Guidebooks

Union List of Field Trip Guidebooks of North America Online

The Union List of Field Trip Guidebooks of North America is now available on the Internet. This database contains the information in the print publication.  This is an index to published field trip guidebooks.

Virtual Field Trips

Oneonta to the Hudson River Valley Online Fieldtrip

Follow this electronic road log of a geology class trip and you'll travel back some 400 million years in earth history. Along the way you'll learn the basics of rock formation and plate tectonics. Dr. Alexandra Moore, Hartwick College Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences.

A Virtual Geology Field Trip of the American Southwest

From May 13 to May 31, 1999, a group of nine geology students from Indiana University of Pennsylvania traveled almost 7500 miles, studying the rocks, fossils, and landscape of the American Southwest. They shared their virtual field trip with fifth-grade students from Marion Center High School who sent along their mascot, Ms. Bumble Bee.

The California Geotour

A Web page developed by the Department of Conservation, California Geological Survey. The California Geotour is an interactive index of Web page links to online California geologic field trip guides and geology related Web sites.

Earthtrips

A virtual journey into Earth history, by The Paleontological Research Institution.

Glacier Bay, a multimedia tour

This web site is based on the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) video,"Glacier Bay, Alaska, from the Ground, Air and Space."

Galapagos Geology on the Web

Grand Canyon Geology

Living Fossils of the Deep

An expedition to the Bahamian seafloor. From the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History.

Virtual Cave

Caves are cool! Learn about Solution Caves, Lava Tube Caves, Sea Caves and Erosional Caves.

Southern California Geology

includes trips to Cajon Pass, Anza Borrego, Palos Verdes Peninsula, Timteo Badlands, Salton Trough, Lake Perris, Palmdale Roadcut, Pisgah Volcano, Kelso Sand Dunes, Rainbow Basin and St. Francis Dam.

The San Andreas Fault and the San Francisco Bay Area

Creeping faults in Hollister, Hayward, and elsewhere

Virtually Hawaii

Monterey Bay Area

Choose a field trip and learn about the geology of the Monterey Bay area - University of California, Santa Cruz Earth Sciences Department.

Virtual and On-line Geologic Field Trip Guides: United States and Canada

A listing compiled by the Walter Geology Library, Univeristy of Texas-Austin.

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Compiled by Mary W. Scott, Geology Librarian, Orton Memorial Library of Geology
Designed by Michael C. Veres, Student Library Assistant
Last updated: October 20, 2006