Department of Geosciences
North Dakota State University
Geology 300:
ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY
LINKS

Volcanoes | Earthquakes | Landslides | River Flooding | General Links | Books

Volcanoes

• Volcanoworld! Homepage
• USGS Volcano Hazards Program
• USGS - Cascades Volcano Observatory
• Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program
• Michigan Technological University's Volcanoes Page
• Volcanoes & Iceland (Northeastern University)
• Volcano Research Center, Japan
• Stromboli On-Line
• Volcanic Hazard vs. Volcanic Risk

Italian Volcanoes

• Volcanoworld - Etna
• Volcanoworld - Stromboli
• Volcanoworld - Vesuvius
• Volcanoworld - Vulcano
• Volcanoworld - Lipari
• Vesuvius - Links page
• Etna Current Activity
• Pictures of Historic Vesuvius Eruptions
• Article "Preventing Pompeii" (from the Christian Science Monitor)

• Picture 1 | Picture 2 | Picture 3 | Picture 4
• A NASA satellite image of Popocatepetl
• Most recent pictures (continuously updated)

Earthquakes

• USGS Earthquake Hazards Program
• USGS National Earthquake Information Center
• Yahoo! Earthquake and Seismology News Page
• The Virtual Earthquake

Landslides

• U.S.G.S. Landslide Hazards Page
• FEMA Fact Sheet: Landslides And Mudflows
• U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1183 - Landslide Overview Map of the Conterminous United States
• U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2130 - The Slumgullion Earth flow
• Videoclips of the Rissa quick clay landslide in Norway which took place in 1978

  River Flooding

  • Red River of the North Flooding Links
  U.S. EPA Pages
  
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Main Page
    
  • EPA Envirofacts Main Page
    
  • EPA Hazardous Waste Query Form
    
  • EPA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System (CERCLIS) Data by Zip code
    
  • EPA Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Data by Zip code
    

  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  NASA's Natural Hazards Web Site
  Extensive Links Page on Hazards and Disasters - University of Colorado, Boulder Natural Hazards Center
  Internet Resources for Environmental Journalists
  North Dakota Health Dept. - Environmental Health Section
  Web Page Opposing Proposed Crandon Mine, Northern Wisconsin
  US Bureau of Reclamation, Great Plains Region Environmental Activities
  Environmental Organizations On-Line With the EnviroLink Network

  Some Books - An Incomplete List
  

  • Carrels, Peter. 1999. Uphill Against Water: The Great Dakota Water War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 238 pp. (In North Dakota State University and Concordia College Libraries)
  • Easterbrook, Gregg. 1995. Moment on Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism. New York: Viking, 745 p. (In Minnesota State University-Moorhead and Concordia College Libraries)
    
  • Gore, Albert. 1992. Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 407 p. (In North Dakota State University, Minnesota State University-Moorhead, and Concordia College Libraries)
    
  • Ponting, Clive. 1992. A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations. New York: St. Martin's Press, 432 p. (In Concordia College Library)
    
  • Reisner, Marc. 1993. Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water. NY: Penguin Books, 582 p. (In North Dakota State University Library)
    
  • Schneiderman, J.S., ed. 2000. The Earth Around Us: Maintaining a Livable Planet. New York: W.H. Freeman. 455 p. (in Concordia College Library)
    
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  B. Saini-Eidukat
  Spring 2001
  Environmental Geology
  Geology 300

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