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Earth Science Modules from the Concord Consortium part of Web Resource Collection

These free online curriculum lessons were developed for five days of classroom instruction and include one or more Earth systems models plus assessment items. Topics include plate tectonics, ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Human Population, Energy, Air Quality, Water Quality and Quantity, Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Earthquakes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Air quality, Environmental Science, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science, Environmental Science:Sustainability, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Meteorology:Extreme weather, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Course Module

Rogers Atlas of Rocks in Thin Section part of Web Resource Collection

This site comprises more than 100 images of whole petrographic thin sections, mostly in paired plane- and polarized-light views. Images are hosted at gigapan.com, and most are >20,000 ...
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Mineralogy, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Mineralogy:Optical Mineralogy, Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Collections, Audio/Visual, Datasets and Tools

Red Rocks 'Virtual Field Trip' - Karijini Gorge, Oak Creek Canyon, and Mars part of Web Resource Collection

On this virtual field trip, students can explore Karijini Gorge in Australia and Oak Creek Canyon in Sedona, AZ, searching for clues to the environments that formed the red rocks there. Observe these ...
Subject: Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science, Geology:Sedimentary Geology, Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science:Mars
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip

Virtual Microscope for Earth Sciences part of Web Resource Collection

The Virtual Microscope was developed for undergraduate teaching of petrology and geoscience at the Open University in the United Kingdom, allowing students to explore rock hand specimens and thin ...
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Metamorphic Rocks, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Igneous Rocks, Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science, Geology:Mineralogy:Optical Mineralogy
Resource Type: Pedagogic Resources:Collection, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations, Collections

Cosmochemistry Illustrated part of Web Resource Collection

This website offers short PowerPoint presentations that provide extraterrestrial examples of terrestrial topics. Longer presentations are also available for anyone wishing to go into more ...
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Igneous Rocks, Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Weathering, Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science, Physics:Astronomy:Solar System, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry:Phase Equilibria/Thermodynamics, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Igneous Processes, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry:Radioisotopes, Stable Isotopes, Oxidation/Reduction Reactions, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Geochemistry, Geoscience:Geology:Mineralogy
Resource Type: Pedagogic Resources:Collection, Overview/Summary, Audio/Visual:Collections, Images/Illustrations

The Mars Ocean Project: A Graphical Analysis of Proposed Shorelines on Mars part of Web Resource Collection

Done in the style of a journal article, the web page publishes the author's use of a virtual model to investigate the nature of proposed shorelines for past oceans on Mars. The author describes ...
Subject: Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science:Mars:Water/Ice, Images/Maps/Visualizations
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results

Cratered cobbles in Triassic Buntsandstein conglomerates in northeastern Spain: An indicator of shock deformation in the vicinity of large impacts part of Print Resource Collection
Quartzite cobbles in Lower Triassic Buntsandstein conglomerates from northeastern Spain display unusual millimeter- to centimeter-sized circular craters, commonly having central mounds and surrounded ...

Subject: Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science, Geology:Tectonics, Structural Geology:Joints/Fractures, Regional Structural/Tectonic Activity, Modeling Structural Processes, Microstructures, Deformation Mechanisms, Fabrics
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results

The Earth's Orbit part of Web Resource Collection

These eleven activities relate to the results of the motion and position of the Earth in its orbit, investigating both the causes and the effects of changing seasons. It starts simply by trying to ...
Subject: Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science, Atmospheric Science:Climatology
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity

Mars Global Surveyor MOC Images Archived (title provided or enhanced by cataloger) part of Web Resource Collection

This site features two images taken by the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) narrow angle (high resolution) camera and "colorized" by applying the colors of Mars obtained ...
Subject: Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations

Mars part of Web Resource Collection

This poster of Mars shows a full-disk mosaic, taken by the Mars Global Surveyor. The northern polar ice cap, Tharsis volcanoes, and Valles Marineris are visible. The accompanying text provides a ...
Subject: Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations