Some of the many links to relevant internet sources are compiled here. I am gradually updating this list. Bulleted items are those I've checked or added. If you find other particularly useful links, or links that are dead, please let me know - Dave Hirsch

Crystallography

• Making Matter has VRML models of many crystal structures, together with descriptions.
• Crystal Lattice Images from LSU has 3-D stereo diagrams of crystal structures.
• The Structure of Crystals has VRML models of crystal structures and lattices.
• Crystal Structure Applets has Java-based 3-D interactive rendering of various lattice types.
• Crystal Structure Movies has Quicktime movies of many mineral structures.

X-ray Diffraction

• Bragg's law will be used in lab, and is illustrated in the ingenious demo by Konstantin Lukin
• X-ray diffraction software from CrystalMaker (for Macs) is also useful

Mineralogy, Petrology, Geochemistry - General

• The Virtual Petrographic Microscope, hosted at UCLA, runs on a slow server, but has many good mineral images.
• The Mineral Gallery is a store, but has many nice images of crystals.
• Lots of photomicrographs at the UNC Atlas of Rocks, Minerals, and Textures
• How to read and use Ternary Diagrams.

Mineral Groups

• A very good course page on Feldspars, including structure, photomicrographs, occurrence, and more.
• Another course page, but covering all the Framework Silicates.
• Mainly links page for zeolites, by Tepper
• Commercial uses and synthesis of zeolites, by the International Zeolite Association
• The Clay Minerals Society organization page.
• People in Georgia goofily ascribe mythical power to staurolite!
• ...but the ones in Taos are even worse!
• A USGS site for Gas Hydrates
• A more detailed discussion of the same thing, Gas hydrates
• A page of links related to Gas hydrates

Optical Mineralogy

• Interference Figures - a good course page.
• Optical Mineralogy is a course page with very good info.
• The Virtual Atlas of Opaque and Ore Minerals is an excellent resource.

Igneous Petrology

• A course page (JMU) with fairly good Igneous Rock Classification info.
• This page covers a lot of Igneous Petrology, but in a somewhat cartoonish way. They do have a pretty good treatment of Bowen's reaction series.
• Fun! An Exercise in Igneous Rock Classification, complete with questions you have to answer.
• A comprehensive web-based flow chart for the IUGS Classification of Igneous Rocks. Any igneous rock can be named this way.
• Flood basalts: Deccan Traps, India
• Flood basalts: Columbia River Flood Basalt Province
• Local igneous rock makes it big, but drowns! - The Baringer Hill Pegmatite
• Local UTDOGS student's web site makes it big! - Rob's Granite Page (definitely check out "Ways granite is like ice cream")

Hydrothermal Alteration

• Black smoker expeditions site at the American Museum of Natural History

Isotope Geology

• A good introduction to isotope geochmistry
• Two chapters of a detailed on-line textbook (8 & 9) deal with radioisotope and stable isotope geochemistry
• A good page on the Oklo Natural Fission Reactor

Metamorphic Petrology

• Basics of Metamorphic Rocks
• A much better treatment of Metamorphic Rocks
• An excellent discussion of Regional Metamorphism from Steve Nelson.

Petrology and Public Policy - Asbestos

• A good history of asbestos in the US.
• A brief discussion of asbestos health risks from the Treasure Troves
• Uses of asbestos from The Asbestos Institute
• The Libby vermiculite-asbestos issue, as reported by ABCNEWS.com.
• The EPA's perspective on the Libby issue - lots of scientific studies.
• The recent asbestos-in-crayons controversy, as reported by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• A CPSC news release on an asbestos-in-crayons risk study.

Other Links pages

• Wurzburg links for mineralogists (maintained by K-P. Kelber) lists many interesting sources for instance, explore the Wurzburg thin section links
• The Mineralogical Society of America home page also contains many good links
• A brief discussion of the Mineral resources of Texas.
• Techniques and information about the Electron Microprobe.
• A good discussion of the causes of Color in Minerals

U Dayton (A. Koziol) links to research on the web
Athena mineral search program
Cornell geochem links
American Geophysical Union home page
Smithsonian collections
Skarns are discussed in Larry Meinert's pages
A USGS overview of clathrate hydrates and a structure model of Clathrate hydrates
Structure and Metamorphic links by J. Kraus
M. Helper's U. Texas gem and mineral course
The U. Texas CT lab provides a new way to look at rocks and fossils
and other Texas grad's work is Kempter's Costa Rica volcano study
an interesting regional study in southern Colorado is Spanish Peaks
and a commercial link with a lot of useful information is at Mineral Gallery
and very little useful information is at this site.

• Mid ocean ridge on land! People stop lava flow in it's tracks! (with the help of millions of cubic meters of seawater) – Eldfell, Heimaey, Iceland

Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program
The "Preliminary Notices" Smithsonian link is a useful source for recent reports of volcanism
"Italy's Volcanoes: The Cradle of Volcanology" by Behncke is a great source of info and links
The Electronic Volcano
Michigan Tech University Volcanoes Page
which has links to impressive movies of pyroclastic flows on Montserrat
Volcano World
Cascades Volcano Observatory (USGS, L. Topinka) is a general source, not just for the Cascades
EOS Volcanology links
The Long Valley Caldera
Mt. St. Helens (USGS)
USGS Volcanic Hazards
Volcanoes and climate (NASA)
Io - the most active volcanism in our solar system - and other moons of Jupiter: NASA pages

The magnitude 7 quake on October 16, 1999 is discussed in this southern California link
The USGS has informative web pages describing the 1999 magnitude 7 quakes in Turkey
NASA Geodynamics branch
NASA Mars surveyor
Mars Polar Lander on 12/3/99
NASA pages on the Galileo mission to Jupiter
National Earthquake Information Center (Craig Jones) provides a good and simple world display of quakes
IRIS Seismic Monitor provides a more complex world display of quakes
Southern California quakes
NEIC seismicity
U Texas Institute of Geophysics UTIG quakes
current quakes

and the U Texas Geology library has links to many earth science subjects on its web pages