technical data on all elements. Download AEE´s High Purity Metals Reference Handbook...

CambridgeSoft Corporation (formerly Cambridge Scientific Computing): ChemFinder A WWW-based chemical search engine. Fill in any of the fields that you want to search over, ChemFinder will locate any compounds that match all of the criteria you specified. Excellent!

Burkhard Kirste, Department of Chemistry, FU Berlin: Conversion of Units (Including currency conversion and conversion of temperatures). Also explore: General chemistry. Physical quantities, constants, units.

Felix Mutschler, Eastern Washington State University. In: U.S. National Geophysical Data Center & World Data Center A for MGG, PETROS Igneous Petrology Databank version 6.1.
PETROS is a worldwide data bank of major element chemical analyses of igneous rocks. PETROS 6.1 includes 37,300 major element chemical analyses divided into 307 major groups representing geographic areas or petrologic provinces. Also included are 468 average igneous rock compositions calculated by various authors, a bibliography of information sources, and complete format/operating instructions for PETROS. Data are available for free download from NGDC´s WWW server.

I. Thum: A Web Browser Flow Chart for the Classification of Igneous Rocks. Taken from the IUGS Subcommission on the Systematics of Igneous Rocks (Woolley et al., 1996).

Geological Sciences Dept., University of British Columbia, Vancouver: Definitions Search. A searchable index in petrology and mineralogy.

Research it! A versatile search engine site, with thesaurus, search through dictionaries, translators, the CIA Factbook, etc.

Stöcker DeskTop Mathematik. (In German).

YAHOO: Top:Reference: Dictionaries

See also Links for Mineralogists, TOOLS 1, Geochemistry: On-line Geochemical Data

Glossaries

Amethyst Galleries, Inc., Mineral Full Text Search: Glossary of Terms This section describes the various mineral terms as we use them in the physical characteristics section of each mineral description.

University of California, Berkeley Museum, Natural History Glossary: Volume 2: Geology

Canadian Soil Information System (CanSIS): SOIL TERMS GLOSSARY

ChemScape, General Chemistry Division, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison: GENERAL CHEMISTRY GLOSSARY.

Hershel Friedman, The Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom: Glossary A comprehensive on-line glossary with hundreds of mineral terms and definitions and explanations regarding the subjects of minerals and gemstones.

Natural Ressources Canada: Glossary. focused on metals and minerals.

University of Oregon microprobe lab: Microprobe/SEM Glossary

S.M. Richardson & F.P. Deluca, Department of Geological Science, Iowa State University: Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms. This glossary of geologic terms is based on the glossary in Earth: An Introduction to Geologic Change, by S. Judson and S.M. Richardson (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall, 1995).

TVX Gold Inc.: Mining Terminology.

Worth Publishers: The Geologylink geologic glossary.

Eric W. Weisstein: Eric´s Treasure Trove of Chemistry, Eric´s Treasure Trove of Physics and Eric´s Treasure Trove of Astronomy.

Ask-An-Earth-Scientist

C&C Jewelers and Jamie Foster, Pismo Beach, CA: Ask Professor Gem. Just e-mail a question that´s on your mind. You´ll get your own e-mail response in return, and "Professor Gem" will post the questions and answers right here, too, so that everyone can benefit by the brave souls asking the questions.

Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu: Ask-An-Earth-Scientist. Submit questions to the faculty regarding the natural workings and natural history of the Hawaiian Islands and the world. They will try to reply via email to all earnest requests.

MAD Scientist Network: MAD Sci is a collective crania of scientists answering questions in many areas. MadSci Library provide access to other science sites and resources on the WWW including links to other "Ask-A-Scientist" sites.

US Geological Survey (USGS): Ask-A-Geologist. The USGS offers an internet e-mail service for general questions on earth sciences. Each e-mail message sent to Ask-A-Geologist is routed to a different USGS earth scientist. The scientist will reply to your question in a few days.

Ask a Volcanologist. This is your chance to ask anything about volcanoes that you want. The people who will answer are Scott Rowland in Hawaii, Chuck Wood and Steve Mattox in North Dakota, and if they get stumped, other volcano experts from around the world.

See also: Stevens Institute of Technology: Ask An Expert Page

National Geophysical Data Center and NASA

US Department of Commerce / National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The NGDC manages environmental data in the fields of marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, solar-terrestrial physics, solid earth geophysics, and glaciology. The Geophysical Data from the Solid Earth maintain extensive files of global environmental observations. Discipline areas include: topography, geomagnetism, global change, natural hazards, gravity, and geothermal data, including an updated global heat flow data base (ftp).

NASA
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration): Guide to NASA Online Resources - Scientific Resources. The organizations or projects listed and annotated here are scientific endeavors either sponsored by NASA, affiliated with NASA, or of interest to the NASA scientific community.
Also explore: Keyword Access or the Alphabetical List of Resources to the Guide to NASA online resources or its search engine, and the Resource Guide Home Page.

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration): EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM GLOSSARY.

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration): NASA Thesaurus.

NASA´s Mission to Planet Earth. Dedicated to understanding the many ways the Earth is constantly changing and how human beings influence those changes. The Scientific Data list gives information about the relevant projects.

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration): THE GLOBAL CHANGE MASTER DIRECTORY (GCMD). This site is a comprehensive source of information about earth science. With search engine.

The Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS). CDDIS supports data archiving and distribution activities for the space geodesy and geodynamics community.

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration): NASA Astrophysics Data System. At present the main emphasis is on the abstract service, which includes access to almost 1 million abstracts which can be searched by author, object name, keyword, title, or abstract text words.

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration): International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Information Center (ISTP). The network information center for the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Project, with database and ftp archive.

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration): Planetary Data System Geosciences Node. The Geosciences Node archives and distributes digital data related to the study of the surfaces and interiors of planetary bodies. Among other services, the Node maintains an online catalog of Magellan standard data products, through which users may place orders for products. The Geosciences Node is based at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration): Planetary Data System (PDS), ftp access: ftp://starhawk.jpl.nasa.gov/. PDS archives and distributes digital data from past and present NASA planetary missions, astronomical observations, and laboratory measurements.

Miscellaneous

AskERIC AskERIC is the Internet-based education information service of the federally-funded national information ERIC System, headquartered at the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology at Syracuse University. AskERIC is composed of three major components: AskERIC Q & A Service, AskERIC Virtual Library and AskERIC R&D (Research & Development). With search engine.

CORDIS, Community Research and Development Information Service, Luxembourg (an initiative of the European Commission): Search CORDIS Databases. CORDIS provides information about Research and Development sponsored and supported by the European Union. Search on criteria such as subject, programme acronyms, countries, organisation types, collaboration types and collaboration interests.

Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN), Australia: ERIN Database Gateway. Please note that the ERIN database is shutdown for backup each night, Monday to Friday, from 23:55 to 04:00 Australian EST and is unavailable at these times. These times correspond to the afternoon in Europe and the morning in the Americas.

Teaching Documents and Textbooks Online

Table of contents
Meta Indexes of Online Education
Introductions to Mineralogy and Petrology
Introductions to the Solid Earth and Plate Tectonics
Introductions to Thermobarometry
Introductions to Crystallography
Introductions to X Ray Diffraction
Introductions to Economic Mineralogy
Introductions to Geochemistry
Introductions to Geophysics
Introductions to Structural Geology

Meta Indexes of Online Education

AT&T, Center for Excellence in Distance Learning (CEDL): AT&T offers you technology to bring together diverse individuals from many locations for a shared learning experience.

Bajrai Enterprises NETwork, BENET, Meekatharra, West Australia: EDUCATIONAL LINKS.

BLUE WEB´N. A library of Blue Ribbon learning sites on the web. Explore the Earth Science subpage.

John C. Butler, Department of Geosciences, University of Houston (via Elsevier): Is The World Ready For A Virtual Geosciences Professor? Excellent links, see also The Virtual Geosciences Professor.

Alan Cairns: EarthEd: Earth Science Education Resources. An index of Hypertext documents and Curriculum development (lesson plans, labs, etc.)

Alan Cairns, University of Washington, EarthEd: Earth Science Education Resources: What´s New

UK Earth Science Courseware Consortium, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Manchester: Courseware modules for sale, e.g. optical mineralogy or petrogenesis of granitic rocks. Go to: Links to other useful sites. A multitude of WWW sites with information about earth science education, courseware, and computer-based learning.

The Earth System Science Community. Curriculum materials (research projects), tools (Earth System Visualizer) and resources (NASA data & info, student reports, biblio, tutorials) for conducting an investigation-oriented course in Earth system science. A NASA-funded project.

Computing and Network Services, Learning Online, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada: Tutorial Links for Academia. An ever-growing comprehensive reference for web-based tutorials.

Earth System Science Education Program (ESSE): The cooperative university-based program in Earth System Science Education (ESSE) that linked faculty from twenty-two U.S. universities with one another and with NASA scientists. Links to educational resources (materials for K-12, UG and graduate teaching) by type, topic, agency and by program (government, educational institution, non-profit, industry and international programs).

The Exploratorium, San Francisco: K-12 Resources. An annotated index.

The Geological Society, London: Geological resources for computer-aided learning, and Education and Training. The Geological Society is the UK´s national geological learned society and the professional body for UK geoscientists.

The Globewide Network Academy: Helping distance learners find what they are looking for. The Globewide Network Academy is an educational and research organization dedicated to providing a competitive marketplace online for distance learning courses and programs. Distance learning catalog with search engine.

Terry Gordon, University of Calgary: Teaching Resources, some web links to teaching development and resources sites, and Learning Resources, about science, writing, and problem solving skills.

E.J. Inglis-Arkell: ABCentral

The JASON Foundation: The JASON project The Mission of the JASON Foundation for Education is to excite and engage students in science and technology, and to motivate and provide professional development for their teachers through the use of advanced interactive telecommunications.

Sam Johnston, (CUUG), Calgary: GeoScience: K-12 Resources.This pretty annotated site is an ongoing project to see what relevant K-12 GeoScience resources are available.

University of Kansas: Explorer Science Curriculum - K-12. Go to: "Natural Science". More than 200 downloadable lessons on earth science.

S. Krumm, Institut für Geologie, Erlangen, Germany: The virtual class room. Teaching & learning on the net.

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Distance Education Clearinghouse: Overview of Distance Education and Distance Education Organizations and Other Information Sources.

Mineralogical Society of America: Teaching Resources in Mineralogy and Petrology

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration): NASA Online Educational Resources. This page is a collection of internet sources at NASA and affiliated organizations of interest to the education community. See also the Learning Link and the Guide to NASA Online Resources - Educational Resources pages.

Ted Smith, ORES: Geoscience Education Resources

StudyWEB. Search in a collection of over 15,000 research quality URLs.

Institute of Geology and Palaeontology University of Stuttgart (IGPS): Education

Texas Education Network (TENET): Resources for K-12 Educators. A nice annotated index.

U.S. Geological Survey: Teaching in The Learning Web. A collection of educational resources that can be used in the classroom to teach earth science concepts. Also explore: The Adventure Continues Beyond the USGS

Virtual Library, University of Geneva: Educational Technology.

Dave Waters, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford: Resources for Earth Science Teaching. An excellent resource.

The World Lecture Hall (WLH). This page contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials, e.g. course syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars, multimedia textbooks, etc.

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library (Charles Sturt University, Australia): Education.

Introductions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Jillian F. Banfield, Dep. of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Principles of Mineralogy. With a syllabus by topic, and a glossary of terms.

David A. Barthelmy: What is a Mineral? A collection of definitions on what constitutes a mineral.

John C. Butler, Department of Geosciences, University of Houston: Introduction to Petrography. Interesting site, partly links to other web pages and downloadable files integrated.

Pamela J.W. Gore, DeKalb College, Clarkston: Lecture notes. This Site includes topics as minerals, igneous- metamorphic- sedimentary rocks, crustal deformation, plate tectonics etc.

Mickey E. Gunter, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho: Mineralogy and Optical Mineralogy. Draft of "Mineralogy course" paper for workshop gang.

George D. Guthrie, Jr., Geology and Geochemistry, Los Alamos National Lab: Eat, breathe, and be wary: Mineralogy in environmental health. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

Mike Howard & Darcy Howard, Bob´s Rock Shop: Crystallography and Mineral Crystal Systems An illustrated, nine-part primer (4 parts available) on crystallography and mineral crystal systems.

Michelle Lamberson, Geological Sciences Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver: Introduction of Petrology. This site contains notes and self-directed exercises including petrology tools, which complement the lectures and laboratories of Geology 202. Excellent! See also other Course Web Sites.

Jack Rice, Dartmouth College, University of Washington (Seattle): Welcome to the Science of Mineralogy. Lecture notes provide information about crystal systems, Miller indices, Pauling´s rules, physical properties of minerals, symmetry operations in two or three dimensions, etc.

John C. Russ, North Carolina State University: Visualizations in Materials Science. Comprises chapters like atomic bonding, crystal structures, defects in crystals, diffusion, nucleation and growth, phase diagrams, and introduces in materials as ceramics and glasses, polymers, composites etc.

Paul A. Schroeder, Department of Geology, University of Georgia: GLY321 Introduction to Mineralogy and Crystallography Personal lecture notes, provided as reminder of the subject matter (Klein and Hurlbut, 21st Ed)

Joseph R. Smyth and Tamsin C. McCormick, University of Colorado, Geology 3010: Mineralogy: Fundamental Science of Earth Materials. Access to this outstanding site is also available by keywords,via Geology 3010 Mineralogy Syllabus Fall, 1995.

Volcano World (Hawaii Natural History Association), A Teacher´s Guide to the Geology of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Chapter 10: Minerals, Magmas, and Volcanic Rocks. Also available via Erlangen

For additional information also explore:

Stan Chernicoff & Ramesh Venkatakrishnan, Geologylink: Chapter 2, Minerals, and Chapter 7, Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks. Links to intro geology course notes on metamorphic rocks. Go to: Lecture Links.

Jürgen Kraus, Department of Geology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada: Petrology Courses, and Metamorphic Petrology Studies Groups. Sorted by countries.

Introductions to the Solid Earth and Plate Tectonics

American Geophysical Union, U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994: Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995. Reviews about the properties of the solid earth, dynamics of the solid earth, of other planets, space sciences, etc.

Orson L. Anderson, Center for Physics and Chemistry of Planets, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California at Los Angeles: Mineral physics of iron and of the core. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

Pranoti M. Asher, Alexis A. Beard, Rachel E. Sours-Page, Dept. of Geology, #Pomona College, Claremont, CA.: PETROLOGY AND PLATE TECTONICS. Teaching tool, provides petrographic and geochemical characteristics on the most common igneous rock associations, including ocean floor basalts, intra-plate oceanic basalts, island arc volcanics, continental flood basalts, and continental magmatic arc volcanics.

Peter Bird, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles: Lithosphere dynamics and continental deformation. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

James M. Brenan, Earth Sciences Department, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California: Melts and fluids: An overview of recent advances. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

Julia Cole, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder: Global Change: an Earth Sciences Perspective. See: The structure and tectonics of Earth

Charles DeMets, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Plate motions and crustal deformation. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

Thomas S. Duffy and Russell J. Hemley, Geophysical Laboratory and Center for High-Pressure Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington D.C.: Some like it hot: The temperature structure of the Earth. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

Calvin J. Hamilton: Earth Introduction:. Go to: Earth's Interior & Plate Tectonics. Chapter is part of the Views of the Solar System.

Mark A. Horrell, Physics Department, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA): Plate Tectonics: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Mountain Building. Topics are: Getting information about an earthquake from a seismogram, earthquakes and plate tectonics, and volcanoes and plate tectonics.

Susan E. Humphris, Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts: Hydrothermal processes at mid-ocean ridges. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

Shun-ichiro Karato, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, and Teng-fong Wong, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook: Rock deformation: Ductile and brittle. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

Scott D. King, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana: The viscosity structure of the mantle. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

Rosamund J. Kinzler, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, New York: Magmatism at ocean ridges. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

J. Kious & R.I.Tilling, U.S. Geological Survey: This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics. With information about mantle thermal plumes, "hotspots": - understanding plate motions, developing the theory, plate tectonics and people, etc.

Kristine M. Larson, Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder: Crustal deformation. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

A.E.H. Love: Some Problems of Geodynamics. (page images at Cornell)

Department of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon, The Electronic Universe Project: Plate Tectonics.

M. Person, Department of Geology and Geophysics, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and L. Baumgartner, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison: New evidence for long-distance fluid migration within the earth´s crust. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

Paul H. Roberts, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles: Dynamics of the core, geodynamo. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

Susan Schwartz, University of California, Santa Cruz: The Dynamic Earth. 22 chapter provide information about the mechanisms and driving forces of Earth deformation including plate tectonics, structural deformation of rocks, and material and heat transport.

Lars Stixrude, Institut für Geophysik, Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany: Mineral physics of the mantle. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

Paul J. Tackley, Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California: Mantle dynamics: Influence of the transition zone. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

Volcano World: A Teacher´s Guide to the Geology of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. This book is published and copyrighted by the Hawaii Natural History Association.

Edward D. Young, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford: Fluid flow in metamorphic environments. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

Introductions to Thermobarometry

Terence M. (Terry) Gordon, Department of Geology and Geophysics University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada: INVEQ Concepts

John C. Russ, North Carolina State University: Chapter 9 - Phase Diagrams, The Gibbs Phase Rule. Part of "Visualizations in Materials Science".

Dave Waters, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford: Practical Aspects of Mineral Thermobarometry. Here is a set of linked documents aimed at helping students to work with real mineral data.

Introductions to Crystallography

David A. Barthelmy: Crystallography. Minerals listed by crystal system.

J. Gelder, Oklahoma State University: Introduction to Cubic Crystal Lattice Structures. Simple cubic, body-centered cubic and face-centered cubic are the three types of arrangements in the cubic crystal system here displayed.

Mike Howard & Darcy Howard, Bob´s Rock Shop: Crystallography and Mineral Crystal Systems An illustrated, nine-part primer (4 parts available) on crystallography and mineral crystal systems.

Molecular Structure Center, Indiana University, Crystallography and Mineralogy: Shape and Forms. A page illustrating cubic, tetrahedral, octahedral, and dodecahedral solids, and coordination geometries based on them. Requires Java equipped viewer. The Isometric Crystal System. A page showing some of the isometric forms using Java applets.

Carroll K. Johnson, & Michael N. Burnett, Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Crystallographic Topology. The topology of crystallographic groups and simple crystal structures. A tutorial.

University of Queensland: Introduction to Crystal Structures. Using VRML demonstrations.

Department of Geosciences, Indiana University-Purdue University (IPFW), Fort Wayne: The Web Accessible Diffractometer. More than a simple demonstration of technology, this site provides a useful tool for teaching and doing X-ray diffraction at places that don't have the necessary equipment.

Thomas Proffen & Reinhard Neder, Department of Crystallography, Munich, Germany: Teaching Diffraction with the Aide of Computer Simulations". Also available via Research School of Chemistry, Canberra, Australia.

Wilson Group, University of California, San Diego: X-Ray Diffraction. Main chapters are: Introduction to diffraction, how diffraction works, crystals, and other techniques in diffraction.

Economic Mineralogy and Ore Mineralogy

Phil Brown, Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Geology 410: Minerals as a Public Problem. Accessible chapters (chiefly in keywords) are: Minerals, rocks and time; Introduction to mineral resources and geologic processes and the formation of mineral deposits; Nonferrous metals (Cu, Pb, Zn, Sn) and unconventional mineral deposits, etc.

Department of Chemistry, University of the West Indies, Jamaica: The Chemistry and Processing of Jamaican Bauxite. The extraction of alumina from bauxite.

Michel Jébrak, Département des Sciences de la Terre, Université du Québec à Montréal: Geology of Ore Deposits. Geology of the deposits, their geodynamic setting, mineralogy of the ore, genetic models, and main controls and prospecting techniques. Ore deposits—from magmatic to supergene mineralizations— throughout hydrothermal and sedimentary deposits. In French.

C. John Mann, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, GEOLOGY 105: Geology of Natural Energy Resources. All natural energy sources, except biomass, are considered in this course.

Michael A. Mckibben, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside: Ore deposits. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

Department of Geology, University of Pretoria: Online Ore Microscopy Course. A brief introduction provides information about fundamental techniques and the terminology used in text books.

Worth to explore:

Stan Chernicoff & Ramesh Venkatakrishnan, Geologylink (Worth Publishers), Chapter 20, Human Use of the Earth´s Resources: Lecture Links

KNOWLEDGE 2, Links for Mineralogists: Mineral and Ore Deposits.

Introductions to Geochemistry

W.R. Church, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada: Course: Introductory Geochemistry. Partly with explanations, e.g. the geochemical cycle and plate tectonics, the relationship between rock and mineral chemistry, the concept of free energy and the relative stability of minerals, etc.

Learning Curve, one of Australia´s leading multimedia developers: A downloadable demoversion of the Exploration Geochemistry course (2.25MB). EXPGEOCH.EXE

Clive R. Neal, Department of Civil Engineering & Geological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana: Geochemical analysis of small samples: Micro-analytical techniques for the nineties and beyond. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

Compiled by Joseph E. Taggart, Jr., U.S.Geological Survey: Understanding Our Planet Through Chemistry. This WWW document describes the role of (Geo)chemistry in issues vital to our economy, health, and well-being. Articels by different authors, concerning earth history, recorded in chemistry, geologic processes, environment, pollution and pollution prevention, mapping the chemistry of the earth's surface, public health and safety: element maps of soils, etc.

Brian M. Tissue, Science Hypermedia, Inc., Blacksburg: Analytical Chemistry Basics. The goal of this on-line course is to provide the user with an introduction to some of the fundamental concepts and methods of analytical chemistry. Visit the Index of Educational Documents!

Brian M. Tissue, Science Hypermedia, Inc., Blacksburg: Introduction to Mass Spectrometry. Brief introduction.

Art F. White, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California: Applications of mineral surface chemistry to environmental problems. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

William M. White, Geological Sciences, 455/Geochemistry, Cornell University: Geochemistry: an online textbook. In pdf format packed downloadable chapters, e.g. applications of thermodynamics to the earth, trace elements in igneous processes, stable isotope geochemistry, solutions and solids and the earth's surface, etc. Chapters continuously uptated.

William M. White, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York: Geochemical tracers of mantle processes. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

Introductions to Geophysics

Jeffrey S. Barker, Department of Geological Sciences, State University of New York, Binghamton: Demonstrations of Geophysical Principles Applicable to the Properties and Processes of the Earth's Interior. Comprises demonstrations about rheology, seismic waves, reflection, rigidity and velocity, earthquake location, density of the earth etc.

Kenneth P. Kodama, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Magnetic fabrics. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

Ronald T. Merrill, Graduate Program in Geophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, and Susan L. Halgedahl, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City: Theoretical and experimental studies of magnetic domains. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

R.S. Nerem, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center: Terrestrial and planetary gravity fields. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

Jeffrey D. Phillips and David V. Fitterman, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado: Environmental Geophysics. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

Carol A. Raymond, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, and Richard J. Blakely, U. S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California: Crustal magnetic anomalies. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

Introductions to Structural Geology

W.R. Church, Geology 200, University of Western Ontario, Canada: Tectonics and Lithology. The aim of course 200B is to provide students in Earth Science programs an opportunity to examine the nature of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rock assemblages found in the main tectonic environments delineated by plate tectonic theory, namely, rifts, passive continental margins, ocean basins, oceanic and continental margin arcs, collisional and extensional zones, the upper mantle, and lower and upper continental crust.

Ben A. van der Pluijm (Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan), and Stephen Marshak (Columbia University): EarthStructure: An Introduction to Structural Geology and Tectonics. This book is written for the student who is taking a first course in structural geology and tectonics, to provide sufficient background for topics to make them comprehensible. Most chapters are self-contained modules that can be arranged in various sequences.

See also:
John C. Butler, Department of Geosciences, University of Houston, Geology Course Resources on the Internet: Structural Geology

Jürgen Kraus, Department of Geology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada: Structural Geology Courses

Preprints and selected Online Paper

Meta Indexes

Science & Engineering Library, University of California: Article Indexes for the Sciences.

Gateways

John C. Butler, Department of Geosciences, University of Houston: Virtual Poster Sessions.

CANMET Information Centre (CIC). CIC has the most comprehensive collection of Canadian technical literature dealing with mining, minerals, metals and energy technology. The collection includes journals, technical reports, conference proceedings, books, academic dissertations and translations.

Common Information Service System (CISS). CISS is an information system provided as a public service by the Pittsburgh Research Center (formerly the U.S. Bureau of Mines). Thousands of publications are stored in the database in bibliographic form and may include abstracts. More recent publications are stored in the database in their entirety.

Sonderforschungsbereich 350 (SFB 350), University of Bonn: "Interactions of continental geosystems and their modeling". This WWW site contains complete information about SFB 350 and its projects which has been incorporated in the database ADaM. ADaM serves research finds by keyword- and regional search and a comprehensive index list (in German).

Jiwchar GANOR, Alan MATTHEWS, Manfred SCHLIESTEDT, Zvi GARFUNKEL: Oxygen isotopic heterogeneities of metamorphic rocks: an original tectonostratigraphic signature, or an imprint of exotic fluids? A case study of Sifnos and Tinos islands (Greece).

Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), and NASA Astrophysics Data System, Abstract Service: Physics and Geophysics. 220 000 abstracts from physics and geophysics articles. Astronomy. 240 000 abstracts from astronomical articles. By keyword search! Superbly done.

The Ocean Drilling Program (ODP): ODP is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and 17 other countries to conduct basic research into the history of the ocean basins and the overall nature of the crust beneath the ocean floor using the scientific drill ship, JOIDES Resolution. Now the preliminary reports can be accessed electronically. With search engine.

University of Lausanne: Publications of the Department of Earth Sciences, and ABSTRACTS OF SOME RECENT Ph.D. THESIS.

American Association of Petroleum Geologists: GEOBYTE. AAPG´s purpose is to foster the spirit of scientific research among its members and to advance the science of geology. Not only as it relates to petroleum, natural gas, other subsurface fluids, as well for mineral resources.

American Geophysical Union (AGU): Science for Everyone. Selected Publications of AGU.

Prepared by the American Geophysical Union: U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995). Extensive contributions, e.g. in properties of the solid earth and dynamics of the solid earth.

Springer: Links. A lot of the material available on this server is free of charge, such as access to catalogs, meta-information and requests for abstracts, which are fully accessible to anybody. Access to complete articles is restricted to subscribers to the printed version, who can apply for a user-ID and password. With search engine.

U.S. National Geophysical Data Center, NGDC Marine Geology Inventory (GEOLIN): GEOLIN is a computerized inventory of all marine geology data archived by, and available through NGDC. GEOLIN includes inventory information for over 900 reports/data sets, and over 90,000 seafloor samples.