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Key Earth Science Links

Alphabetical Listing of Topic Links

Choose a topic from the list below. For each topic, the best key links were chosen by our educational staff. Each of the key links is annotated to provide you with a quick summary of the types of information or activities that can be found at the link, to aid you in your search for information.

• Age Dating
• Air Photos and Images from Space
• Atmosphere
• Biological and Paleontological Classification of Life
• Carbon Cycle
• Carbon storage (sequestration)
• Caves (Speleology)
• Coal
• Continental Drift
• Dinosaurs
• Dinosaur Extinction
• Earth History
• Earthquakes
• Earthquake--Fault Types and Models
• Earthquakes--New Madrid
• Electricity
• Energy and Fuels
• Environmental Science where you live
• Evolution
• Evolution-Hominids
• Fossils
• Fossils: How they form
• General Science
• Geologic Time Scales
• Geology of U.S. States (and some foreign countries), links to state geological surveys, AASG site
• Geomorphology
• Global Climate Change
• Groundwater, Porosity, and Permeability
• Landscapes
• Maps (Topographic and Geologic)
• Mass Extinctions
• Meteor Impact Sites
• Natural Hazards
• Oceanography
• Oil and Natural Gas
• Phylogenetic Systematics
• Plate tectonics
• Plate Tectonic Motion Calculators
  
• Remote Sensing and Satellite Images
• Rocks and Minerals
• Soils
• Solar energy
• Solar system
• Space Science
• Speleology (Caves)
• Tectonic Plates Through Time
• Time Lines (Time Scales)
• Topography and Elevation (highest points)
• Volcanoes
• Water Cycle
• Weather

 

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Acknowledgments

We thank the people who took the time to provide or screen links, write annotations, and prepare information for this section including, Stephen F. Greb, Donald R. Chesnut Jr., Tammi Johnson, Brandon C. Nuttall, Bart Davidson, Kevin Wente, Stephen O. Moshier, David Harris, Cortland F. Eble, Anna E. Watson, Douglas R. Graham, and James C. Currens.