Christof Kuhn's Geology-Links:

Also see Regional Geology Links (Austria and her surroundings)!

Academic Sites:
- Europe:
  - BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna: Institute of Applied Geology
  - Österr.Archäologiebund: Mag.Thinschmidt - Cultural Geology
  - University of Vienna: Institute of Geology
    - Univ. of Vienna: Dr.Grasemann professionally and privately
    - Univ. of Vienna: Dr.Decker
    - Univ. of Vienna: Dr.Wagreich
    - Univ. of Vienna: Mag.Draganits
  - University of Vienna: Institute of Palaeontology
  - University of Vienna: Institute of Geochemistry - special: Impact Cratering !
  - Vienna University of Technology: Institute of Engineering Geology
  - Karl-Franzens-University Graz: Institute of Geology and Paleontology
  - Graz University of Technology: Institute of Applied Geosciences
  - Univ. of Leoben: Inst. for Geosciences (partly in German)
  - University of Salzburg: Institute f. Geology and Palaeontology
  - University of Innsbruck: Institute f. Geology and Palaeontology
  - University of Würzburg: Inst. of Mineralogy, especially Paleobotany
  - Univ. of Stuttgart: Geology, Paleontology
  - Univ. of Munich: Inst. of General and Applied Geology
  - Univ. of Munich: Andre Kempe: Historical Geology in and around Europe
  - Univ. of Frankfurt: Inst. of Geology and Paleontology
  - Univ. of Frankfurt: Geology for Beginners
  - Univ. of Freiburg i.Br.: Geological Inst.
  - Univ. of Clausthal: German WWW-Server - complete list of geo-institutes of Germany...
  - Univ. of Mainz: List of Geological Surveys
  - Univ. Karlsruhe: Virtual Library - Geosciences
  - "Athena" Univ. of Génève: List of various Minerals + Images
  - Univ. of Basel: Department of Geosciences
  - Univ. of Bern: Binn Valley (Wallis)
  - Univ. of Bern: Reto Hänni: Stratigraphy of Bernese Oberland
  - ETH Zürich: Department of Geosciences
  - ETH Zürich: Publications of Uli
  - Univ. Zürich: Christof Benz - alpine glaciers
  - Uni Lausanne: Comparative evolution of Peritethyan rift basins
  - Uni Lausanne Tethyan Plate Tectonics
  - Technical Univ. of Delft: Altimetry Atlas of the World
  - École des Mines de Paris: Mineral Species more mineral species than you can think of! (incl. description, pictures,...)
  - Univ. of Southampton: West's Geology Directory - Links
  - Univ. of Sheffield: Periodic Table links
  - Univ. of Keele: Geological Howlers - you will burst out laughing!!!!
  - Univ. of Edinburgh: Geology of Holyrood Park Edinburgh
  - Uniwersitet Posnan: Virtual Geomorphology
  - Univ. of Umeå: LW's Geology Page
  - Univ. of Oulu: The KT Boundary
- America:
  - Univ. of Arkansas: Guide to On-Line Geospatial Data
  - Univ. of Iowa: Slides from Lecture 41 or Sedimentary Structure Images
  - Univ. of Iowa: Maps and References
  - Univ. of Oklahoma: Structural Geology
  - Univ. of Indiana: Scientific WWW-Servers
  - Univ. of Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey
  - Iowa State Univ.: Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms
  - DeKalb College Georgia: Physical Geology
  - Univ. of Virginia: Geomorphology Homepage
  - Smith College Massachusetts: Department of Geology
  - Ulster County Community College: Steven Schimmrich's Homepage
  - San Diego Supercomputer Center: Welcome to EarthRISE- thousands of photos from space - all areas of the world
  - Univ. of N-Carolina: Atlas of igneous and metamorph rocks
  - Univ. of Berkeley: Plate Tectonics (animations!)
  - Univ. of Berkeley: Lisa Well's Geomorphological Images
  - Texas A&M Univ.: Glossary of Oceanography
  - Univ. of Texas at Brownsville: Gene Paull Homepage
  - Univ. of Texas at Austin: Granites are like Ice Cream - a way cold analogy?
  - SW Missouri State Univ.: Streams - fluvial geomorphology
  - Univ. of Georgia: Geology field images
  - Univ. of Arizona: The Tree of Life
  - Arizona State University: Arizona Geology with nice images: geomorphology - dipping beds
  - Arizona State University: John Hernlund's Page - Geology of Arizona
  - Mesa Community College: John Hernlund's Page
  - Northern Arizona University: Stratigraphy...Colorado Plateau with spectacular photos, paleotectonics of the earth, geol. sections of USA,...
  - Univ. of Calif. San Diego: Seafloor Topography - worldwide seafloor maps
  - Univ. of Calif. Santa Barbara: Geo Surf
  - Univ. of Oregon: Martin Miller Homepage
  - Foothill - De Anza Community College (Calif.): Maryland's fluvial geomorphology
  - Univ. of Wisconsin: Mineral Reference - (almost) all minerals in existence; with explanations
  - Univ. of N Dakota: Volcano World Starting Points - all you ever wanted to know about the world's volcanoes
  - Univ. of Colorado: Smyth's Homepage
  - Johns Hopkins Univ. (Maryland): Color Landform Atlas of the US
  - P.W.Harben Inc.: Mineral Names with etymologies
  - Univ. of Alberta: Kevin's Page of Death: Trilobites
  - Univ. of Calgary: Crystal Structures
  - Univ. of Calgary: What "real" geologists are like (not entirely serious...)
  - Univ. of British Columbia: Geology 202 - Documentation of Geology course
  - Univ. of British Columbia / Smith College / Keck Foundation L.A.: Structural Geol. Slide Set - 100 mikro- bis makroskopische Dias
  - Brock Univ. (Ontario), Jürgen Kraus: Structural Geol. and Metam. Petrology on the WWW
  - Univ. of Saskatchewan: Geological Engineering Home Page
- Asia:
  - The Resource, Environment & Civil Engineering School Tokyo: Introduction to the Mineral
- Australia, Pazific:
  - Macquairie Univ.: The Virtual Earth (Mirror Site Oxford,UK)
  - Univ. of Otago: Ask-A-Geologist
Official sites:
VERY complete list: geologynet.com: Geological Surveys
- Europe:
  - Austria: Austrian Geological Survey
  - Germany: Department of Geosciences and Mining
  - Germany / Bavaria: Bavarian Geological Survey - only German
  - Switzerland: Geological Maps of Switzerland
  - United Kingdom: British Geological Survey
  - Ireland (Éire): Geological Survey of Ireland
  - Netherlands: Geological Survey of the Netherlands
  - Czech Rep.: Czech Geological Survey
  - Slovak Rep.: Geological Survey of Slovak Rep.
  - Poland: Polish Geological Institute
  - Poland: Department of Geology (Ministry of Env. Protection etc.)
  - Hungary: Geological Institute of Hungary
  - Hungary: Hungarian Geological Survey
  - Slowenien: Geological Survey of Slovenia
  - Greece: Greek Geological Survey
  - Denmark: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
  - Norway: Geological Survey of Norway
  - Sweden: Geological Survey of Sweden
  - Finland: Geological Survey of Finland
- America:
  - Canada: Geological Survey of Canada
  - Canada: Terrain Sciences Division
  - Canada: Database of Terrestial Impact Structures
  - Canada: Digital isochrons of the world's ocean floor
  - USA: U.S.Geological Survey
  - USA: USGS: Bedform sedimentology
  - USA: USGS: Sea level changes
  - USA: USGS: Dictionary of mining, minerals and related terms
  - USA: Sandia National Labs: Comet impact simulation
  - USA: NASA: KT event cyclochronology
  - USA: NASA: Geomorphology from Space - Images from Space Shuttle of areas all over the world
  - USA: NASA: Global map of Mars
  - USA: NASA: SIR-C/X-SAR - Radar images from all over the world - geologically relevant areas
  - USA: NOAA: Surface of the Earth - 2 minute color relief images
  - USA - National Imagery and Mapping Agency: Digital Terrain Elevation Data - worldwide
  - USA - National Imagery and Mapping Agency: Geonames - find any place on earth
- Asia, Australia, Africa:
  - Japan: Geological Survey of Japan
  - Australia: Australian Geological Survey
  - Zuid Africa: Council for Geoscience
Organisations, commercial or private sites:
- Austrian Geological Society
- Geology Link
- Geological Society of America
- Yahoo: Geology and Geophysics
- Information Dynamics: Rockhounds
- (Schlumberger) sci.geology.petroleum: Internet Resources: The most comprehensive link-collection!!!!
- Micha's Wissenspeicher - Geologischer Aufbau der Erde (German)
- Ocean Drilling Stratigraphic Network - Don't miss "plate tectonics"! Calculate paleogeogr. maps of any time and area!
- France: Groupe BRGM au Service de la Terre
- East Yorkshire Coast - Geology and Geomorphology
- Amethyst Galleries: Mineral Gallery - (almost) all minerals of the world, with descriptions, sorted
- Darren's Geology Student Resource Page
- Indonesian Assoc. of Geologists incl. chat room, Resources
- Geologynet: geologynet.com
- The ABCs of Plate Tectonics
- TASA: Earth Exchange - geology media
- Scotese: Paleomap Project - the past 1100 Ma (!)
- Gunnar's Geology Links
- Irmund Thum's geology links
- Geospace Austria: Satellite image products and remote sensing services
- Kansas Academy of Science
- Iverson Software: Geological Dictionary
- Ken Lazara's Geology Major Photography Page
- Mineral Cleaning for Amateurs
- Welcome to Puzzles of the Earth
- Waterloo Hydrogeologic Inc.: The Groundwater Specialists
- Geoteach: Earth Science Resources for Geology and Geography Teaching
- Dinosauria: Geologic Ages of Earth History
- Dinosauria: Palaeogeographic Maps of the Earth
- Dinodata: Earth History Maps by Jan Golonka
- T-Online: The wonderful world of geology, by Alan Johnson (partly in German) - with nice rock images!
- Planetside: TerraGen - a fantastic landscape generator (free!)
- Natural Graphics: Natural Scene Designer - ditto
- Haneberg Geoscience: Geosaurus: the internet's premier geology resource
- Michael Berndt's Geologie-Paläontologie-Seite - mit Lexika!
- Hershel Friedman: The mineral and gemstone kingdom
- WT.net: Mineralogy Database
- The Fossil Company
- Zoological Record Taxonomy Hierarchy
- Collecting Fossils in California
- Boggy's Geology & Palaeontology Links
- B.Granier: Early Cretaceous Tethyan Stratigraphy
- B.Langellier: Stratotypes
- F.Dietz: Glossary Links (mainly scientific or technical)
- Chemical Abstracts Service: Geological Materials
- Geomorfologia
- Adam's Mineral Gallery
- Min-Max Mineralien Informationssystem
- Bora: History of the Earth
- Webelements: Periodic Table of the Elements
- Connecticut Plastics: Chemistry resources on the web
- Structural Geology in Italian Alps
- Maurice Gidon: Geol-Alp - comprehensive documentation of the French Alps, including very clear pictures
- Jan's minerals and fossils pages (German)
- O.Dillmann: Geoscientific Service - with information about German geology (German)
- Skye Data: Geology of Skye
- Barry G. Sutton: Paleontology and Geology of Missouri - comprehensive paleontological and geological documentation of local outcrops
- Martin Schuster: Geologie-Links Deutschland (German)
- Abraxas Verlag: Große Enzyklopädie der Steine - the world's biggest stone database (German)
- OZ-Greetings (Klaus Jaritz): Geology Australia - Why the land looks like it does
- Mountains of the World (German)
Newsgroups, Mailing Lists, Chatting, Fora,...:
- Geology
- Mineralogy
- Oceanography
- Petroleum
- Paleontology
- Tutoraid - Mailing Lists
- Exploration & production geology by W.v.Strien, Netherlands
- Belgian Geology Forum
- BelGeol Geology Chat Login
Online maps
- Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen (A): Austriamap Online up to 1:50.000!
- Lycos: International Maps - online road maps worldwide!
- Lycos GB: Lycos Maps Channel for UK - online, scale down to 1:50.000 !
- Esri: ARC Data
- AutoDesk: MapGuide
- Mapquest: Mapquest
- Microsoft: Expedia Maps
- Microsoft: Terraserver - aero-/ satellite images of the world (only parts of it available yet, but very good resolution; you'll probably find your house!!!)
- Fourmilab: Earth and moon viewer - including satellite images
- Univ. of Texas: PCL Map Collection
- Univ. of California, St.Barbara: Alexandria Digital Library Geospatial Network
Order maps
- www.cartographic.com - order maps of all kinds all over the world!
Non-geological links
- The Useless Pages - collection of VERY strange web sites...
- Link Everything Online: nearly ALL pop songs with lyrics and guitar chords...!!!!
- Altavista Search Engine
- Yahoo! Search Engine
- Google Search Engine
- Carl "Calle" Rosenberg: Global Gazetteer - List of uncountable Locations including map, coordinates and current weather (!!!)

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Last modified: Oct 1, 2010