The following are generic sites.  You may find other links in connection with different parts of my page.

A few basic web tools

Search the web with AltaVista.

Search the web with Yahoo.
 


Some geology resources

Follow these links to the home pages of the American Geological Institute, the American Geophysical Union, and the Geological Society of America. The AGI page includes a link to the GeoRef preview database (recent references that are being processed for inclusion in GeoRef).

Information on volcanic activity is provided by 1) Michigan Technological University (Volcanoes Page), 2)  VolcanoWorld., 3) volcanic structures
4)  Volcanic eruption types, 5)  Gasses from Lowenstern page,  6)  Volcanic hazard, 7) Volcanic ash advisories,  8) Santorini, Etna, Howaii photo gallery,9)U. British Columbia Intro to Petrology  , 10) Nelson's Geol 212, Tulene U.
 

Earthquake data is available from the National Earthquake Information Center (gldss7 or wwwneic).

For 7.5 quads from GeoComm digital elevation models (DEM's) (formerly from the from the USGS).

Index maps for 1:250,000 topographic maps (and DEM's), also from the USGS.
 

Find out what's new on the web at Michael Garrison's Websurfer's Biweekly Earth Science Review.



Miscellaneous


For all sorts of information (almanac data, weather, geophysical events, travel info, telephone directories, etc.), go to Martindale's 'The Reference Desk'.

Connect to Maps On Us for U.S. highway maps and a nifty route planner.

Find U.S. legislative information (e.g. Reauthorization Bills for the National Geologic Mapping Act of 1992) at the Thomas page, a service of the U.S. Congress.

Check out the on-line edition of one of our local newspapers, the Chattanooga Free Press; see what's new in Chattanooga.

Check out the weather on the summit of Mount Washington, location of the highest wind ever recorded on the surface of Earth.

Learn about the Mount Washington Cog Railway at the page by Paul Forbes.

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