Resource Repositories
https://micromyearth.com/ An amazing website housing a whole range of webinars, fieldtrips, fossils and thin sections!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1-R6THvCIcAjGrWRspCN915SIzItdZ95ziwiF8BmQrYc/htmlview# :A mega spreadsheet with tonnes of shared resources inside. Thanks to Julie Libarkin for starting it, and Dr. Kirstie Wright for flagging it to us.
https://serc.carleton.edu/teachearth/teach_geo_online/index.html: A hub of teaching resources from SERC
https://www.northseacore.co.uk/data : The fab team at North Sea Core have created a list of useful data repositories
https://www.e-rock.co.uk/: e-Rock is a virtual geology project led by Clare Bond and Adam Cawood at the University of Aberdeen. It contains virtual fieldtrips, outcrop and hand sample photos.
Virtual Models/Outcrops
https://v3geo.com/: Over 100 virtual outcrops from classic fieldsites all over the world, including the UK, Spain, and the USA.
https://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/virtual-landscapes/: Virtual landscapes resource from the University of Leeds
https://sketchfab.com/tags/geology: Virtual geology 3D models
Outcropedia: The online public database of the best outcrops in the world.
Virtual Core
https://www.northseacore.co.uk/: Virtual core and imagery
http://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=resource&bcsId=9970&itemId=1118865499&resourceId=39744: Core photos from Ainsa, Pyrenees
Gigapans and high resolution imagery
http://www.gigapan.com/profiles/callanbentley: Gigapan images: Some of @callanbentley’s zoomable outcrop and microscope shots. Includes Iceland, N. Ireland, Scotland, Scablands, and S. Africa.
Virtual hand specimens/thin sections
https://www.virtualmicroscope.org/: The awesome virtual microscope from the Open University
https://www.zeiss.com/microscopy/int/cmp/rwm/20/zeiss-axio-scan-digital-archive.html Zeiss digital archive
http://www.alexstrekeisen.it/english/: An incredible resource from Alex Streikesen- all images are free to use, you just need to cite the source
Virtual Rock Kit: A database of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks, including exposures, hand specimens and thin section imagery, from the Earth Science Education Unit
Virtual sand: This Excel file contains links to 150 gigapan images of sand samples. Students can zoom in to microscope level of magnification. Contains international examples. Courtesy of @callanbentley
Virtual fossils
https://www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/vc/: Virtual fossils: Interactive 3D models of fossil specimens from collections of Paleontological Research Institution.
http://www.virtualfossils.com/: Fabulous 3D models of a range of fossils
https://paleobiodb.org/#/:The Paleobiology Database
https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/collection-specimens: Digitised specimen records from the Natural History Museum London
Geohazards
https://seismic-explorer.concord.org/: Seismic Explorer: Interactive earthquake map.
https://volcano.si.edu/: Smithsonian Institute Global Volcanism Program
Geoscience e-game
HEA-funded forensic geoscience egame from Jamie Pringle and colleagues:
Link to the game (play in chrome, Unity WebGL Player plugin extension should automatically download )
Link to the case study the game is based on
Email Jamie at j.k.pringle@keele.ac.uk for a powerpoint game explainer!
Useful software for virtual geology
Creating Virtual Tours in Google Earth
Online virtual fieldtrip resources (various levels)
https://figshare.com/articles/roda_sst_exercise/12202847: An example day of Imperial College’s MSc. virtual fieldtrip to the Pyrenees
http://www.visualisation.southampton.ac.uk/:Virtual fieldtrips from the University of Southampton
https://www.sciencefriday.com/educational-resources/360-degree-expedition/: Virtual field trip to the the Columns of the Giants, California.
https://vft.asu.edu/#: Arizona State University provide a range of virtual interactive fieldtrips all over the world, from Utah to Australia
https://ags-aer.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=c4c7feb1cc154432acf3bd3841ec4af8: ArcGIS StoryMap-based tour of Alberta’s geology from the Alberta Geological Survey.
Online geochemistry data:
Georoc: http://georoc.mpch-mainz.gwdg.de/georoc/
Earthchem: http://www.earthchem.org