Tagged “geology”
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GPlates Cesium
An interactive 3D globe from GPlates that plays back millions of years of plate tectonics, letting you spin the Earth as…
Herkimer Stardust
A personal collection site showing twenty years of hand-dug Herkimer diamonds, the clear quartz crystals once stashed in…
HiRISE
High-resolution orbital imagery of the Martian surface from the HiRISE camera, revealing craters, dunes, and ancient geo…
History of Geology
A blog by geologist David Bressan on how geological ideas developed over time, with historical stories drawn from glacie…
Iceland Geology
A blog tracking volcano and earthquake activity in Iceland, with updates on eruptions and general notes on the island's…
In Search Of A Flood Like No Other
A playful deep dive into the Zanclean megaflood, when the Atlantic broke through at Gibraltar and refilled a dried-out M…
IRIS Seismic Monitor
A real-time global map of earthquakes plotted moments after detection by a worldwide network of seismographs run by acad…
Lake Nyos, Menchum
The Cameroon crater lake that released a cloud of carbon dioxide in 1986 and suffocated over 1,700 people in one night,…
Latest Earthquakes - USGS
Interactive USGS map showing real-time and recent earthquake activity around the world.
Life & Supercontinents
An interactive timelapse of Earth's continents and supercontinents over the past two billion years, showing how the land…
Macrostrat
An interactive geologic map and rock-column database showing what lies under any spot in the world, layered by age, type…
Magnified Sand
Photos of sand grains under a microscope, organised by location, revealing the colourful shapes and textures hidden in b…
Mindat
The world's largest open database of minerals, rocks, and localities, with photographs and data maintained by a communit…
Minerals.net
A comprehensive online mineral and gemstone encyclopedia with photographs, chemical properties, and identification guide…
Mines.fyi
A free search and map of more than 91,000 US mines from the MSHA open dataset, filterable by state, commodity, mine type…
Moving Beaches
The surprising story of the global, mostly invisible and often illegal trade in sand, where whole beaches are dug up and…
National Speleological Society
America's caving society sharing cave science, conservation, and exploration resources, including geology of karst lands…
NM Geology Virtual Tour - Shiprock
A stop on New Mexico's geology virtual tour explaining Ship Rock, the towering volcanic neck rising from the desert, wit…
Photovolcanica
A photographer's gallery of dramatic volcanic eruptions and lava fields from expeditions around the Pacific Ring of Fire…
Raspberry Shake
A citizen seismology network where anyone can view live seismograms from personal earthquake sensors installed around th…
Rivers Through Time
A geologist uses decades of Landsat images to animate Amazonian rivers like the Ucayali writhing and cutting off meander…
Sandatlas
A photographer's collection of extreme close-up images of sand grains from beaches around the world, paired with geology…
Seismic Portal
A live map from European seismologists plotting earthquakes as they are detected around the world, updated within minute…
Seismological Society of America
The public research and outreach hub of a scientific society devoted to earthquake studies, sharing findings and educati…
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