Webster's

Possible subjects for discussion would include all aspects of solid earth geology and geophysics (including, but NOT limited to: plate tectonics, tectonophysics, petrology, mineralogy, volcanology, structural geology, paleontology, sedimentary processes, basin analysis, seismic exploration, seismic stratigraphy, petroleum geology, seismology, geochemistry, glaciation, groundwater hydrology, hydrogeology, geochronology, paleomagnetism, paleoclimatology). This notwithstanding, there are, in some cases, ng's better "equipped" to deal with some questions, such as mineralogy questions (sci.geo.mineralogy) or questions to do with earthquakes (sci.geo.earthquakes). There are also ng's dealing with hydrology, rivers + lakes, fluids, etc. If you have no luck in this ng you should try another, possibly more appropriate, forum. It can help us keep each other informed on upcoming events of interest to earth science researchers and workers, and computing in the earth sciences. It can be used to answer queries from laymen, geologists and geoscientists, and students of all disciplines. This explicitly implies that it can be used for the passing on of knowledge to aspiring geoscientists, in such a manner as to assist them in their studies and keep/build up their interest in geology. Nevertheless, it should be said (especially to students of the geosciences) that, although the group endeavours to be helpful, the FAQ is here to be used. After checking the FAQ and the links it contains, please feel free to post your question to the group. Very simple questions will normally be scorned upon.

Purpose and basics:

The newsgroup "sci.geo.geology" is intended primarily for discussions at a level which would be relevant and informative to active researchers and workers in earth sciences (i.e. earth scientists and students), but is open for general discussions as well. It hosts discussions, debates, and comments that are less formal and more timely than is possible in juried, peer reviewed scientific journals. It is a clearinghouse for exchange of information, ideas, programs, images, data, and citations. If you would like to make images, programs or large amounts of data available to the group you should put them on a web site and POST A LINK to the ng with your invitation. DO NOT post images or other binary files, or masses of data to the ng! It is also advisable for those interested in downloading such information to have a good anti-virus program installed. Also belonging to basics is rudimentary netiquette: It is NOT good netiquette to post in HTML, you can be severely annoying, and cost others money, by doing so. Nor is it good netiqutte to reply to posts with private email; you are not only possibly invading the privacy of others, without invitation, but you are also depriving the ng of information and participation in the discussion, which is against the purpose of the group. Also consider that something which you may believe to be trivial may be of value to others less knowledgeable (e.g. students, lay persons). If in doubt, ask if you may send email. Nor need you be afraid of giving a possibly incorrect answer in public (as I often do:-); most (serious) members of the ng will correct you. They won't pull you to pieces though, if they can see that you are making a genuine attempt, and not just being silly for some reason. Another "no" is swearing and cursing! We don't like it! Here is a summary of the most basic "rules":

- Never forget that there is a person at the other end.
- Read first, then think, then read again, then think again, then reply.
- Keep it factual and to the point.
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- Learn how to use filters; you'll probably need them!
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If you have a good ISP, you should be able to get further details of basic netiqutte from them. Do it! Now!

It is up to us to see that the n.g. remains at (regains) a high standard and does not revert to a bickering lounge every time something is disputed.

ajohnson(at)t-online.de (Alan Johnson)
15.07.00

2. Where do I look for the On-line Resources for Earth Scientists Guide (ORES) (Bill Thoen's ORES document)? (Formerly called the Earth Sciences Internet Resource Guide)

anonymous ftp: ftp.csn.org
COGS subdirectory
ores.txt

ftp-by-mail instructions:
Send the following message to: bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu

FTP: ftp.csn.org
CD COGS
GET ores.txt
CLOSE

The guide will arrive in a couple pieces that you will have to reassemble. The guide is also available in HTML at: http://www.englib.cornell.edu/geology_resources/ORES/earthscience.html

Unfortunately Ted Smith's version is no longer maintained:-(

3. What questions/statements shouldn't be posted to s.g.g.?

If you are asking yourself whether or not a subject is appropriate for s.g.g then I suggest you read the charter (1.). Since the group is unmoderated, not a lot (legally) can be done if you choose to post a message outside the charter. Not-withstanding this, here is a list of subjects and suggested newsgroups that are more appropriate than s.g.g:

Subject A more appropriate newsgroup Creationism/Evolution talk.origins Digital geography or cartography comp.infosystems.gis GPS sci.geo.satellite-nav Make money fast suggestion needed

4. Are there any song lyrics related to Geology?

I have tried to compile a list: (Lars Aronsson, 18.08.94, modified by me (ajohnson(at)t-online.de))

- Carl Ruggles: "Of Men and Mountains" - PDQ Bach: "The Stoned Guest" - Paul Simon: "Love me like a rock" - Mendelssohn: "Fingal's Cave" (The Hebridean Overture) - Tori Amos' album: "Little Earthquakes." - Bob Dylan: "Blowin' in the Wind" "How many years can a mountain exist before it is washed to the sea?"   - Pete Seeger: If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the mornin', I'd hammer in the evenin', all over this land. - Grofe: "Grand Canyon Suite" "Fossils" from Carnival of Animals (Saint-Saens)   - Hovhaness: "Mt. St. Helens Symphony" - Cass Elliot: "The fault line runs right through here" - Antoine Brumel: "Missa Et ecce terrae motus" - The Earthquake Mass - Stravinsky: "Rites of Spring" with reference to Disney's Fantasia. - Holst: "The Planets" - Warren Zevon: And if California slides into the ocean like the mystics and statistics say it will I predict this hotel will be standing until I pay my bill - This Mortal Coil: Catastrophe - Sting: We work the black seam - Tom Waits: Diamonds and Gold - Joy Division: Living in the Ice Age

5. World Wide Web and related sites for geoscience.

As always, suggestions are welcome, as well as hints on dead or defunct links. I especially (but not only!) welcome links for non-American and non-English speaking sites!

5.1 General

5.1.1 General Information and Resources

Aluminium Foil Deflector Beanie Homepage. The ultimate site for all SERIOUS geoscientists
http://members.tripod.com/%7Ezoam/afdb.html

The sci.geo.petroleum FAQ has a very extensive link list, and a lot of useful stuff for geoscientists. It is HTML'ised at:
http://www.slb.com/petr.dir
Thanks to Bob Downie (bob@downie.demon.co.uk)
(http://www.downie.demon.co.uk)

Internet FAQ archives
http://www.faqs.org/faqs
Thanks to David Ramalho (earthscibbs@home.com)

Ask-A-Geologist
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/docs/ask-a-ge.html

The Geologist's Lifetime Field List
http://www.uc.edu/www/geology/geologylist/

Earth Science Site of the Week
http://agcwww.bio.ns.ca/misc/geores/sotw/sotw.html

The Nine Planets
http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp/

Geoscience Information Center
http://geosciences.org

Geological Current Events
http://www.azstarnet.com/~dshakel/linkspg1.html

Geology (links to n.g.'s and org's and WWW Virtual Library)
http://www.fdgroup.co.uk/neo/fsi/geology.html

Geologie für Einsteiger
http://servermac.geologie.uni-frankfurt.de/GFE/titlebar.html

Geology Dictionary
http://www.iversonsoftware.com/geology/geology-a.html

Earth Science Resource Links at the University of Geneva, Switzerland
http://www.unige.ch/sciences/terre/esr/

Thanks to David Ramalho (earthscibbs@home.com)

Quaternary Data (Links to quaternary science sites)
http://ibs.uel.ac.uk/ibs/other/env/quat.html

Oregon State Geosciences Web Resources
http://terra.geo.orst.edu/res.html

COGS - The Computer Orientated Geological Society
http://www.csn.net/~tbrez/cogs/

Geoindex: A Search Engine for Geo-environmental Professionals
http://www.geoindex.com/geoindex

Phase Diagrams
http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/asm_tms/phase_diagrams/

West's Geology Directory - an extensive link site
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw

Royal Meteorological Society (UK) - weather data
http://www.royal-met-soc.org.uk

Geological symbols (hatching, mapping) at Pangaea Scientific
http://pangaeasci.com/

and the USGS

http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/open-file-reports/ofr-95-0526/

Bergbau, Hüttenwesen und Geowissenschaften
http://www.rwth-aachen.de/zentral/sul_fb05.htm

AGIWEB Home Page - American Geological Institute
A very exhaustive collection of links to anything and everything geological
http://www.agiweb.org

Mining Technology Home Page
http://www.mining-technology.com/

Geology.com: Earth Science on the Web
http://geology.com/body.htm

ATSE - The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineeing. Regularly features articles relevant to Earth Sciences
wysiwig://71/http://www.artse.org.au/

Stockholms Amatörgeologiska Sällskap - Amatuer Geologist's Society of Stockholm (?)
http://w1.850.telia.com/~u85005309/

Earth Net
Virtual Resource Centre for earth Science Educators
http://agc.bio.ns.ca/EarthNet/

Geology.com: Earth Science on the Web
http://geology.com/body.htm

Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms
http://www.geology.iastate.edu/new 100/glossary.html

5.1.2 Mineralogy and minerals

Mineral Gallery
http://mineral.galleries.com/

Mineralogy
http://un2sg1.unige.ch/www/athena/mineral/mineral.html

Smithsonian Gem & Mineral Collection
http://galaxy.einet.net/images/gems/gems-icons.html

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
http://www.tms.org

Mineralogical Society of America
http://www.minsocam.org

USGS Minerals Information
http://minerals.er.usgs.gov/minerals

Links for Mineralogists
http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/links.html

Natural History Museum (U.K.) Mineralogy Page
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/mineralogy/

Virtual Atlas of Opaque and Ore Minerals in their Associations
http://www.smenet.org/opaque-ore

Museum of Mineralogy at the Ecole des Mines de Paris
(Musee de mineralogie)
http://www.cri.ensmp.fr/mineral/

Smithsonian Institution Department of Mineral Sciences
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/minsci/index.htm

Rock and Mineral Societies of Scandinavia and the World
http://www.sarf.org/scand/index.html

DMG-Homepage - Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft
http://www.dmg.uni-koeln.de

5.1.3 Rocks

Rock Cycle
http://www.science.ubc.ca/~geol202/rock_cycle/rockcycle.html

Rock Families
http://www.science.ubc.ca/~geol202/

Rock and Mineral Societies of Scandinavia and the World
http://www.sarf.org/scand/index.html

Bob's Rock Shop
http://www.rockhounds.com

IAGOD Home Page
International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/mineralogy/seltmann/IAGOD/index.html

IGCP-373
International Geological Correlation Programme
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/mineralogy/seltmann/IGCP/index.html

5.1.4 Igneous Rocks

Igneous Rocks
http://www.science.ubc.ca/~geol202/igneous/igneous.html

Granite
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rmr/general.html#links

5.1.5 Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks

Sedimentary Rocks
http://www.science.ubc.ca/~geol202/sed/sedimentary.html

Society for Sedimentary Geology
http://www.sepm.org

5.1.6 Metamorphic Rocks

Metamorphic Rocks
http://www.science.ubc.ca/~geol202/meta/metamorphic.html

Skarn Page
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~meinert/skarnHP.html

DJW's Metamorphic Petrology Links
http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~davewa/metpet.html

5.1.7 Volcanoes

Cascades Volcano Observatory
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/home.html

The Electronic Volcano
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~volcano/

Hawaii Centre for Volcanology
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/hcv.html

Volcanoes at Mich. Tech. University
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes

Volcano World
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vw.html

Japan's Volcano Research Centre
http://hakone.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/vrc/VRC.html

VESUVIUS: The making of a catastrophe
http://idt.net/~dobran/HPrest.html

5.1.8 Weathering and Erosion

Acid Rain Resources
http://www.econet.apc.org/acidrain

U.S. Soil Survey
http://www.nhq.nrcs.usda.gov/BCS/soil/survey.html

5.1.9 Rocks and the Geologic Time Scale

Paleontology Without Walls
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibit/exhibits.html

Grand Canyon Explorer
http://www.kaibab.org/

Radon in Earth, Air and Water
http://sedwww.cr.usgs.gov:8080/radon/radonhome.html

Web Geological Time Machine
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.html

Geologic Ages of Earth History
With a downloadable, zipped Microsoft Excel Worksheet Version
http://www.dinosauria.com/dml/history.htm

Ocean Drilling Stratigraphic Network
http://www.odsn.de/odsn/index.html

5.1.10 Rock Deformation

Structure and Tectonics Groups on the WWW
http://craton.geol.brocku.ca/guest/jurgen/SITES.HTM

Rock Deformation and Geological Structures
http://www.man.ac.uk/Geology/CAL/deform.html

Rock Deformation research Group
http://www.rdr.leeds.ac.uk/

5.1.11 Mass Wasting

FEMA Backgrounder: Landslides and Mudflows
http://www.fema.gov/library/landslif.htm

Other FEMA disaster information can be found at:
http://www.fema.gov/library/factshts.htm

Geologic Hazards Team - NLIC (Landslides)
http://landslides.usgs.gov/html_files/nlicsun.shtml

Mass Wasting
http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~pgore/geology/geo101/masswasting.html

Landslides Lecture Notes
http://www.geo.arizona.edu/palynology/geos210/lec_07.html

SITE PLANNING - BUILDING ON SLOPES
http://www.arch.cuhk.edu.hk/~patrick/slope/front.htm

5.1.12 Groundwater, Karst and Caving

Missouri Springs Virtual Resurgence
http://www.missourisprings.com
or
http://members.socket.net/~joschaper/jspring.html

The Edwards Aquifer
http://eardc.swt.edu/Edwards-info.html

National Climatic Data Centre
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/

National Water Data Exchange
http://h2o.usgs.gov/public/nawdex/nawdex.html

Water Resources of the United States
http://h2o.usgs.gov/

WKU Karst Studies (Western Kentucky University)
http://karst.wku.edu/

Australian Speleological Federation
http://rubens.its.unimelb.edu.au/~pgm/asf/

Arsenic in drinking water
http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact210.html

Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water (USA)
http://www.epa.gov/OGWDW

5.1.13 Rivers and Lakes

Dartmouth (U.S.A.) Flood Observatory
http://www.dartmouth.edu/artsci/geog/floods/

Daily Flood Summary
http://wwwagwx.ca.uky.edu/public/WSHFLNNMC

Water Resources of the United States
http://h2o.usgs.gov/

Kentucky University Weather and Climate Information
http://wwagwx.ca.uky.edu/drought.html

5.1.14 Winds and Deserts

Tracking Environmental Change in West Africa
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/usaid/tap.html

The Winds of Mars
http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/pub/publications/slidesets/winds.html

Wind Erosion Research
http://www.weru.ksu.edu/

Desert Winds Project
http://wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/Land/desert/html/techinfo.html

5.1.15 Glaciers and Ice

Monitoring Glacier Changes from Space
http://sdcd.gsfc.nasa.gov/GLACIER.BAY/hall.science.txt.html

Glacier and Ice Sheet Research Group
http://glacier.lowtem.hokudai.ac.jp/index-e.htm

Glaciological research
http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/~fowler/research/glaciology.html

Glaciers and Glaciations - Ice Sheets and Glacial Lakes
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/Glaciers/framework.html

5.1.16 Landscape Evolution

CRC LEME
Cooperative Research Center for Landscape Evolution and Mineral Exploration
http://leme.anu.edu.au/

NUMERICAL MODELS of LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION
http://adder.ocean.dal.ca/philippe/LEM_Numerical_models.html

GEOMORPHOLOGY HOME PAGE
University of Virginia
http://erode.evsc.virginia.edu/

British Geomorphological Research Group
http://boris.qub.ac.uk/bgrg/

5.1.17 Oceans

FEMA Fact Sheet: Hurricanes
http://www.fema.gov/fema/hurricaf.html

Ocean Planet
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean-planet.html

USGS Center for Coastal Geology
http://stimpy.er.usgs.gov/

USGS Marine and Coastal Geology Program
http://marine.usgs.gov/

USGS Woods Hole Field Center
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/

NOAA VENTS Program
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/home.html

Exploration of Mid-Ocean Ridges
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/BRIDGE/

5.1.18 Earthquakes

National Earthquake Information Center
http://www.neic.cr.usgs.gov/

Caltech Seismological Laboratory
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/seismo/seismo.page.html

Tsunami
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/intro.html

Seismology and Earthquake Information
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/SEIS/welcome.html

USGS: Latest Earthquake Information
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/QUAKES/CURRENT/index.html

San Francisco Bay Area Earthquake Map
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/SF_Bay.html

5.1.19 Earth's Interior

Earth's Interior
http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/interior.html

Earth's Interior & Plate Tectonics
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/earthint.htm

Earth's Interior
http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/interior.html

5.1.20 Plate Tectonics

NGDC Marine Geology and Geophysics Division
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/mggd.html

Ocean Drilling Program
http://www-odp.tamu.edu/

Plate Motion Calculator
http://manbow.ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/tamaki-html/plate_motion.html

Plate Tectonics
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/msh/ov/ovpt/ovpt.html

Structure and Tectonics Groups on the WWW
http://craton.geol.brocku.ca/guest/jurgen/SITES.HTM

Caribbean Geology & Tectonics Website
http://www.fiu.edu/orgs/caribgeol

Welcome to the World Stress Map (WSM)
http://www-wsm.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de

Plate Tectonics: History of an Idea
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/techist.html

This Dynamic Earth (USGS)
http://pubs-usgs-gov/publications/text/dynamic.html

Plate Tectonics
A whole new way of looking at your planet
http://www.platetectonics.com/index.html

Plate Tectonic Reconstructions at UTIG
http://www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/plates/plates.html

The Active Tectonics Web Server
http://www.muohio.edu/tectonics/ActiveTectonics.html

5.1.21 Crustal Deformation

SCEC Crustal Deformation Working Group
http://www-socal.wr.usgs.gov/hudnut/scec/SCEC_Group_E.html

Crustal Deformation Measurements in California
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/QUAKES/crustaldef/

Deformation studies at Hekla volcano
http://www.norvol.hi.is/hekladeform.html

Plate motions and crustal deformation
http://earth.agu.org/revgeophys/demets01/demets01.html

5.1.22 Energy Resources

Yucca Mountain Project
http://yucca_web.ymp.gov/

Oil & Natural Gas Engineering Research
http://bonanza.mr.ic.ac.uk/research/onge.html

5.1.23 Mineral Resources

US Geological Survey Minerals Information
http://minerals.er.usgs.gov/minerals/

Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration
http://www.smenet.org

College of Engineering and Mineral Resources (CEMR) at West Virginia University (WVU).
http://www.cemr.wvu.edu/index2.html

Central Region Mineral Resources Team
http://minerals.cr.usgs.gov/

5.1.24 Earth Systems, Impacts

Climate Processes over the Oceans
http://eos.atmos.washington.edu/

Comet Observation Home Page
http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov

Climate Change
http://www.ucsusa.org/globalwarming/index.html

U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/

Terrestrial Impact Craters
http://www.meteorite.ch/tercrate.htm

5.1.25 Geophyics

Craig Jones' Paleomagnetism
http://cires.colorado.edu/people/jones.craig/CHJ_PMag_overview.html

Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists
http://www.aseg.org.au

Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
http://www.aseg.org

With thanks to Benoît de Cabissole (cabi@icon.co.za)

National Geophysical Data Center (US)
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/

IRIS: Data Management System
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
http://www.iris.washington.edu/DOCS/dms.htm

5.1.26 Geochemistry

The Geochemical Society
http://gs.wustl.edu/

The British Organic Geochemical Society
http://www.bogs.org.uk/

Marine Geochemistry Group
http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/CHD/chemgrp/Title.htm

Center for Environmental Chemistry and Geochemistry
http://www.essc.psu.edu/CECG/

5.1.27 Remote Sensing

Hong Kong Baptist University Remote Sensing & Image Interpretation
http://geog.hkbu.edu.hk/GEOG3610

Remote Sensing Data Center of the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt - (German Aerospace Center)
http://www.nz.dlr.de

National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center
http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/

ISPRS - International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
http://www.isprs.org/isprs.html

Open Source Remote Sensing Effort
http://www.remotesensing.org/

5.1.28 Regional Geology and Geoscience

Wie Entstand das Erzgebirge?
http://www.erzgebirge-total.de/infoent.html

Geology of Wales
http://www.visitwales.com/wales_the_nation/geography/geology_intro.html

IDNR/GSB-loess hills (Iowa, USA)
http://www.igsb.uiowa.edu/browse/loeshill/loeshill.htm

Kentucky University Weather and Climate Information
http://wwagwx.ca.uky.edu/drought.html

5.1.29 Cartography

The WWWVL Cartography Resources
http://geog.gmu.edu/projects/maps/cartogrefs.html

DICTIONARY OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS IN GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/abbrev.html

5.1.30 Recent Geology, Climate, Quaternary Science

ADVANCE-10k project
Analysis of Dendrochronological Variability and Natural Climates in Eurasia: The Last 10,000 Years
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/advance10k

The American Quaternary Association
http://iis1.srvr.nau.edu/amqua

DEUQUA - Deutsche Quartärvereinigung
http://www.deuqua.de/home.htm