Planet Earth (Geol V1053y)

Links to Related Web Sites

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• Where did all that Ocean come from?
  • The Venus Hypermap: "an effort to make ....data from the Magellan mission available in an intuitive and informative way."
  • The Nine Planets: "a multimedia tour of the solar system."
• History of Geology under the Sea
  • R/V Ewing: Columbia University's Research Vessel
  • Other research vessels: Web sites for American and foreign research vessels
  • Methods and Equipment used by Marine Geologists prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey, Marine Geology branch. Includes descriptions and photos of many tools and techniques for learning about the ocean floor.
  • Ocean Drilling Program: home page for an international program of scientific drilling in the deep sea.
  • Alvin and ROV's: home page for the DeepSubmergence Group at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. They operate Alvin and several unmanned deep submergence vehicles.
• Continental Drift
  • Alfred Wegener Institute: home page of a research institution, located in Bremerhaven, Germany, named after the father of continental drift.
• Plate Tectonics
  • National Earthquake Information Center: earthquake information for the public, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, includes readable tutorials on plate tectonics and other earthquake related topics.
• Subduction Zones
  • Volcano World: A well-done site designed for the public, includes a clickable map of what's erupting now. In the context of subduction zones, check out Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Rainer.
  • Alaska Volcano Observatory: home page of the Alaska Volcano Observatory, serving a variety of frequently-updated information about volcanoes along the Pacific/North American subduction plate boundary.
  • Michigan Technical University's Volcanoes Pages: Another site intended for the public, includes information on volcanic hazard mitigation, remote sensing of volcanoes, and reports of active eruptions.
• The Oceanic Lithosphere; Ophiolites
  • Semail Ophiolite: satellite images, maps, and photographs of the well preserved ophiolite in Oman, from NASA's "Geomorphology from Space" on line textbook.
• The Ridge Axis and Magma Chambers
  • RIDGE Multibeam Synthesis: a treasure trove of multibeam bathymetric maps from ridge axes around the world.
• Black Smokers and Fantastic Organisms
  • NOAA VENTS Program: National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's program to study the biology, geology, physical oceanography, and acoustics of hydrothermal vents.
• Metal Deposits and Marine Geology
• The Interchange between ocean and crust
• Marine Stratigraphy and Sedimentation
• Continental Formation and Deformation
• Rifting of Continents, Oil and Gas
  • GLORIA data from U.S. Atlantic Continental Margin: side looking sonar data covering the U.S. Atlantic continental margin, a classic example of a "passive margin" formed by continental rifting.
  • 3-D images of bathymetry from U.S. continental margins: check out figure "A" from the U.S. Atlantic coast, a classic example of a "passive margin" formed by continental rifting.
  • Global Basins Research Network: A research project, co-ordinated by Professor Anderson, aimed at understanding the flow of fluids (including hydrocarbons), in a portion of the Gulf of Mexico.
• The Driving Force of the Lithospheric Plates

Check out the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Web Site.

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