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"Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man." |
- Orison Swett Marden - |
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| Course Materials: |
| Syllabus |
| Course Objectives |
| Textbook Website |
| Lecture information available by clicking the links below |
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| See below for links to outside resources |
| Animations require Flash Plugin to operate. |
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Geology Links |
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"Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details." |
- Herakleitos - |
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| Minerals |
| WebMineral |
| Mineral Information Institute |
| The Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom |
| Rocks |
| U.S.G.S. |
| Rock Hound |
| 42Explore |
| Rivers and Streams |
| MGBNet |
| U.S.G.S. |
| Plate Tectonics |
| U.S.G.S |
| University of California at Berkeley |
| Extreme Science |
| Drifting Continents |
| Earthquakes |
| U.S.G.S |
| Savage Earth |
| Tsunamis |
| Volcanoes |
| Volcanoworld |
| Global Volcanism Program |
| U.S.G.S |
| Cascades Volcano Observatory |
| Animations |
| Plate Boundary Animation |
| Tsunami Animation |
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"You do geology? Yeah, I do geology too. I see the rocks and I blow them up! There's your geology!" |
- from a conversation a geologist had with a road construction worker, July, 1999.- |
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Meteorology Links |
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"Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains." |
- Henry Ward Beecher - |
| The Atmosphere |
| NASA |
| Learner |
| National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| Severe Weather |
| FEMA - Storms |
| FEMA - Tornadoes |
| FEMA - Hurricanes |
| Severe Weather |
| National Hurricane Center |
| General |
| The Weather Channel |
| Intellicast |
| South New Jersey Weather |
| Animations |
| Earth-Sun Relationship Animation |
| El Nino and La Nina Animation |
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Oceanography Links |
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"Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen." |
- Stephen Wright - |
| Scripps Institute for Oceanography |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute |
| Ocean and Sea Maps |
| Sea Friends |
| National Oceanographic Data Center |
| Ocean Explorer |
