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Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences (EOS), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada: Magma mixing. This website on magma mixing is based on ideas and theories taken from papers authored by Stephen Blake and Gregory N. Ivey. Within these pages they define, discuss the controlling factors, provide examples and show a laboratory simulation (MPEG movie, 1.4 Meg) of magma mixing.

ZDNet Germany (CNET Networks Deutschland GmbH, München): Downloads (in German). Worth checking out: Die Top 50 Downloads, or Download-Tipp des Tages. Programs described, user rated and user discussed.

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NoNags. Rewarding for editors and multimedia tools.

! Philip C. Robinson (Department of Ceramic Technology, Staffordshire Polytechnic, Stroke-on-Trent), and Michael W. Davidson (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, The Florida State University, Tallahassee), Nikon, MicroscopyU: Introduction to Polarized Light Microscopy.

GEOTECHNOLOGIEN (a geoscientific research and development programme funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) and the German Research Council (DFG)): Current projects, Mineral Surfaces – From Atomic Processes to Geotechnology. Full text available as PDF file, in German: Mineraloberflächen: Von atomaren Prozessen zur Geotechnik.

Janet L. Schrenk and John L. Bordley, University of the South, Sewanee TN (with support from the National Science Foundation) An Introduction to Polarizing Light Microscopy. The basics of polarizing light microscopy.

Director Referate: Kohle. In German.

Charlotte Derksen (Stanford University), Geoscience Information Society: Selected Web Sites for Geoscientists. Excellent!

Australian Mineral Collector: Go to: Links to the World Wide Web.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Komatiite Wouter Bleeker et al.: Archean quartzite-banded iron formation-komatiite sequences: indicators of rifting of Mesoarchean supercratons. PDF file.

geoberg.de. A forum chiefly about mining, mineralogy and petrology (in German). Go to: News.

R.E.T. Hill, CSIRO Exploration and Mining, Wembley, Western Australia: Komatiite volcanology, volcanological setting and primary geochemical properties of komatiite-associated nickel deposits. Abstract, Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis; 2001; v. 1; no. 4; p. 365-381.

! Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ: Patterns in Nature. Lecture notes, ranging from the use of optical microscopes, examination of rock samples to observations of the solar spectrum. Go to: Light and Optics - Readings.

Nicolas Lazzarelli, SENA (Servicio Nacional de Aprentisaje) Popayan, Colombia: Gemstone Identification Chart 2006. A tool to analyse the results got with all the standard gem identification instruments (with costs).

Marieke Degen, Die Zeit (a German newspaper): Ein Schatz in Gläsern. The revival of the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (in German).

University of Sienna: Raman database.

Peter Goodhew, University of Liverpool: Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM). This is a set of resources designed to accompany an introductory course on transmission electron microscopy.

Logitech Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland. Suppliers of thin section preparation equipment and systems.

Zbynek Burival: rockhound.cz. Mineral gallery, go to: List of minerals.

TTI Production: SIGEOL. Software for GIS and geology, with costs (free evaluation version available).

Steve Grand, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.: Delegate sensibilities.

Roy Plotnick, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago: I'm Sorry I Missed Your Talk!

Educational Rockhound blog. This blog has been designed to help Rockhound enthusiasts connect, swap valuable information and chat about current events.

frisep e.V. (Lutz Geißler), Freiberg: Wir sind überall. Geosciences and mining easy to understand (in German).

Steve Mattox, VolcanoWorld: Rocks and Minerals slide show.

The Mineral Information Institute (MII) MII is a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to educating youth about the science of minerals and other natural resources, and about their importance in our every day lives. Go to: Mineral Photographs.

The Museum of Planetary Sciences, Prato, Italy Catalogue Online, Catalogue Minerals.

Charles Burrows, Spring Valley High School, Rockland County, NY: Animations and Visual Learning Aids. Interactive rock reference (rock types and accompanying images).

! The Russian Academy of Sciences and Pleiades Publishing, Inc.: International Academic Publishing Company, Nauka/Interperiodica. Journals and books. IAPC "Nauka" publishes 95 journals in English, and over 100 journals in Russian. Go to: Scientific Journals.

H. King, Mansfield University (Geology.com): Teaching Plate Tectonics with Easy-to-Draw Illustrations. This is an online lesson for teachers at all grade levels. It includes animations and a teacher's guidebook. It summarizes a presentation that has been made at several meetings of the National Science Teacher's Association.

The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS): Time Scale Creator. This is a time-scale database with visualization package (in Java). You can download it for free.

Barbara L. Dutrow, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA: Teaching Mineralogy from the Core to the Crust. PDF file, Journal of Geoscience Education, Volume 52, Number 1, January 2004.

Nobel e-Museum, The Nobel Foundation, Sweden: Microscopes – Help Scientists Explore Hidden Worlds. Information about Phase Contrast-, Fluorescence-, Transmission Electron-, and Scanning Tunneling Microscopes, (including a microscopy time line), as well as interactive simulators.

Olympus Industrial America Micro-Imaging Division

Mikroskopie-Treff.de (website hosted by edv-marketing & mediadesign, Göttingen). Microscopy in a nutshell, a German forum.

Jeff Crabaugh (University of Wyoming), The Science Education Resource Center (SERC), Carleton College: Teaching Geoscience with Visualizations: Using Images, Animations, and Models Effectively, Radioactive Decay and Absolute Age Determinations. This web page provides access to a number of visualizations and supporting material illustrating the concept of radioactive decay and its central role in radiometric dating. Visualizations include cross-linked series of diagrams, static illustrations, and photos.

Earth Science Australia: Geological time.

U. Schüßler, Institute of Mineralogy, University of Würzburg: Einführung in die radiometrische Altersdatierung. Powerpoint lectures, in German.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Radiometric dating.

Andrew MacRae, The Talk.Origins Archive: Radiometric Dating and the Geological Time Scale. Circular Reasoning or Reliable Tools? This website discusses the way radiometric dating and stratigraphic principles are used to establish the conventional geological time scale.

JEOL-USA, Inc., Peabody, MA: JEOL is an innovator in developing instruments used in advanced scientific research and technology (electron microscopy, mass spectrometry, e-beam lithography and defect analysis). Go to:
! A Guide to Scanning Microscope Observation (HTML or PDF).

Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft (DMG): DMG-Aktuell - Aktivitäten und Neuigkeiten aus dem Umfeld der DMG. Activities and news around the DMG (in German).

Society of Economic Geologists (SEM). The objectives of SEM are to advance the science of geology through the scientific investigation of mineral deposits and mineral resources, to disseminate basic and applied scientific information arising from investigations of mineral deposits and mineral resources through SEG publications, conferences, field trips, etc, and to maintain a high professional and ethical standard among its members. Go to: Jobs, and Links.

D.J. Vaughan, R.A.D. Pattrick and R.A. Wogelius: Minerals, metals and molecules: ore and environmental mineralogy in the new millennium. Abstract, Mineralogical Magazine, v. 66; no. 5; p. 653-676; 2002. Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

Greg B. Arehart, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno: Ore Deposits. Lecture notes.

John Gustav Delly, Book review: The Petrographic Microscope: Evolution of a Mineralogical Research Instrument. by Daniel E. Kile. Special Publication No. 1, A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record, November-December 2003. The historical development of the petrographic microscope through the early 1900s and then into the 1970s.

Alan Plante & Donald Peck, ( Bob's Rock Shop): MINERAL IDENTIFICATION KEY.

FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory a project of the Free Software Foundation, Inc.(FSF), Boston, MA, and United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Useful free software that runs under free operating systems — particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants. There are 4,386 packages indexed.

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