Geoscience

Geosciences links

Online resource directories
Museums with geological collections: Australia
Museums with geological collections: worldwide
Online databases
Gold in Australia
Minerals and mining: fact sheets
Geology and landforms: maps
Geological time scale
Plate tectonics and continental drift
Earthquakes
Meteorites and Impact Sites
Australian Astronomical Societies
Earth Science news and events
Geological Societies
Mineralogical Associations/Societies
Economic Geology Societies
Australian Geological Surveys
Mineralogy
Mineral Collecting in Australia
Gemstones
Limestone Caves
Volcanoes
Geochemistry
Marine Environments
Employment in the Geosciences

Online resource directories

Australian Museum Online Explore: Geology
http://www.amonline.net.au/explore/geology.htm
University of Oxford Department of Earth Sciences: General Earth Science WWW Resources
http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~davewa/geores.html
University of Dayton: Mineralogy and Petrology Research on the Web - a list of journals, databases, researchers and other useful research links
http://homepages.udayton.edu/~koziol/resminpet.html
New Scientist Weblinks: Earth Science - includes reviews of each site listed
http://www.newscientist.com/weblinks/categories/earth1.jsp

Museums with geological collections: Australia

Museum Victoria:
Research - Mineralogy and Petrology
http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/collections/sciences/mineralogy.asp
Collections: Geology
http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/collections/sciences/natrocks.asp
Western Australian Museum: minerals and rocks
http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/default.asp?et=3&ei=133&styleSheet=perth.css
South Australian Museum: minerals and rocks
http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/earthsc.htm#mmi
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au
West Coast Pioneers Memorial Museum, Zeehan
http://www.tased.edu.au/tasonline/zeemus
Mining Hall of Fame, Kalgoorlie
http://www.mininghall.com
Crystal Kingdom Mineral Museum, Coonabarabran: minerals of the Warrumbungles
http://www.crystalkingdom.com.au/
Queensland Museum: Geology Section
http://www.qmuseum.qld.gov.au/organisation/sections/PalaeontologyGeology/index.asp

Museums with geological collections: worldwide

The Natural History Museum, United Kingdom: Department of Mineralogy
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/mineralogy/index.html
Smithsonian Department of Mineral Sciences
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/minsci/
Los Angeles County Museum: Mineral Sciences
http://www.nhm.org/research/minsci
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago: Geology
http://www.fmnh.org/research_collections/geology
School of Mines, Paris, Museum of Mineralogy
http://www.musee.ensmp.fr
Pierre & Marie Curie University of Paris, Museum of Mineralogy
http://www-ext.lmcp.jussieu.fr/mineraux
Museum of Natural History, Paris: Geology Department
http://www.mnhn.fr/mnhn/geo
Royal Ontario Museum: Gallery of Earth Sciences
http://www.rom.on.ca/earth
Museum of Natural History, Vienna
http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/d/engvorschau.html

Online databases

Australian Museum - Albert Chapman Mineral Collection
http://www.amonline.net.au/chapman/
Oxford University Museum of Natural History - Mineralogy: includes images of some specimens
http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/onlinedb/minerals/minintro.htm
Oxford University Museum of Natural History - Petrology
http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/petdata.htm
School of Mines, Paris: Mineralogy Collection
http://www.musee.snsmp.fr/mineral/catalogue.html

Gold in Australia

Sovereign Hill: Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.sovereignhill.com.au/education/faq.shtml
Department of Mineral Resources Minfacts category: history of mining in New South Wales, including gold
http://www.minerals.nsw.gov.au/minfacts/hismin.htm
Australian National Maritime Museum: Gold 150 - Celebrating 150 Years of Australian Gold-rush History
http://www.anmm.gov.au/gold150/gold150.htm
Victorian Cultural Collaboration: SBS Gold!
http://www.sbs.com.au/gold/#

Minerals and mining: fact sheets

Department of Mineral Resources Minfacts: fact sheets containing easy-to-read information about minerals, exploration and mining in New South Wales
http://www.minerals.nsw.gov.au/mapspubs/minfacts.htm
Minerals Council of Australia: Mineral Fact Sheets
http://www.minerals.org.au/education_program/mineral_fact_sheets.htm?section=
education_program&menu=21&submenu=&ub=f&subpage=Mineral+Fact+Sheets

Geology and landforms: maps

Geoscience Australia: online mapping
http://www.agso.gov.au/map/
Geoscience Australia: National Mapping - Aerial Photography - Flight Line Diagrams
http://www.agso.gov.au/nmd/products/photos/photo.jsp
Geological Survey of New South Wales: maps and digital data
http://www.minerals.nsw.gov.au/geosurvey/products/mapsdata.htm

Geological time scale

Australia's Lost Kingdoms: Geological Time
http://www.lostkingdoms.com/snapshots/geological_time.htm
University of California Museum of Palaeontology: Web Geological Time Machine
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.html

Plate tectonics and continental drift

Monash University Palaeontology Lab: Common questions: Gondwana and continental drift
http://www.earth.monash.edu.au/dinodream/faq/faqgond.htm
United States Geological Survey (USGS): This Dynamic Earth: the story of plate tectonics
http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html
University of California Geology: Plate Tectonics: The Mechanism
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tecmech.html

Earthquakes

Geoscience Australia Earthquakes and Natural Hazards
http://www.ga.gov.au/urban/

Meteorites and Impact Sites

Smithsonian Institution Department of Mineral Sciences: Division of Meteorites
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/minsci/meteor.htm
Natural History Museum, London: meteorite collection
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/mineralogy/collections/meteor.htm
The Meteoritical Society
http://www.meteoriticalsociety.org
Earth Impact Database
http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase

Australian Astronomical Societies

Astronomical Society of New South Wales
http://www.asnsw.com
Australasian Astronomical Societies
http://www.bas.asn.au/links/societies.htm

Earth Science news and events

Earth Science Week: yearly event promoted by Geological Society of Australia
http://www.gsa.org.au/education/scienceweek.htm
GeologyLink: Geology in the news
http://college.hmco.com/geology/resources/geologylink/news.html

Geological Societies

Geological Society of Australia
http://www.gsa.org.au
The Geological Society
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk
Geological Society of America
http://www.geosociety.org
Geological Society of South Africa
http://www.gssa.org.za/index.php

Mineralogical Associations/Societies

International Mineralogical Association (IMA)
http://wwwobs.univ-bpclermont.fr/ima/
The Mineralogical Society
http://www.minersoc.org
Mineralogical Association of Canada
http://www.mineralogicalassociation.ca
Mineralogical Society of America
http://www.minsocam.org/
The Russell Society
http://www.russellsoc.org
The Geological Society of Australia Specialist Group in Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology
http://www.sggmp.gsa.org.au/
Rock and Mineral Societies of the World
http://www.geonord.org/org/clubs/world.html

Economic Geology Societies

Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)
http://www.segweb.org/
Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA)
http://www.e-sga.org/

Australian Geological Surveys

Geological Survey of New South Wales
http://www.minerals.nsw.gov.au/geosurvey/
Geoscience Australia
http://www.ga.gov.au
Geological Survey of Queensland
http://www.nrm.qld.gov.au/science/geoscience
Geological Survey of Tasmania
http://www.mrt.tas.gov.au
Geological Survey of the Northern Territory
http://www.dme.nt.gov.au/ntgs/
Geological Survey of South Australia
http://www.pir.sa.gov.au/sector5.shtml
Geological survey of western australia
http://www.doir.wa.gov.au/GSWA/index.asp
Geological Survey of Victoria: Minerals and Petroleum
http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au/index.htm

Mineralogy

Links for Mineralogists
http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/links
Athena Mineralogy
http://www.un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/mineral/mineral.html

Mineral Collecting in Australia

Steve Sorells Crocoite.com
http://www.crocoite.com
The Australian Mineral Collector
http://www.home.gil.com.au/~mineral/

Gemstones

Grant Boxers diamond exploration pages
http://members.iinet.net.au/~boxer/index.html
Gemmological Association of Australia
http://www.gem.org.au
Gem & Lapidary Council of New South Wales
http://www.home.gil.com.au
Gem Wire
http://www.gemstone.or
National Council of Jewellery Valuers
http://www.ncjv.com.au
Gemstone information and cutting properties
http://www.faceters.com/properties/index.shtml
Gateway to Gemstone Designs on the Internet
http://www.rockhounds.com/rockshop/gem_designs/design_index.shtml

Limestone Caves

Jenolan Caves Reserve Trust
http://www.jenolancaves.org.au
Jenolan Caves
http://www.members.ozemail.com.au/~rawhyte
Speleonics
http://www.speleonics.com.au
Australian Speleological Federation
http://www.caves.org.au

Volcanoes

Michigan Technological University Volcano Pages
http://www.geo-mtu.edu/volcanoes
Volcano World
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
http://www.nps.gov/havo
USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory
http://ww.vulcan.wr.usgs.gov
The Electronic Volcano
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~volcano
Alaska Volcano Observatory
http://www.avo.alaska.edu

Geochemistry

Geokem
http://www.geokem.com

Marine Environments

Seafriends website
http://www.seafriends.org.nz/

Employment in the Geosciences

Earthworks
http://www.earthworks-jobs.com
Geological Society of America employment service
http://www.geosociety.org/profdev/empsvc1.html
Skilled Geoscience
http://www.skilledgeoscience.com/