Ottawa Geoheritage

Professor J.A. Donaldson

Canadian Geology: Geological Survey of Canada (founded in 1842)
http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/gsc/index_e.html

Ottawa-Gatineau Geoscape:
http://geoscape.nrcan.gc.ca/ottawa/geo_ott_t1/index_e.aspx

Geoscapes of Canadian cities
http://geoscape.nrcan.gc.ca/home/index_e.asp

Canadian Landscapes (Geological Survey of Canada, Terrain Sciences Division)
http://sts.gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/clf/landscapes.asp

Virtual field trips of Canada (many links to Canadian geology)
http://college.hmco.com/geology/resources/geologylink/
fieldtrips/natrips/canada.html

Fun geology sites
Shelock Holmes would have made a great geologist
http://geology.about.com/library/weekly/aa041298.htm

Visit a classic fossil locality; the Burgess Shale
http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae/Burgess_Shale/

Carleton's Hooper Museum
http://www.carleton.ca/Museum/lobby.html

Stromatolites, Shark Bay, Australia
http://www.sharkbay.org/terrestial_enviroment/page_15.htm

http://www.calm.wa.gov.au/national_parks/hamelin_pool_mnr.html

Geological Survey of Canada's educational site
http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/gsc/education_e.html

Illustrated glossary, Steven M. Richardson, Iowa State University
http://www.ge-at.iastate.edu/courses/Geol_100/old_files/glossary.v2.html

Earth sciences in the news
http://college.hmco.com/geology/resources/geologylink/news.html

Virtual field trips North America
http://college.hmco.com/geology/resources/geologylink/
fieldtrips/natrips.html

Geology of US National Parks, USGS (United States Geological Survey)
http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/docs/usgsnps/project/home.html

General resources from USGS (maps, charts, images, animations)
http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/docs/usgsnps/misc/pdfdocs.html

USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/main.html

University of California at Berkley (with animations of continental reconstructions)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibit/geology.html

Image gallery by Allan Glazner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://www.geosci.unc.edu/faculty/glazner/Images/gallery.html