S339 – Understanding the Continents

Faults & Folds

• Fault plane Solutions
• Normal Faults
• Forces, Faults & Folds
• 3D GeoModeller
• Folding and faulting in the Earth’s crust
• Folds, Faults and Shear Zones
• Crustal Deformation Process: Folding and Faulting

GeoChemistry / Minerals / Rocks

• Geochemistry of Igneous Rocks
• Geochemistry of Rocks of the Oceans and Continents
• Atlas of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks, Minerals and Textures
• Mineral Structure Data
• Introduction to Crystallography and Mineral Crystal Systems
• Everything you ever wanted to know about granite

Earthquakes

• The USGS Earthquake Hazards Program
• The earthquake website of the British Geological Survey, UK
• The World-Wide Earthquake Locator
• Earthquake Data Center
• Southern California Earthquake Center
• Earth’s Interior & Plate Tectonics

Volcanoes

• The Global Volcanism Program
• World Organization of Volcano Observatories
• The United States Geological Survey Volcano Hazards Program
• VolcanoWorld

Topography

• Topography of the Earth

S339 Specific Blogs / Links

• S339 Blog and Summaries of Blocks

Relevant lecture notes from other universities

• University of Massachusetts
• Whitman College

Online Animations and Movies of Note

• Physical Geology (Plummer, McGeary, Carlson, 9th Edition)