LABORATORY MANUAL IN PHYSICAL GEOLOGY HOMEPAGE

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INTRODUCTION

The Internet includes a complex World Wide Web (WWW) of resources on Earth and the geosciences that grows each second. As you read this note, people all over the world are adding information to the Internet for you to find and use. Some of this information is historical in nature. But much Internet information is added in real time--that is, as fast as events occur, observations are made, and the data are recorded and/or interpreted. Unfortunately, a search for specific information can take a long time, and addresses of specific sites (called "universal resource locators", or "URLs") tend to change often. Some of the URL's listed on pages in your laboratory manual or this Internet site may even have changed already.

I have constructed this no-frills site so that students like you will have easy access to the plethora of free information that other people want to share with you via the World Wide Web. There are some GENERAL REFERENCE LINKS that include basic background information and links to URL's of a general nature. I recommend The Virtual Earth site as an excellent introduction to the WWW for students in Earth science courses. LABORATORY LINKS provides lists of hot links to URLs that have been specifically chosen to help you complete exercises in a particular laboratory. OTHER INTERESTING TOPICS & LINKS are also provided for you to browse for fun and aspects of the geosciences that were not addressed in specific laboratory exercises.

Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology is produced under the auspices of the American Geological Institute and the National Association of Geoscience Teachers. Innovative features, outstanding ideas & materials donated by the contributing authors, and attention to an extensive peer review process, have helped make this the most widely-used geology laboratory manual on the market. However, I would sincerely appreciate hearing your constructive criticisms and suggestions for improving it. Also, please let me know the URL of any useful Internet site on geoscience that you maintain or find, so I can add a link to this site. Thank you!

Richard M. Busch, Editor, Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology
Dept. of Geology & Astronomy, West Chester University, West Chester, PA 19383
Rich Busch rbusch@wcupa.edu
 

CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS

If you are using a copy of the first printing of this new edition of the AGI-NAGT Labroatory Manual in Physical Geology, then you must make these minor corrections. These corrections will be present already, if you are using a copy of the second printing.

GENERAL REFERENCE LINKS

LABORATORY LINKS

OTHER INTERESTING TOPICS & LINKS

Michael J. Smith, Last Updated on 1-5-99