Geology and Mineral Resources

Links, Books and Places to Visit

Featured links for January 2012:

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
National Geologic Map Database - find maps by location, author, year, theme, scale etc.
GeoLex (names) Database - find formations by name and see historic context, references, and current usage
Snow Crystals.com from CalTech - a fun and beautiful site
Wetland, Woodland and Wildland by E. Thompson and E. Sorenson (on-line version)
Think you have a meteorite? Check this out: meteorite-Identification.com
Windows to the Universe - paleoclimate site

Vermont Geology Sites
College and University Sites: Middlebury College Field Trips New England Intercollegiate Geologic Conference (NEIGC) Vermont Mining Perkins Geology Museum at UVM University of Vermont Geology Dept.	Geologic Time Divisions of Geologic Time - Major Chronostratigraphic and Geochronologic Units, USGS Fact Sheet 2007-3015 (170kb pdf file)
General Vermont Geology: Geology of Vermont, Barry Doolan, 1996 (7.4 mb pdf) Geology of the Champlain Valley The Vermont Marble Trail - guidebook	Glacial Geology of Vermont: Deglaciation and the Champlain Sea Glacial Lake Hitchcock Friends of the Pleistocene Field Trip Guidebooks Late-Glacial History of Vermont
Earthquakes: Link to a List of Current Earthquake Activity Why Does the Earth Quake in New England?	MAPS & Other Information Historic USGS topographic maps for New England states (15 min. quads) from UNH National Geologic Map Database, USGS Vermont Geodetic Survey at AOT (Interactive benchmark map) Vermont Agency of Transportation Online Map Center Old Maps of Vermont - includes 1850s county maps (commercial site) Geological Outcrop Maps of the Taconic Allochthon, adjacent Ordovician flysch and melange, and the N. Appalachian fold-thrust belt from Bill Kidd at SUNY Albany.
Mineral Resources & Soils: National Geochemical Survey - Database - US Geological Survey Photographs of Minerals at Belvidere Mountain Private Water Well Data for State of Vermont Soils Information, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Soils Web Map SIte- create your own map and print a pdf Stone Quarries and Beyond USGS Mineral Resource Data USGS Geophysical, Geochemical and Mineral Data Sets Vermont Soils Information	Other: Burlington Gem and Mineral Club Homepage Geological Society of New Hampshire REAL-TIME DATA FROM USGS (earthquake, volcano, stream data & bird migration) Slate Valley Museum USGS Photo Library Vermont Center for Geographic Information Vermont Geological Society Marble Minutes - a history focused blog by C. Miglorie, Dir. of the VT Marble Museum Vermont Archaeology, Div. of Historic Preservation

Favorite Internet Sites
Rocks, Minerals & Field and Microscopic Identification: Atlas of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks, Minerals and textures, UNC CSU's Rock and Mineral Identification Bob's Rock Shop	Virtual Field Trips: National Park Service Tour Virtual Field Trips, University of Houston Virtual Field Trips, Thomson Learning High Points Geology Earth As Art - beautiful Landsat 7 satellite views of the planet
Groundwater: USGS Ground-Water Resources Homepage	Plate Tectonics and Structural Geology: Paleomap Project (C. Scotese's projections of Earth through time) Learn Structure, University of Leeds
Energy: US Dept. of Energy DOE Geothermal Technologies Site The Future of Geothermal Energy (14.1 mb pdf), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006	Dinosaurs and Paleontology: UCMP at Berkeley (paleontology museum/site) Dinosauria
Other Sites to Visit: The Blue Marble - color global images from the NASA Earth Observatory Climate Change- EPA Earth Science World Image Bank Earth Science Picture of the Day EarthScope MIRAGE - over 10,000 on-line maps from the Geological Survey of Canada	Other Sites to Visit: OneGeology Portal Understanding Evolution Snow Crystals.com from CalTech - a fun and beautiful site The Cryosphere Today Degree Confluence Project ( integer degree intersections of the world) Earthworks-jobs US Dept. of Labor Job Outlook Skills for Geoscientists ( from AAPG, 2002)

National Organizations/Government

American Geological Institute
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Association of American State Geologists
Geological Society of America
United States Geological Survey
USGS Geologic Time
Magnetic Declination from NOAA
National Geologic Map Database, USGS
OSTI - Office of Scientific and Technical Information : web-based searchable databases and portals
Science.gov - searches web sites from 14 US government agencies
National Research Council Synopsis of reports on Earth Science, Water, Climate Change, Energy and more