Geoscience: Related Links
Guide content supports the teaching and research goals of multiple departments on campus. Content represents a non-exhaustive selection of essential resources and tools for engaging a wide range of backgrounds and viewpoints.
Recommended Geoscience Websites
- Earthquake Hazards Program"The USGS Earthquake Hazards Program is part of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP), established by Congress in 1977. We monitor and report earthquakes, assess earthquake impacts and hazards, and research the causes and effects of earthquake."
- GEOLEXUSGS National Geologic Lexicon Database is a search tool for lithologic and geochronologic unit names.
- USGS National Geologic Map DatabaseA catalog of geologic and other geoscience maps.
- USGS Publications WarehousePubs Warehouse provides access to over 100,000 publications written by USGS scientists over the century-plus history of the bureau.
Multimedia
- Earth Science World Image BankPhotographs of all aspects of earth science available to the public, educators, and the geoscience community.
- EROS Image GalleryIncludes Landsat and Shaded relief images of U.S. States and images from their Earth as Art displays.
- GeoScenicView and download images from the vast collections of geological photographs in the British Geological Survey.
- Landsat Missions Image GalleryThis site can be used to access images from the Landsat satellites, which have collected Earth observations and remote sensing imagery since 1972.
- NOAA Photo LibraryWeather and space images, images of the Earth's shores and coastal seas, and marine species images ranging from great whales to the most minute plankton.
- USGS Denver Library Photographic CollectionThe Photographic Collection is an archive of more than 500,000 still photographs, slides, glass plate slides, lantern slides, negatives, and sketches dating from the 1870s and taken by USGS scientists as part of their field studies. The website provides free downloads of selected images from the collection.