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Teaching and Learning Geology

Geology resources for students, teachers and hobbyists.
Where to Look for Rocks and Minerals
Rocks and minerals can be found everywhere, but there is a learning process involved.
What Is Observing?
Scientific observation is a refined version of an everyday skill.
About Geology Blog
This very site has a blog for its home page, with frequent postings that accept comments. About Geology isn't just a blog, but the site would be quite different without it.
What Makes a Great Geology Site
After seeing 30,000 different sites, a small set of rules about the good ones.
Stereoscopic Images - Geology in 3D
Visualize in three dimensions with photo stereopairs.
Periodic Table of the Elements
About Chemistry Guide Anne Helmenstine has this easy-to-use periodic table.
Do-It-Yourself Geology News
Go past the science soundbites and dig up the facts yourself.
Field Etiquette for Geologists
The health of the profession depends on basic good behavior.
Learn to Read Geologic Maps
Start here on the first of three pages.
Seismic Refraction Method
How a seismic refraction line is prepared and recorded.
The Gallery of Peaks
Portraits of mountains, small and large, from all over the world.
Open, Gray and Clear Literature
There's more to the literature than just the journals, which constitute the open literature.
College Geology Web Sites
A pioneering college Web site earned a medal in 1997 and still looks pretty good.
Earthcaches
An Earthcache is an educational virtual geocache or physical site that people can visit to view a unique geoscience feature on-the-ground.

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