Earth

Federal source for science about the Earth, its natural andliving resources, natural hazards, and the environment.

Complete, up-to-date, mineral database containing more than 4,400 mineral species descriptions and comprehensive picture library of images. These data are linked to mineral tables by crystallography, chemical composition, physical and optical properties, Dana classification, Strunz classification, mineral name origins, mineral locality information, and alphabetical listing of all known valid mineral species. There are extensive links to other sources of mineral data available on the WWW.

International Network for Learning & Teaching Geography in Higher Education.

The Web's Premier Source of Volcano Info.

A new electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The articles are written in non-technical language and will be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public.

The web's most comprehensive and regularly updated mineralogy database with information on minerals from around the world and thousands of photos.

A systematic classification of minerals, with pictures. Good section with earth sciences resources.

Annotated links to internet resources, especially for mineralogists, petrologists, crystallographers, geologists.

Extraordinary reference site.

Recent earthquakes or seismic events, are displayed on an interactive earthquake map server.