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Prologue
Preface

The Introductory Geoscience Virtual Textbook
Christopher DiLeonardo
Foothill College
The Earth Discovery Project

Acknowledgements

Dedication


An Active Approach to Discovering the Dynamic Earth


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Chapter One
Geoscientists in Action


Scientists in Action!
United States Geological Survey
online publication
http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/booklets/scientists/index.html



Part One



Chapter Two
Chapter Two
Earthquakes


Earthquakes
Kaye M. Shedlock & Louis C. Pakiser

United States Geological Survey
online publications
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/earthq1/

The Severity of an Earthquake
United States Geological Survey
online publications
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/earthq4/severitygip.html

The San Andreas Fault

Sandra S. Schulz and Robert E. Wallace
United States Geological Survey
online publications

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/earthq3/index.html





Chapter Three
Chapter Three
Plate Tectonics


This Dynamic Earth:
The Story of Plate Tectonics

W. Jacquelyne Kious and Robert I. Tilling
United States Geological Survey
online publication
http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html






Chapter Four
Chapter Four
Volcanism


How Volcanoes Work
Vic Camp
San Diego State University
NASA/California State University
Project ALERT
http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/

Volcanoes

Robert I. Tilling
United States Geological Survey
online publication

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/volc

Eruptions of Hawaiian Volcanoes:
Past, Present, and Future

Robert I. Tilling, Christina Heliker, and
Thomas L. Wright
United States Geological Survey
online publication

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/hawaii/

Eruptions of Mount St. Helens:
Past, Present, and Future

Robert I. Tilling, Lyn Topinka, and Donald A. Swanson
United States Geological Survey
online publication

http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/msh/





Chapter Five
Chapter Five
Streams & Landform Evolution


Streamflow and Stream Processes
Fluvial Landscapes
The Drainage Basin Concept
Stream Morphometry
from: Fundamentals of Physical Geography
Michael Pidwirny
Okanogan University College

http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/chapter10.html







Chapter Six
Chapter Six
Environments of Climatic Extremes


Introduction to Glaciation
Glacial Processes
Landforms of Glaciation
from: Fundamentals of Physical Geography
Michael Pidwirny
Okanogan University College

http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/chapter10.html

Glaciers: Clues to Future Climate

Richard S. Williams, Jr.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/glaciers/
United States Geological Survey
online publication

Deserts: Geology and Resources
A. S. Walker
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/deserts/
United States Geological Survey
general interest publication (pdf)






Chapter Seven
Chapter Seven
Mountain Building


Mountain Building

from: Fundamentals of Physical Geography
Michael Pidwirny
Okanogan University College

http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/10k.html



Part II

Chapter Eight
Chapter Eight
Minerals, Matter & the Earth


Chemistry & Minerals

from: Geology (the Geosphere!)
Windows to the Universe
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/geology/
geology.html&edu=high

Minerals

from: Volcano World
University of North Dakota

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/minerals.html



Chapter 9
Chapter Nine
Crystalline Rocks


Igneous Rocks
David Jessey and Don Tarman
California State Polytechnic University, Pamona
California State University and NASA
 Project ALERT
http://geology.csupomona.edu/alert/igneous/ignrxs.htm

Metamorphic Rocks Tour
 Bruce Perry
California State Polytechnic University, Long Beach
http://seis.natsci.csulb.edu/bperry/metarock/HOMEPAGE.htm



Chapter 10
Chapter Ten
Sedimentary Rocks


Sedimentary Rocks Tour
 Bruce Perry
California State Polytechnic University, Long Beach
http://seis.natsci.csulb.edu/bperry/Sedimentary%20Rocks%20Tour/
sedimentary_rocks_tour_homepage.htm


Chapter Eleven
Chapter Eleven
Deformation and Earth Structures


Deformation of Rock
from The Earth And Beyond
Stephen A. Nelson
Tulane University
http://www.earthsci.org/teacher/basicgeol/deform/deform.html




Chapter Twelve
Chapter Twelve
Geologic Time


How Do Scientists Measure Earth Age?
Marsha Barber and Diana Schielde Bartos
Louisiana Energy & Environmental Resource & Information Center
Louisiana State University
http://www.leeric.lsu.edu/bgbb/1/measuring.html

Fossils, Rocks and Time
By Lucy E. Edwards and John Pojeta, Jr.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/fossils/
United States Geological Survey
online publication

Geologic Time
William L. Newman
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/
United States Geological Survey
online publication



Glossaries
Geologic Glossary
United States Geological Survey
http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/usgsnps/misc/glossaryAtoC.html
[Review this Resource]

Earthquake Image Glossary
United States Geological Survey
Earthquake Hazard Program
http://www.earthquake.usgs.gov/image_glossary/

Glossary of Volcanic Terms
United States Geological Survey
Volcano Hazard Program
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Products/Pglossary/pglossary.html
[Review this Resource]


Illustrated Glossary of Alpine Glaciation
Karen Lemke, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point and
Linda Freeman, College of the Siskiyous
http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/lemke/alpine_glacial_glossary/glossary.html
[Review this Resource]


Appendecies
APPENDIX I: Maps

Topographic Maps
United States Geological Survey
http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/booklets/symbols/index.html
[Review this Resource]


Geologic  Maps
United States Geological Survey
http://geology.wr.usgs.gov/docs/usgsnps/gmap/
[Review this Resource]


USGS Maps
United States Geological Survey
http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/booklets/usgsmaps/usgsmaps.html


APPENDIX II: Periodic Table

Periodic Table
Los Alamos National Laboratory's Chemistry Division
http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic/default.htm
[Review this Resource]



APPENDIX III: Unit Conversions

Unit Conversions
Digital Dutch
©1998-2004 Digital Dutch
http://www.digitaldutch.com/unitconverter/


APPENDIX IV: Geologic Time Scale

Web Geologic Time Machine
Robert Guralnick, Brian R. Speer and Allen Collins
University of California, Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.html
[Review this Resource]



APPENDIX V: Map Atlas

Jules Verne Voyager: Earth
UNAVCO Boulder, Colorado
http://jules.unavco.org/Voyager/Earth

The Map Machine
National Geographic Society
http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/


APPENDIX VI: Natural Disasters & Geologic Activity

Natural Disasters
NASA Earth Observatory
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/
[Review this Resource]

Earthquake Monitor
IRIS (Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology) Seismic Monitor
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/
[Review this Resource]

Bay Area Earthquakes
United States Geological Survey/University of California Berkeley
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/San_Francisco.htm
[Review this Resource]

Volcanic Activity
University of North Dakota's Volcano World
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vw.html


Global Volcanism
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
http://www.volcano.si.edu/gvp/index.cfm
[Review this Resource]




Index

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