(PRWEB) August 22, 2005
As the back-to-school season commences, Geology.com (http://www.geology.com) announces that it has a variety of new resources as properly as updated resources to serve teachers and students of geology and earth science.
The site's most well-liked capabilities, the Geology Dictionary and the Geologic Time Scale, have been completely updated and enhanced. Brand new to the website are the Mineral Identification Chart and the Landsat Satellite Image Tutorial. The website also includes vast collections of links to the greatest geology and earth science internet sites across the Internet.
The Geology Dictionary (http://geology.com/geology-dictionary.shtml) offers definitions for over 500 of the most commonly utilized terms in geology, hydrology and earth science. "The significant benefit of this feature is that students don't need to obtain a geology dictionary for a 1-semester course because they now have easy access to one on the Internet," says Geology.com owner Hobart King.
The Geologic Time Scale (http://geology.com/time.htm) covers the full 4.6 billion years of geologic time and can be downloaded for printing as a Microsoft Word file. Teachers can download and print for distribution in their classroom. "The Geologic Time Scale is especially helpful because it is a Word document, which indicates teachers can easily revise it so that it is suitable for their curriculum wants," King says.
A new feature to the internet site, the Mineral Identification Chart (http://geology.com/minerals/mineral-identification.shtml) is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that students or teachers can print for use in the laboratory. For teachers, the most important feature of this resource is that it can quickly be modified or expanded (like the Geologic Time Scale) to suit their teaching style or customized for the mineral specimens obtainable in their classroom.
Also new to the internet site is the Landsat Satellite Image Tutorial (http://geology.com/satellite/), which explains how to interpret Landsat images in terms a beginner would recognize the tutorial also provides several images as examples. This tutorial pairs with a collection of Landsat images for all 50 states and detailed satellite images of practically 100 of the most populous cities in the United States.
Most essential is Geology.com's large collection of links to the best geology and earth science Web internet sites on a variety of topics, including: astronomy, astrology, earthquakes, energy, floods, geology jobs and careers, maps, satellite images, mineralogy, plate tectonics, petroleum, paleontology, geology tools and software program, tsunamis, volcanoes and a lot far more.
About Geology.com:
Geology.com serves as a portal to geology and earth science info across the Web. It gives resources for understanding about geology and is visited by over 100,000 teachers, students and geologists each month.
For a lot more information, pay a visit to http://www.geology.com
Contact:
Hobart King
Geology.com
570-724-4728
http://geology.com
hobart@geology.com
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