Geology Videos, YouTube Videos & Live Streaming Video     ▼ LOAD LIVE TV  C-Japan  RT ND Bloomberg NASA TV HD    |    Intl Space Station HD  C5N  To search for YouTube videos in any YouTube player, mouseover the 'up arrow' in the lower right corner, and click on the menu icon above it. Results appear on this page. US Geological Survey Site Search: find this: Astronaut's Views of Earth "An Astronaut's View of the Home Planet". NASA Earth Observatory Explanations of what Earth science satellites do, images of Earth and 12 other types of Earth observational data, plus news and other articles and tutorials. Terra Satellite Photos Recent photos of Earth from the latest Earth resources satellite. Geoscience Map Server Get user customizable downloadable maps, and even upload your own data for mapping, from the Geoscience Information Systems Interactive Map Server, at the Cornell U. Inst. for the Study of the Continents. Earth Relief Maps Topographic relief maps, including a turning Earth globe, and sea floor and lake floor maps. Antarctica Radar Map A new high-resolution radar map of Antarctica. Vegetation Map Links Links to maps showing worldwide vegetation, including rainforests, other forests, and more. Live Seismic Info The Live Internet Seismic Server delivers real-time seismograms from 36 worldwide stations, updated every 30 minutes, along with statistics on the biggest quakes of the past 24 hours. Kamchatkan Experimental & Methodical Seismological Dept, Geophysical Service, Russian Academy of Science-- Kamchatka had 10 earthquakes over 4.5 on the Richter scale in 19 days from April-May 2007. Russian Academy of Science Institute of Volcanology and Seismology far eastern branch, Kamchatka. Recent California Earthquakes Information and links about recent earthquakes in California, right up to the past hour (and a link to info on quakes in Nevada).

See also: • Maps Search, News & Links • Weather Search, News & Links • Jewelry and Watch Shops Classic Gem Articles: • Rubies, Sapphires, Emeralds 1895 • Semi-Precious Stones 1896 • Gem Cutting & Polishing 1896 • Where Gems are Found 1904 Classic Diamond Articles: • On Diamond Cutting 1867 • De Beers Diamond Mine 1888 • Diamond Cutting Industry-Art 1895 • Cutting the Cullinan Diamond 1908   Geology News Tweets about "Geology news -RT"     World Wind from NASA's Ames Research Center is a freeware (totally free) 3-D virtual globe for your PC, using Landsat satellite imagery, Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, and USGS maps & aerial ortho photos (like Topozone & Terraserver). You can zoom the image in to any place on Earth from satellite altitude. World Wind 1.4 is a 16 MB freeware download. screenshots     To increase your enjoyment of World Wind, you can download the Landsat images and other data as large packages (e.g., Landsat 7 Level 0 is 359 megabytes), so that the data does not have to download (and you don't need to be online) while you are viewing. There are also over 120 free add-ons for World Wind, which let you do things like view Mars or the Earth's Moon, or track your position as read from your own PC-connected GPS receiver. Help with World Wind can be found at forum.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov.     Google Earth is a similar, but different, free program (which has upgraded versions you must pay for). Google Earth's user interface is more commercial, but it provides access to satellite photos of world cites that World Wind cannot show in detail. However, Google Earth does not show the USGS maps and aerial photos of US cites that World Wind displays.

San Andreas Fault
The Exporatorium's "Life Along the Faultline" explains why earthquakes occur, describes the great earthquake of 1906, tells about engineering structures to withstand earthquakes, and more.

Geologist's Field List "The Geologist's Lifetime Field List" is a list of "must see" locations, with links.

Virtual Geology Links to virtual geology field trips, from the U. of Houston.

Rock Microscopy Microscopy images of about 40 igneous and metamorphic rocks.

Opaque and Ore Minerals
The "Virtual Atlas of Opaque and Ore Minerals" is an online reference book: "This site provides over 400 full colour photomicrographs of the major ore-forming associations and opaque minerals in non-mineralized rocks. It describes typical examples of each material from many classical localities throughout the world", and more.

The Barren Lands Documents geologist J.B. Tyrrell's exploratory surveys in the 1890's of the Barren Lands region west of Hudson Bay, in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan and the area now known as Nunavut. It includes over 5,000 images from original field notebooks, correspondence, photographs, maps and published reports.


USGS Volcano Webcam Links

UND Volcano World A volcano megasite: 10, 000 pages of information, maps, movies, pictures and a glossary of volcanic terms.

Dartmouth Electronic Volcano
Information on all of the world's active volcanoes.

USGS Volcano Observatories:
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO)
Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO)
USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO)
Long Valley Observatory (LVO)

Geochemical Thermodynamics "Melts" is a geochemical thermodynamics modeler by Mark Ghiroso.

World Impact Craters This database from Natural Resources Canada lists 160 impact craters on Earth, with images of 66.

Snow and Ice Gallery The NSIDC Photo Gallery has 24 pictures of glaciers, satellite photos, and animations of sea ice movement at the poles.

Byrd Polar Center Information, polar links, and the "Ice Sheets" newsletter.

Geophysical Data Center The National Geophysical Data Center has a comprehensive website with information on glaciers, marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, and more.


Tsunami Information about "tidal waves" (a misnomer) from NOAA's Pacific Marine Environment Laboratory.

Oceanography Photo Library About a thousand images of oceanographic interest, from drawings of the gulf stream by Benjamin Franklin, to recent photos of deep-sea vent worms.

Ocean Temperature Maps Ocean temperature maps and movies from the Topex/Poseidon altimetry satellite, with El Nino data, and links.

Oceanography Satellites The Ocean Remote Sensing Group at Johns Hopkins U.'s Applied Physics Lab provides pictures and data from 3 satellites.

Lake Tahoe Bottom Sonar maps and animated sonar images of the bottom of Lake Tahoe, from the USGS.