Geology Web Links 

REFERENCE SITES

• Earthquake safety and preparedness -- U.S. Geological Survey
• Most recent California earthquakes -- U.S. Geological Survey
  
• Notes on Geologic Time -- presented by UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
  
• Glossary of Volcanological Terms  (USGS)
• Periodic Table of Elements -- Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Images of Ocean Floor -- UC San Diego
• Age of Oceanic Crust
  
• Pacific Plate Motions -- created by Tanya Atwater at UC Santa Barbara
• Talk.origins Archive site -- Responses to Creationism and misconceptions about geologic time and evolution from the Usenet newsgroup Talk.origins.

GEOLOGY TEXTBOOK PUBLISHER SUPPORT SITES

• McGraw-Hill Publishing/Physical Geology by Plummer, McGeary, and Carlson
• Prentice Hall Publishing/Earth by Tarbuck and Lutgens
• Prentice Hall Publishing/Earth Science by Tarbuck and Lutgens
• Prentice Hall Publishing/Exploring Earth by Davidson, Reed, Davis
• Brooks/Cole Publishing Earth Science Resources
• W. H. Freeman publishing company/Earth System History by Steven Stanley
• Tom Garrison's Oceanography, 5th edition

CURRENT EVENTS 

• Hydrothermal vents found at bottom of Atlantic (NSF report, Dec. 2000)


• Long Valley Caldera (USGS) 


• Yucca Mountain Project (DOE)

ONLINE MAGAZINES

• American Scientist
• Scientific American

CAREERS IN GEOLOGY 

• Bureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational Outlook Handbook
• American Geological Institute Career Information
• American Geophysical Union Career Information

CALIFORNIA GEOLOGY 

• Bay Area Earthquake Hazards (Association of Bay Area Governments) 
• Bay Area Landslide Hazards (USGS)
  
• California Geological Survey
  
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute 
• Volcanological Society of Sacramento (VSSAC) 
• Geology of Mt. Diablo (Mt. Diablo Interpretive Association)

GENERAL INTEREST & ORGANIZATION SITES 

• Geologists speaking in Northern California 
• American Geological Institute 
• Geological Society of America 
• National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) 
• National Earth Science Teachers Association 
• National Center for Science Education -- organization dedicated to keeping evolution in the science classroom.
• U.S. Geological Survey 

GEOSCIENCE DEPARTMENTS AT AREA COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES 

• California College Articulation -- "Assist" database; statewide student transfer information for California
• University of California at Berkeley -- Department of Earth and Planetary Science
• University of California at Davis 
• University of the Pacific, Stockton, California 
• California State University, Chico 
• California State University, Hayward 
• California State University, Humboldt 
• California State University, Sacramento 
• California State University, San Francisco -- Department of Geosciences -- Geology, Oceanography, Meteorology
• California State University, San Jose 
• University of California, Santa Barbara 
• University of California, Santa Cruz -- Department of Earth Sciences
• California State University, Sonoma 
• Stanford University Earth Sciences 
• California State University, Stanislaus 

MISCELLANEOUS

• Earthquake Art -- from the 2001 Seattle earthquake