Earth Science: Rock/Crystal/Mineral Resources ; Mountain Formation

National Geographic Classroom Resources (grades 7-12+)

An Idaho Museum of Natural History resource

A Geological Society of London resource

USGS resource. Rhyolite is a volcanic rock

A Univ. of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences web resource, this is a searchable database of photographs and information about minerals and gemstones.

Imperial College, London

Youcanscience.org

From the website: "Mindat.org is the largest mineral database and mineralogy reference website on the internet. This site contains worldwide data on minerals, mineral collecting, mineral localities and other mineralogical information."

Minerals Education Coalition

This is a commercial site that contains images and descriptions of tumbled stones.

App Produced by the UW Macrostrat Lab, Funded by NSF and UW Geoscience

A commercial website, this contains images of rocks

By Warren Hamilton and W. Bradley Myers, Shorter Contributions to General Geology, Geological Survey Professional Paper 554-C (1967). This contains information about St. Francois Mountains, MO

A HyperPhysics resource of Georgia State University

"Destroys the myth of the mountain as a solid, permanent structure. Animations are used to illustrate the process of orogeny (mountain building) through accretion and erosion, as well as the role of plate tectonics, the rock cycle, and how different types of rock are formed in the course of mountain building."-- catalog description

Universe Today article by by Fraser Cain

" We think of mountains as eternal, but they are evidence of our planet's surface bending and buckling like cardboard. Examining Earth's mountain-building processes in detail, this program also studies the weathering, erosion, and mass wasting by which mountains are worn down. Viewers gain insight into the basic factors that underlie volcanic activity, the various types of geological faults, and the tectonic processes in which oceanic and lithospheric plates collide, separate, or slip past each other, resulting in dramatic physical changes. Eye-catching graphics as well as live-action footage from the Alps, Andes, Cascades, Rockies, and Himalayas help illustrate concepts." -- catalog description

Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources, Geological Survey and Resource Assessment Div. fact sheet number 12

Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources

A USGS publication

A Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources, Geological Survey Program resource

Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geology and Land Survey fact sheet 23