Links archive
Note: The links in this section were working at the time of publication. Some of them are however rather shortlived, and may not be working any longer.
OUGS Mainland Europe Branch takes no responsibility for any goods or services advertised on other websites linked to this site (unless specifically stated)!
Your Planet Earth
For the teachers amongst our visitors, here you can find useful educational materials. For our younger visitors, a site to explore several aspects of Earth Science. Our link this month can be found at: www.earth4567.com
Earth Impact Database
For those interested in impacts, this Canadian site offers a variety of information concerning our 'visitors' from space
http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/index.html
ProGeo Hrvatska
This month's link is different. It is, in fact, a preview of a site, which is mostly in Croatian at present, with only limited English text. It will be translated into English soon. The reason for our including this as 'Link of the Month' is because it relates to an article from our newsletter concerning the new Geopark on Rab Island, Croatia, initiated by the people at ProGEO. The article can be found on our website under 'newsletter' and we hope you find it interesting enough to bookmark ProGEO for the future English version.
http://www.progeo-croatia.hr/hr/index.php
Submarine Volcanoes, Ridges, and Vents
Last month we went underground. This month we go underwater. Our link of the month provides information and many further links on submarine volcanoes.
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/SubmarineVolcano/framework.html
Again, apologies for the lack of a February link of the month. For March we go underground to explore the many types of caves.
http://www.showcaves.com/english/explain/./index.html
Lituya Bay
After a short break in December, due to circumstances beyond our control, we are back with our monthly link. Three years after the catastrophic Indian Ocean tsunami, a reminder that destructive waves can be initiated by other processes than displacement of the ocean floor.
http://www.drgeorgepc.com/Tsunami1958LituyaB.html
Athena Mineralogy
A link for those interested in minerals. The University of Geneva presents a wealth of information on its site, and not just about minerals.
http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/mineral/mineral.html
Out of this world
For all those interested in planetary geology, this site provides information and links:
http://www.geologyshop.co.uk/planet~1.htm
East African Rift Valley
Whilst surfing around I came across this site, which gives extensive information on the East African Rift Valley, rifting in general and tectonics, over a series of links. Lots to read and good photos.
Geyser Cinema
There has been much coverage of floods in the news recently and it was not just the UK. So this month we offer a link to something more pleasant and invite you to get into hot water by visiting the following link:
http://www.gigagraphica.com/geyser/index.html
Continental Flood Basalts
As OUGSME is planning a trip to the Deccan Traps, here is an opportunity to brush up on flood basalts.
Mount Etna
Enrico, from Sicily, contacted us. He is as big an Etna fan as OUGSME, but has the added advantage of living near the volcano. This is his site with up-to-date information:
http://www.volcanoetna.com/en/etna-volcanology/index.php
Ole's Blog
Now that Ole doesn't spend any more long hours making this site work, he shares his interests on his really great blog
http://my.opera.com/nielsol/blog/ (April 2007) The Lusi mud volcano in Eastern Java has been erupting since May 2006, burying villages, fields and factories. Specific information to Lusi can be found on internet, but this month's link provides more detailed information on the phenomenon: http://azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/ai112_folder/112_articles/112_mud_volcano.html
(February 2007) With 2007-2008 designated as International Polar Year, this link provides information on the British Antarctic Survey and its scientific work. To be found at: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/ (January 2007) With a host of geological treasures in Europe, this site gives information on some of the best places to visit:
Mud Volcanoes British Antarctic Survey World Heritage Sites
The Siberian Traps
(December 2006)
The Siberian Traps have been blamed for the the largest extinction of all time, with about 96 percent of all marine species and 70 percent of terrestrial vertebrate species becoming extinct. The Siberian Traps are the largest known continental flood basalt province (LIP).
Reasons enough to visit The Siberian Traps Home Page at http://www.le.ac.uk/gl/ads/SiberianTraps/Index.html.
This website provides plentiful information about the Siberian Traps and the contemporaneous end of Permian mass extinction (Is there a link?).
Sequence Stratigraphy
(October 2006)
The University of South Carolina has a website with an excellent introduction to sequence stratigraphy.
Sequence Stratigraphy is a model used to interpret the depositional origin of sedimentary strata and assumes, though this is not always stated, an implicit connection to base level change. Stratigraphic interpretations explain how sedimentary rocks acquire their layered character, lithology, texture, faunal associations and other properties.
Geosphere
(September 2006)
The Geological Society of America (GSA) has launched a new journal called Geosphere. The full text of all articles are available free until January 2007. (After then only the abstracts are available free).
See the August Number.
A journey into the crater of an active volcano
(July 2006)
Into the 'Mouth of Hell'
For 30 years, Sims and his friends John Catto and Dennis Jackson have climbed mountains, frozen waterfalls, and rock walls around the world for sport. In March 2006, with permission from Nicaraguan national park officials, they descended into a volcano for research.
Geoscience e-journals
So far 19 geoscience journals on line.
“Oceanus” - Oceanography
(May 2006)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has a very interesting site:
http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/index.do
where it brings research news and other articles (on oceanography).
Geomorphology
(March 2006)
Home Page of the British Geomorphological Research Group. The BGRG is the professional organisation for British geomorphologists and provides a community and services for those involved in teaching or research in geomorphology, both in the UK and overseas,
Year
of Planet Earth
(February 2006)
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2008 to be the
United Nations International Year of Planet Earth.
Earth Sciences for Society
- an International Year of Planet Earth.
Geology News
(January 2006)
Does what it tells. Geology News at topix.net is continually updated from thousands of sources around the net. (If you are in bird watching - or whatever - topix.net will have a news page [and forum] for that as well.)
Regional Geology Resources
(December 2005
Regional Geology Resources
Geology of the World
An Overview of the best Regional Geology Resources - Region by Region
Including:
Regional Geology
Resources in Europe
(A nice initiative! - The author will be pleased to know any important regional geology resources that you want to have added)
Tectonics,
Structural Geology and Geomorphology
(November 2005)
Active Tectonics, Quantitative Structural
Geology and Geomorphology
Active Tectonics, Quantitative Structural Geology and Geomorphology is a Research Group at Arizona State University. The Arizona State University Geological Department pages also include interesting geological information.
ISDR
(October 2005)
As mentioned in our Newsletter: OUGS Mainland Europe is sponsoring a website for the Institute for Sustainable Development and Research – India. This Indian NGO organises workshops on tsunami rehabilitation. After the Boxing Day Tsunami tragedy they felt that something serious should be done – and so do we.
Search
the Web – but how?
(September 2005)
Here is one of the sites where your webmaster gets inspiration for sites of the month!
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Open Directory (dmoz.org) is a good place to start searches, since you can continue the search on many different search engines without having to retype anything. The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. |
Have a try and use this metasearch box:
Or go directly to the Geology directory at http://dmoz.org/Science/Earth_Sciences/Geology/
Mineralogy
Club of Antwerp, Belgium
(August 2005)
The mineral collectors page from The Mineralogy Club of Antwerp, 'Mineralogische Kring Antwerpen', is a good starting point for exploring mineralogy on the internet. You will find information relevant to mineral collectors and lots of links to other mineralogy or earth science related sites.
Pegmatology
(July 2005)
Pegmatites International offers a good starting point for both general and advanced information on pegmatites. It's designed for the non-pegmatite specialist, the professional geologist and the beginning and graduate student.
Earth
Pages
(June 2005)
www.earth-pages.com is an internet resource centre for the earth sciences with links to relevant sites and portals.
It has a news section which is written by "our own" Dr Steve Drury of the Open University. Each month Steve Drury scans key scientific journals and picks out topics of particular interest to earth scientists and students alike.
Women
Oceanographers
(May 2005)
There is more to marine geology than tsunamis.
womenoceanographers.org
features the careers of remarkable women in oceanography.
Hot
Spots
(April 2005)
Do plumes exist?
The website http://www.mantleplumes.org/ discusses the origin of "hot spot" volcanism. (Ridge-transform intersections, Impacts, Plate tectonic processes, Reheated slabs, Lithospheric delamination, EDGE, Earth tessellation, Rifting decompression melting, ... ?)
Access to relevant scientific papers (full text!).
Shetland
Landscapes
(March 2005)
Adrian Hall of Fettes College, Edinburgh and Allen Fraser (OUGS member of the East of Scotland Branch) have an excellent and award-winning site on all aspects of Shetland landscapes, scenery and geology (geological evolution, geology, preglacial landscapes, glacial landscapes, periglacial landscapes, coastal landscapes, postglacial processes, climate, key sites and localities, geotours ...).
Nepal
- Geology and trekking
(February 2005 - By Elisabeth d'Eyrames)
Botanical treks & Excursion (Katmandu, Nepal).
This is the site of Bijaya Raj Devkota we met in Nepal last summer and who organised our trek in the Langtang area and Pokhara area . He was really good in taking us safely around the country he knows so well, adapting the journey to our wishes. He was so kind and understood really well our needs, we gave him a hard job especially because our team was mainly composed by women and teenagers and it was monsoon season.
I can warmly recommend him if someone wants to simply discover the beauty of the country or wants to climb up the roof of the world.
gives interesting information about the geology of Nepal. From this site we got in touch with Gyanendra Gurung who gave us plenty of interesting geological information about the areas we decided to trek.
Dinosaurs
and Turkey
(January 2005)
Dinosaurs
Because of its geological formations, the department Aude (France) is extremely rich in fossils, especially dinosaurs.
The Esperaza Dinosaur Museum in the French department Aude has a website about its collections and the local excavations in both French and English.
Turkey
The OUGSME Cappadocia
trip was booked through: www.alanturizm.com.tr
. The owner, Hallil, is a friendly and helpful person, who went out of his
way to arrange all our special requests. He has two hotels in Ürgüp,
one tourist class, one luxury, both very good. We can recommend this agency
for further trips.
Attila Ciner, our expert from Hacettepe University in Ankara, invited us to
one of the hotels in Ürgüp, run by his mother Kismet: (www.kayadam.com),
a delightful cave hotel with interesting geology in the bedrooms. Recently the
family added a second hotel: (www.villabacchus.com),
ideal for groups of up to eight people, and families
Iceland
(December 2004)
The Nordic Volcanological Center or in short NORDVULK has a very interesting site, not only on volcanic eruptions like the recent Grímsvötn eruption in November 2004, but also on other aspects of the geology of Iceland.
Paleontology
(November 2004)
All the links you could ever dream of (if you are interested in fossils anyway). Last time I visited CBEL.com (at http://www.cbel.com/paleontology/) they showed 1229 of the best Paleontology sites selected by humans - and the site is updated regularly, so it may be more today.
DIoGeneS
(October 2004)
DIoGeneS is an on line database of Digital Images of Geologic & nice Structures provided by the Geological Institute, ETH Zurich. It is indeed a nice collection of nice images of interesting geologic structures. The collection is growing, and YOU could contribute to the database if you have relevant digital images.
Alpine
Research
(September 2004)
The Earth Sciences Department at Lausanne University has links to a number of wonderful pages on the geology of the Western Alps presenting work undertaken by their different research groups. (Both Lausanne and the Western Alps are situated in Switzerland).
Portland
(August 2004)
Dr Ian West lead a field trip to the Isle of Portland on the Monday after the OUGS 32nd Annual Symposium in Dorset 9-11 July 2004. Here is a list of some of his impressive websites about the geology of Portland (and Dorset):
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/portnew.htm
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/portbill.htm
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/portmutton.htm
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/portbib.htm
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/portfoss.htm
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/chesil.htm
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/chespep.htm
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/chestorm.htm
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/cheslode.htm
A leaflet on Portland Geology & Landforms is available from Weymouth and Portland Borough Council. This leaflet has been written by John Chaffey, who by the way lead a field trip to Lulworth Cove on the Saturday during the OUGS Symposium.
See also our page on the Jurassic.
ABC
Dino - Downunder
(July 2004)
Chinese scientists have discovered the world's first fossilised embryonic pterosaur, the flying reptile that lived alongside the dinosaurs - you can read on ABC Online.
In this case ABC is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Other news on their online science section in June included: Fossils back dino extinction theory.
ABC has a free weekly email alert (Science Updates) about recent online science coverage (and of course their TV and radio science programs).
Metamorphic
Petrology
(June 2004)
Metamorphic Petrology Links
Annotated links to material about metamorphic rocks, migmatites and granitoid rocks, and related areas of "hard-rock" geology collected and regularly updated by Dave Waters - Lecturer in Metamorphic Petrology at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford.
Minerals
and rocks under the microscope
(May 2004)
http://users.skynet.be/jm-derochette/ is a site devoted to microscopic images of minerals, thin sections of rocks and meteorites and stereoscopy of minerals.
Volcanoes
page
(April 2004)
The Michigan Technological University Volcanoes Page provides information about volcanoes to the public and complements other informational sites on the web.
The page also covers volcanic hazards, remote sensing of volcanoes, links to items related to volcanoes, and not to forget volcanic humor.
Seismosurfing
(March 2004)
Seismosurfing the Internet for Earthquake DataProvided by The Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network
Web connections to original seismic data or seismic research information.
Life
on Mars?
(February 2004)
Bringing Mars search for Life down to Earth.
How did life on Earth start? This question is also relevant for our search for life on Mars (and other planets). International scientists look for answers in (world's northernmost) hot springs at Bockfjorden at Svalbard.
Here is a link to a project called the “Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition Project”
The Expedition has recently (January/February 2004) been featured by Norwegian media.
Virtual
Geology
(January 2004)
virtual-geology.info
This site includes virtual field trips, regional geology, images of geology and scenery from around the world, online learning materials for sedimentology, environmental geology and related topics, links, and more...
Of particular interest are the pages on The Volcanoes of the Eifel region, Germany.
"Vulkaneifel" is by the way a European Geopark, and if you can read German here is another URL worth visiting: http://www.vulkaneifel-european-geopark.de/index1.html.
Better still: go to the area yourself with OUGS Mainland Europe. A Field trip is scheduled for Saturday 31 July — Saturday 7 August.2004.
Web
Resources for Sedimentary Geologists
Web Resources for Sedimentary Geologists
This site contains a growing list of web sites of interest for sedimentary geologists with links to Professional Societies, Publications, Software, Research Pages, Other Sites, Sedimentary Geologists on the Web.
Mineralogical
Society of Great Britain & Ireland
(November 2003)
Offers free access for all until 31 December 2003 to the new online abstracts
service from the Mineralogical
Society of Great Britain & Ireland. This service provides a unique research
tool for those researchers working in the fields of mineralogy, crystallography,
geochemistry, petrology, environmental mineralogy and related topics. MINABS
Online is the electronic version of Mineralogical Abstracts
and will replace the paper journal from the beginning of 2004. The e-journal
is edited by Prof. R.A. Howie and Dr J.G. MacDonald.
Geologia
Croatica
(October 2003)
Geologia
Croatica
is a scientific journal of the Institute of Geology Zagreb and the Croatian Geological Society, dealing with all aspects of Earth sciences. It is published bi-annually in English.
It deserves a special mention, because it puts its full articles on line -
in 
pdf-format for free.
The on line publication is more than a year behind the paper version, which
I find reasonable for such an excellent free service.
Croatia was venue of the 22nd IAS Meeting of Sedimentology in September 2003. Volume 56/1 contains papers based on some of the presentations prepared for that meeting.
Field
Trip Guides
(August 2003)
Field
trip guides on line exist, and here is one of the best that I’ve
ever seen.
Staithes
– Middle Lias Ironstones and Shales – Geology of Part of the
Yorkshire Coast.
In fact I went straight to Staithes at my first possible opportunity!
There are of course links to other similar guides.
Visit also our page on the Jurassic.
Mineralogy
Database
(July 2003)
All you ever wanted to know about any mineral! A real must in fact.
This mineral database contains 4281 individual species discriptions with links.
Water
(June 2003)
We are all dependent on water and 2 billion people are dying for it. 2003 is the year of new initiatives, projects, efforts and commitments to do something about it.
2003 is the International Year of Freshwater.
Every 5 June since 1972, we celebrate World Environment Day. This year (2003) the theme was water.
17 June 2003 is the 9th World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.
The official site of the International Year of Freshwater 2003 is found at http://www.wateryear2003.org/ and is splashing with water links.
Are we doing enough? Have your say in the BBC Water Debate at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/world/2003/world_forum/water/default.stm and follow the links.
Geotope
Conservation
(May 2003)
Many OUGS members are active in the conservation of the Geological Heritage in Great Britain or Ireland. For us who live on the continent, such work seems less obvious.
ProGEO, The European Association for the Conservation of the Geological Heritage, is an association in some ways similar to OUGSME.
The good news is, that all editions of ProGEO News from 1996 onwards are available on line (HTML) for everybody to read - and they make very interesting reading.
EuroGeoSurveys
(April 2003)
The Association of the Geological Surveys of the European Union
The site of EuroGeoSurveys not only has the obvious links to the national Geological Survey organisations (GSOs like The British Geological Survey) of all fifteen member states of the European Union plus Iceland, Norway and Switzerland but also a lot of European geodata.
Duke's
Labs
(March 2003)
Duke's Labs: lots of on-line freebies including a complete geological
guide to New York. The first part deals with basic
concepts, e.g. fault surfaces, and progresses onto the geology visible in
New York to the pedestrian.
http://www.dukelabs.com
Tektites
and Impact Craters
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Links
for Mineralogists
Institute of Mineralogy, University of Würzburg, has collected an amazing amount of "annotated links to internet resources, especially for mineralogists, petrologists, crystallographers, geologists".
Periodic
Table
The following is a list of sites with specific information on the Periodic Table and the properties of elements:
An Earth Scientist's Periodic Table of the Elements and Their Ions. "There is now a periodic table designed specifically for the earth sciences. Its main difference from the conventional periodic table presented by chemists is that it locates elements according their occurrence as ions in nature, rather than according to the configuration of their outer-shell electrons in their elemental states (which are commonly geochemically irrelevant). Another major difference is that, because elements are located in the table according their occurrence as ions, some elements (e.g. S) appear more than one place in the table. It shows the symbol, name, atomic number, atomic weight, common valence states and corresponding ionic radii, stable isotopes, and decay paths for each element. It also uses symbols to indicate atmospheric elemental abundance, seawater elemental abundance, elements commonly concentrated in soils and residual sediments, elements concentrated in deep-sea ferromanganese nodules, elements that enter earlyforming phases in igneous rocks, large-ion lithophile elements in igneous petrology, elements that occur as native metals, and elements that can be limiting nutrients on land and in the oceans. It uses contours to indicate trends in ionic potential or charge density. Sizes of chemical symbols indicate the relative abundance of elements in the earth's crust, and an accompanying diagram graphically shows the cosmic and crustal abundances of the elements. Four pages of notes and references accompany the table."
It all makes for a very colourful chart, the interpreting of which could take some time... Bruce Railsback is the author of this invention.
http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/PT.html
Webelements™ Periodic Table (Professional Edition):
The hazardous chemical database from the University of Akron:
http://ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/erd/
The mass spectrometry reference sources site, with a lot of links to related sites:
http://www.sisweb.com/mslinks.htm
Table of nuclides:
http://sutekh.nd.rl.ac.uk/CoN/index.html
Natural
Hazards
NASA satellite imagery to better understand the causes and effects of natural
hazards can be found at NASA's Earth Observatory pages on Natural
Hazards
Read their article on the latest Eruption
of Sicily’s Mt. Etna and see the latest NASA satellite images.
Again the question arises: "Is Etna gradually shifting from being a
“hot spot” volcano to an “island arc” or "subduction
zone" volcano?"
See also our Etna Update.
Say
it with pictures
In geology a picture is often worth a thousand words. Have a look at photos from Europe, with special chapters on Alps and various places in Poland. How about ophicalcite in the Alps? or just enjoy the scenery.
Photo-Geo-Gallery of Jozef Wiczorek.
Granite
Dartmoor, Egypt or Texas? - It all comes together on
But The Pink Granite Coast is still found in Mainland Europe (on a OUGS Mainland Europe page!).
A
geologist's lifetime field list
Don't pass away before you have seen these sites!
http://www.uc.edu/geology/geologylist
Geology
in the News
Many journals, like Science and Nature, make their pages accessible only to people who have paid a subscibtion to the written version.
Geology in the News - run by the University of California Davis Department of Geology - brings a selection of (links to) stories from newspapers and news sites accessible for everyone.
Impacts
Impact on Dinosaurs
According to an article in Science (vol. 296, p. 1305) the impact of an asteroid or comet may have cleared the way for giant dinosaurs to adapt and flourish.
New Scientist - Newsflash: http://www.prq0.com/apps/redir.asp?link=XbdeaeafBH,ZbjhdjfbeiEH&oid=UcjjbCB
BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1991000/1991444.stm
Nature News Service: http://www.nature.com/nsu/020513/020513-11.html
Science Daily Magazine: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/05/020517080716.htm
Rutgers University: http://ur.rutgers.edu/medrel/viewArticle.phtml?ArticleID=2396
Another impact may be responsible for their extinction as told in our article Denmark, Dinosaurs & Death
ETNA
In spite of being one of the most studied and recorded volcanoes on Earth, the tectonic setting of Etna is enigmatic. In some ways it behaves like a hot-spot volcano, and in others like island-arc volcanoes. Studies of trace elements in historical lavas (from half a million years to the present) by Professor Schiano and colleagues from Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, indicate that it may be becoming more like the latter.
The BBC website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_15150000/1515619.stm, based on a topical article in Nature (VOL 412 of 30 August 2001), gives more detail.
Note: Boris Behnke, our Etna leader, has a discussion on the Nature article on his website: http://www.geo.mtu.edu/~boris/ETNA_2001.html
See also our Etna field trip report
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