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- American Geological Institute (AGIWEB)
- Australian Geological Survey
- British Geological Survey - They provide a Lexicon of Named Rock Units.
- Canadian Landscapes - Collection of photos of Canadian landscapes and landforms. Brief geological explanations provide insight on how the features developed. The photos were taken by scientists of the Geological Survey of Canada during the last 30 years and are browsable by province. There are 97 images of Nova Scotia, for example, with some spectacular Cape Breton Island views.
- Canadian National Earthquake Hazards Program (NEHP) - Provides information on "significant earthquakes in/near Canada" and a list of Recent Canadian Earthquake Activity in the past month.
- Cascades Volcano Observatory - Provides a Volcano Observatory Webserver Index which gives information about volcanoes around the world; U.S. Geological Survey, Vancouver, Washington.
- CIESIN Home Page - Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network.
- Cornell's Digital Earth - "Allows users to view and print out maps showing major geographic features of a region, along with such information as the location of earthquake faults, a record of earthquake occurrences and technical data about the events."
- Earthquake Information: Reducing Earthquake Hazards - U. S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California.
- Earthquake Research Institute - University of Tokyo server provides a page on Current Eruptions in Japan.
- l'École des Mines de Paris - Created by Louis XVI, the school is located in Paris at the Hôtel de Vendôme, with divisions in Evry, Fontainebleau and Sophia Antipolis. Site highlights include the Museum of Mineralogy where you can view mineral collections organized by mineral, by country, and by quality of samples. Access to the library catalog is also provided.
- Electronic Volcano - Maintained by Richard E. Stoiber, Barbara DeFelice and D. Randall Spydell
- Gems and Precious Stones - Syllabus, course materials and resources prepared by Jill Banfield, a member of the Geology and Geophysics Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- GEO-Data Explorer - US Geological Survey's Java-based interface designed to allow access to spatial databases over the internet.
- Geologic Hazards - Information on geomagnetism, landslides, earthquakes and volcanoes from the U.S. Geological Survey.
- Geological Society of America - With site map and searchable archives for Geology, GSA Bulletin, and GSA Today.
- Geological Society (UK)
- Geological Survey - Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
- Geological Survey of Canada - With links to Data Centres and Libraries.
- Geologist's Lifetime Field List - Terry Acomb, a geology student at the University of Cincinnati, has put together a "list of essential or desirable locations for geologists or travelers to visit", accompanied by links providing additional information.
- Geology of Lehigh and Northampton Counties, Pennsylvania: Historical Works
- Geology of the Wessex Coast, Southern England - Ian West, Department of Geology, University of Southampton.
- Geotimes - Published by the American Geological Institute, there is an archives with links to stories by topic, date, story, section or issue.
- Global Volcanism Program - National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
- Harvard Seismology
- Illinois State Geological Survey
- International Colored Gemstone Association
- IRIS Consortium - "University research consortium dedicated to exploring the Earth's interior through the collection and distribution of seismographic data."
- Links to Great Earth-Science Resources - Eric Fookes and Christophe Nussbaumer, Institute of Earth Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland.
- Learning Web of the U.S. Geological Survey
- Links for Mineralogists - Compiled and maintained by Klaus-Peter Kelber, Mineralogisches Institut, Universität Würzburg.
- Mineral Collecting - Chris Leger, the Mining Company.
- Mineral Gallery - Amethyst Galleries' searchable collection of mineral descriptions, images, and specimens, listed by name, class, and group, including birthstones and gemstones.
- Mining History Network - Roger Burt
- MTU Volcanoes Page - Michigan Technological University volcanolgy site offers news of recent activity, images, maps, history, glossary, and links to other resources.
- National Archive of Geological Photographs - British Geological Survey image database contains some 6,400 digital images.
- National Earthquake Information Center - U.S. Geological Survey. Has Bulletin with information on recent earthquakes.
- National Geophysical Data Center - "Manages environmental data in the fields of marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, solar-terrestrial physics, solid earth geophysics, and glaciology (snow and ice)."
- National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering - University of California, Berkeley the Center has an Earthquake Image Information System (EqIIS) which includes almost 8,000 images from more than 80 earthquakes.
- National Park Service - Park Geology - With site map and Park Geology Tour of parks, organized by type (Basin and Range, Hot Springs, Fossils etc.)
- Nevada Mining Association
- Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) - Ewa Beach, Hawai`i. See also International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning Center in the Pacific
- Paleomap Project - Illustrates "the plate tectonic development of the ocean basins and continents, as well as the changing distribution of land and sea during the past 1100 million years."
- Penn State University Digital Library Collections - Contains a Pennsyvania Geology Collection.
- Special report on the petroleum of Pennsylvania: its production, transportation, manufacture and statistics (1874)
- Rainbow of Gems - Information and images of over 150 minerals and gems. Part of the larger Gemology & Lapidary Pages.
- ScienceDaily - Other science news can be found at Science News Online, Eurekalert, Scientific American, News@Nature.com and Why Files.
- Seismo-surfing the Internet - Stephen D. Malone, a professor in the Geophysics Department at the University of Washington, has compiled a collection of links to earthquake data.
- Seismo-Watch - Advanced Geologic Exploration
- Southern Arizona Seismic Observatory
- University of California, Berkeley, Earth Sciences & Map Library
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Tapestry of Time and Terrain: The Union of Two Maps - Geography and Topography - U.S. Geological Survey.
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center - With Recent Earthquakes Bulletins
- Virtual Museum of Quebec Minerals -Part of Canada's Digital Collections, there is a Database of the collection, with images, browsable by crystal, chemical, gravity, color, species or catalog.
- Volcano Hazards Program - United States Geological Survey
- VolcanoWorld - University of North Dakota. Provides information on Current Volcanic Activity
, Images of Volcanoes by Region and a VolcanoWorld Index.
- This Dynamic Earth: the Story of Plate Techtonics - Online edition of the 1996 book by W. Jacquelyne Kious and Robert I. Tilling is provided by the U.S. Geological Survey.
- Water Resources of the United States - U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
- West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning Center - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- World Bank Group: Mining