The Old Faithful Area Online Tour part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This Yellowstone National Park website offers an online tour of the Old Faithful area, also known as the Upper Geyser Basin. Prominent geysers and hot springs are highlighted with photos and ...

Mammoth Hot Springs Online Tour part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This Yellowstone National Park website offers an online tour of the Mammoth Hot Springs. Prominent hot springs and terraces are highlighted with photos and information concerning their cycles of ...

Touring Colorado Geology: Kenosha Pass to Fairplay, CO part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Ghist John
This site is an illustrated field guide that explains the geology of Colorado. A series of landscape and outcrop photographs with descriptions for each photo are provided. Outcrop photos of the ...

Colorado Plateau Mosaic part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Baker Victor
This is a section from the 1986 NASA publication "Geomorphology from Space." The section provides a detail discussion of the geomorphic features of the northern Colorado ...

Recent Alluvial History of the Southern Colorado Plateau part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Hereford Richard
Part of the USGS Southwest Climate Impacts Project, this site covers the recent alluvial history of the southern Colorado Plateau. Topics included are the historic-age alluvial geomorphology and the ...

The Geologic Story of the Great Plains part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Donald E. Trimble
This site provides a non-technical description of the origin and evolution of the landscape of the Great Plains physiographic province. Information about the history and descriptions of the various ...

Antarctic Sea Ice Processes and Climate part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Antarctic Sea Ice Processes and Climate
This site features multi-disciplinary research about Antarctic sea ice. This research seeks to understand the role of Antarctic sea ice in the coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean system, and also to produce ...

Postglacial Flooding of the Bering Land Bridge: A Geospatial Animation part of SERC Web Resource Collection

William Manley
This resource features an animation that illustrates the flooding of the Bering Land Bridge over the last 20,000 years. The site also includes a link to an overview about the land bridge, as well as ...

Angle of Repose part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Carla Whittington, Eric M. D. Baer
In this activity, students explore how different sediment properties influence slope stability. They make piles of sediments with varied grain size, angularity, and water content and measure the ...

Vectors and slope stability part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Eric M. D. Baer
This activity is designed to teach students with little or no experience with vectors, free-body diagrams, or the like to apply vectors to slope stability problems. Students first learn the basic ...