The Web for Earth Sciences Information
From: Phillip Ingram (pingram@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au)
This file was last updated on 4th July, 1995.
Using The Web for Earth Sciences
Information on the Internet
You can obtain the most recent version of this faq from:
- i) the sci.answers, comp.answers or news.answers news group.
- ii) send mail to: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the following line in the body of the message - send
usenet/news.answers/geology-faq/geosci-resources/part1
- iii) by anonymous ftp to: rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/sci.geo.geology
When I remember I place the most upto date copies of the faq in the following anon ftp site:
- ftp://wombat.es.mq.edu.au/public/faqs
and get the files part1.faq and part2.faq. As soon as you log in you are placed in c:\public. (Its only a pc running KA9Q
NOS).
I also keep two web pages, which are basically the same as the info on the faq, but with more info. Try:
- The Virtual Earth: http://wombat.es.mq.edu.au/0c:/v_earth.htm|/
- The Soft Earth: http://wombat.es.mq.edu.au/0c:/s_earth.htm|/
Note the htm|, the | is NOT an 'el' but a vertical line, a quirk of the server software.
This faq is not to be used for commercial gain.
There is an increasing amount of geosciences information available on the Internet, and more is becoming available every
day. Having the ability to search out this information is probably more useful than a list of Earth Sciences sites.
The World Wide Web, with Web browsers such as Mosaic and Netscape, have become the default standard in cruising the
internet. The WWW protocol can access other internet protocols such as telnet, ftp and gopher, and implement and access
facilities such as mail and UseNet News.
What follows are starting points for internet exploration with a Web browser for the Earth Sciences. Included is general
Web information, Web Indexes for the Earth Sciences, Searches (Robots, Crawlers, Worms etc), the USGS Web site, and
other special Earth Sciences connections and sites of related interest.
0. CONTENTS
- 0.1 General Web Information
- 0.2 The USGS Web Sites
- 0.3 Subject Indexes
- 0.3a Web Indexes for Earth Sciences
- 0.3b Gopher Subject Trees
- 0.4 Searches
- 0.4a WWW Searches (Robots, Worms, Crawlers, Spiders etc)
- 0.4b Gopher Jughead Searches
- 0.4c Gopher Veronica Searches
- 0.4d Gopher WAIS Searches
- 0.5 Special Earth Sciences Connections
- 0.6 Sites of Related Interest
- 0.6a Environmental Sites
- 0.6b GIS, Satellite and Mapping Sites
- 0.6c Oceangography Sites
- 0.6d Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs)
- 0.6e Other Sites
- 0.7 HTML-ised Resource Guides and FAQ's
- 0.8 Announcements, New Sites, FAQs and News Groups
- 0.9 Listservs and Listserv Information
- 0.10 Library Servers
- 0.11 Commercial Organisations
- 0.11a Mining/Exploration Information and Newspapers
- 0.11b Mapping and GIS
- 0.11c Geology Information
- 0.12 Information on Bulletin Boards
- 0.13 Journals and Bulletins
- 0.14 Electronic Preprints and Supplements
- 0.15 Geological Surveys and Organisations
0. CONTENTS
- 0.1 General Software Sites and Registers
- 0.2 Geology
- 0.2.1 Mineralogy/Petrology
- 0.2.2 Structural Geology
- 0.2.3 Marine Geology
- 0.2.4 Hydrology
- 0.2.5 Sedimentary Geology
- 0.3 Geophysics
- 0.4 Oceanography
- 0.5 Mathematical/Statistics/Geostatistics
- 0.6 GIS and Mapping
- 0.6.1 General GIS/Mapping
- 0.6.2 Cartographic Conversions and Transformations
- 0.6.3 Arc/Info AML Code
- 0.6.4 Digital Elevation Models (DEMs)
- 0.6.5 Specialised GIS/Mapping Techniques
- 0.7 Map Data
- 0.8 Graphing/Plotting
- 0.9 Commercial Developers
Transmitted and edited by Zbigniew Zwolinski (zbzw@hum.amu.edu.pl)