NASA Earth Science
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NASA's portal for its Earth-observing program, with mission pages, satellite imagery, and explainers on the atmosphere, oceans, ice, and land. Useful for seeing how Earth systems are actually measured from orbit and what the data show.
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Physical Geology 2nd Edition
Steven Earle's openly licensed university textbook, published by BCcampus. Covers minerals, plate tectonics, igneous and sedimentary processes, structural geology, and geologic time, with review questions and exercises. Suitable as a full first-year physical geology course.
Open Geology Textbook
A free, comprehensive open-access textbook covering the fundamentals of physical geology, including minerals, rocks, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, and surface processes. Suitable for introductory college-level coursework with figures, diagrams, and review questions throughout.
USGS Earth Science Resources
U.S. Geological Survey hub of free educational materials, including maps, lesson plans, videos, and data activities on earthquakes, volcanoes, water, minerals, and landscapes. Useful for grounding introductory Earth science concepts in real government monitoring data.
Planet Earth...and You!
Earthquakes, volcanoes, mountain building, ice ages, landslides, floods, life evolution, plate motions—all of these phenomena have interacted over the vast expanses of deep time to sculpt the dynamic planet that we live on today. Planet Earth presents an overview of several aspects of our home, from a geological perspective. We begin with earthquakes—what they are, what causes them, what effects they have, and what we can do about them. We will emphasize that plate tectonics—the grand unifying theory of geology—explains how the map of our planet's surface has changed radically over geologic time, and why present-day geologic activity—including a variety of devastating natural disasters such as earthquakes—occur where they do. We consider volcanoes, types of eruptions, and typical rocks found there. Finally, we will delve into the processes that produce the energy and mineral resources that modern society depends on, to help understand the context of the environment and sustainability challenges that we will face in the future.
Geology Bites
What moves the continents, creates mountains, swallows up the sea floor, makes volcanoes erupt, triggers earthquakes, and imprints ancient climates into the rocks? Oliver Strimpel, a former astrophysicist and museum director asks leading researchers to divulge what they have discovered and how they did it. To learn more about the series, and see images that support the podcasts, go to geologybites.com. Instagram: @GeologyBites Bluesky: GeologyBites X: @geology_bites Email: geologybitespodcast@gmail.com
Earth Science
Survey textbook spanning the four traditional areas: geology, oceanography, meteorology, and astronomy. Written for non-majors, it gives a broad orientation to how the solid Earth, oceans, atmosphere, and near space interact, before any specialization.