 Plate boundaries |
United States Geological Service |
| Recent earthquakes |
United States Geological Service |
| Historical ruptures in western U.S. |
United States Geological Service |
| Ages of the ocean floor |
| Plate motion calculator |
Compute relative velocity at any point on Earth, based on your own pole or NUVEL1A (Utrecht University, Netherlands) |
| MSC |
Messinian Salinity Crisis of the Mediterranean area |
| One Geology |
Mapping the geology of planet Earth on the occasion of the International Year of Planet Earth |
| Plate tectonics |
A classical introduction to plate tectonics and the main observations in support of it. |
| Various
animations |
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| This
dynamic Earth |
The story of plate tectonics (USGS) |
| Geophysical
datasets |
University of Southhampton links |
| Geoid |
Color images of the geoid, gravity anomalies, deflection of the vertical and topography/bathymetry |
| GEBCO |
One minute grid global bathymetry data |
| Paleomagnetism and
plate tectonics tools |
On-line data and software tools from Instituto Tecnico Industriale "E. Molinari" in Milano. |
| World Stress Map |
Data base on contemporary tectonic stress in the Earth's crust |
| Earth Byte |
Linking observations to kinematic and dynamic models |
| Ocean
agegrid |
Isochrons of the world's ocean floor, images and digital data |
| Geological Time Scale |
Chronology of how the Earth has changed since 4.5 billion years ago (UCMP) |
| ODP |
The Ocean Drilling Program home page |
| CRUST 2.0 |
Global 2x2 degree model for thickness of the crust |
| RIDGE |
Ridge Inter- Disciplinary Global Experiments: interdisciplinary study of mid-oceanic ridge processes |
| CDDIS |
NASA's archive of space geodesy data |
| EGM96 |
Spherical harmonic model of the Earth's gravitational potential to degree and order 360 |
| ODSN
tool |
Make your own plate tectonic reconstruction for any moment in the last 150 million years |
| Global Earth
history |
Plate tectonic reconstruction images throughout the Phanerozoic (Ron Blakey) |
| Global Change |
Global change Master Directory (NASA) |
| The nine planets |
Multimedia tour of the Solar System (Bill Arnett) |
| Views of the
Solar System |
Multimedia tour of the Solar System (Calvin J. Hamilton) |
| Earth
Rotation |
A brief overview of the wobbly nature of Earth's rotation (Rick Fisher) |
| Plate
kinematics |
NUVEL plate motion models |
| Velocity of
any site |
NUVEL1A-NNR Plate motion calculator (Unavco) |
| Bodemdaling en Aardbevingen |
Informatie voor iedereen die meer wil weten over bodembewegingen in Nederland en de gevolgen ervan. |
| Recent Earthquakes |
USGS worldwide |
| Volcanoes Online |
Active volcanoes, general information on volcano types, where and why of volcanoes. In various languages, including Dutch. Games and kid's corner. |
| Volcano World |
The other popular volcano site. Has similar fringes as Volcanoes Online. |
| Earthquakes |
Recent earthquakes in Europe and Worldwide (EMSC) |
| Geo-hazards supersites |
Materials contributed by researchers on a variety of geohazards |
| Seismicity
monitor |
Recent earthquake locations around the world (IRIS) |
| Earthquakes |
Everything you may wish to know about earthquakes (USGS) |
| Tsunami's |
The reference for seismic sea waves |
| CMT |
Focal mechanisms (Harvard) |
| ISC |
International Seismological Centre home page |
| SCEC |
Southern California Earthquake Center: data and maps |
| Caltech tectonics observatory |
Includes slip maps for major earthquakes |
| Global warming |
Mechanisms of global warming, effects of global warming and policy related issues (United States Environmental Protection Agency -EPA). |
| Climate over oceans |
Process-oriented research using Earth Observing System (EOS=satellite) data. |
| Carbon dioxide |
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center home page. |
| JPL Image archive |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory pictures archive |
| NASA - EOS |
United States Space Agency - Earth Observing System web site |
| Maps and mapping |
Cartography, maps and mapping (Oddens, Geography at Utrecht University, Netherlands) |
| Geomorphology
from space |
Gallery of space imagery consisting of 237 plates plus supplements |
| Radar Images |
Radar images from all over the world (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) |
| Hubble Space Telescope |
HST and Next Generation Space Telescope web site |
| Constants and Equations |
Compilation of physical and chemical constants and equations |
| Geographic coordinates |
Convert geographical coordinates: decimal - degrees/minutes/seconds |
| VMSG |
Vening Meinesz Research School of Geodynamics |
| ISES |
Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science |
| NSG |
Netherlands Research School of Sedimentary Geology |
| Delft University of Technology |
Applied Geophysics & Petrophysics |
| Delft University of Technology |
Department of Earth Observation & Space systems |
| NEESDI |
The Netherlands Environmental Earth System Dynamics Initiative |
| NITG/TNO |
Netherlands Institute of Applied Geoscience TNO - National Geological Survey |
| NWO |
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research |
| SAMO |
School for Atmospheric and Oceanographic Research |
| IMAU |
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht |
| ORFEUS |
Observatories and Research Facilities for EUropean Seismology |
| KNAW |
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Colleges and
Universities |
An extensive list of links |
| PSU geodynamics |
The Pennsylvania State University - Geodynamics |
| UCSC Earth Sciences |
University of California at Santa Cruz - Earth Sciences |
| WHOI |
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| MARGINS |
NSF "MARGINS" program on continental margins |
| EarthScope |
NSF "EarthScope" initiative |
| GEODYSSEA |
Geodynamics of South and South-East Asia from space geodesy |
| NOAA/NGDC/WDC |
U.S. Marine Geology and Geophysics data centers |
| NCAR |
U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research - digital media catalog |
| ILP |
International Lithosphere Programme |
| EuroProbe |
Large European Science projects |
| EGU |
European Geosciences Union |
| ESF |
European Science Foundation |
| European Union |
Community Research and Development Information Service |
| NATO |
NATO scientific affairs |
| AGU |
American Geophysical Union |
| GSA |
Geological Society of America |
| IASPEI |
International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior |
| USGS |
United States Geological Survey |
| NASA |
Goddard Space Flight Center |
| IUGG |
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics |
 EGU 2011 |
3 - 8 April 2011; Vienna, Austria |
| 12th International workshop on modeling of mantle convection and lithosphere dynamics |
20-25 August 2011; Gross Dölln, Germany |
| AGU Fall Meeting 2011 |
5 - 9 December 2011; San Francisco, California, United States |
| International conference of the Geology of the Arabian Plate and the Oman Mountains |
7 - 09 January 2012; Muscat, Oman |
| 34th International Geological Congress |
5-15 August 2012; Brisbane, Australia |
| AGU Fall Meeting 2012 |
10 - 14 December 2012; San Francisco, California, United States |
| Calendar |
Conferences and Meetings in Geophysics and Geology |
| Freeman |
Elsevier Science |
Thomson |
| McGraw-Hill |
Prentice-Hall |
Blackwell |
| Dover |
Cambridge University Press |
Springer (Kluwer) |
| Princeton University Press |
Oxford University Press (Clarendon) |
| GMT |
The Generic Mapping Tools |
| GMT examples |
|
| Google Earth |
Earth imagery and geographic information |
| dx open source |
Data Explorer |
| Internet
Finite Element resources |
Comprehensive list |
| Gmsh |
Meshing tool for academic problems |
| PETSc |
A suite of data structures and routines for the scalable (parallel) solution of scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations. It employs the MPI standard for all message-passing communication. |
| SHTOOLS |
Tools for working with spherical harmonics |
| Scientific writing guide (Govers) |
| Online English writing Lab (Purdue) |
| Guide to English grammar and writing (Capital Community College) |
| Writing center (South Dakota State University) |
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