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Subject: UPDATE: Ottawa '97 Abstract Submission Now On-line !!! -- From: ottawa97@NRCan.gc.ca (Ottawa '97 GAC-MAC Conference)
Subject: Re: Expanding earth theory -- From: gerard@hawaii.edu (Gerard Fryer)
Subject: Re: GMT listserver? -- From: gerard@hawaii.edu (Gerard Fryer)
Subject: Re: What is the gravitational force in the center of the Earth? -- From: gerard@hawaii.edu (Gerard Fryer)
Subject: Re: Coriolis effect and creeper plants -- From: dewhurst@wave.co.nz (Roger Dewhurst)
Subject: Re: Creation VS Evolution -- From: Elmer Bataitis <"nylicens@frontiernet.net/nylicence"@aol.com>
Subject: Glossary of Sequence Stratigraphy -- From: "Joe Davis"
Subject: Re: Creation VS Evolution -- From: Jerry
Subject: Re: Earth Expansion -- From: karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish)
Subject: Re: Creation VS Evolution -- From: Elmer Bataitis <"nylicens@frontiernet.net/nylicence"@aol.com>
Subject: Re: What is the gravitational force in the center of the Earth? -- From: ba137@lafn.org (Brian Hutchings)
Subject: Re: Supernova coming in Dec. -- From: ba137@lafn.org (Brian Hutchings)
Subject: Re: What is the gravitational force in the center of the Earth? -- From: hatunen@netcom.com (DaveHatunen)
Subject: Re: Creation VS Evolution -- From: singtech@teleport.com (Charles Cagle)
Subject: Re: What is the gravitational force in the center of the Earth? -- From: gerard@hawaii.edu (Gerard Fryer)
Subject: Earth Expansion Physics - Metaphor -- From: singtech@teleport.com (Charles Cagle)
Subject: Re: SUPERNOVA ON THE WAY FOR DECEMBER -- From: David Nobes
Subject: Re: Earthquake in SW England? -- From: e_rmwm@va.nmh.ac.uk (Roger Musson)
Subject: New book published: British radioactive waste disposal -- From: Chris McKeown
Subject: Using the Web for Geosciences Resources (FAQ) part1/2 -- From: pingram@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au (Phil Ingram)
Subject: Using the Web for Geoscience Resources (FAQ) part2/2 -- From: pingram@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au (Phil Ingram)

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Subject: UPDATE: Ottawa '97 Abstract Submission Now On-line !!!
From: ottawa97@NRCan.gc.ca (Ottawa '97 GAC-MAC Conference)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 19:42:32 GMT
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Subject: Re: Expanding earth theory
From: gerard@hawaii.edu (Gerard Fryer)
Date: 15 Nov 1996 19:04:44 GMT
In article <01bbd2eb$463a6440$LocalHost@louis>, "Louis Hissink"  writes:
>Gerard Fryer  wrote in article
><56du23$pag@news.Hawaii.Edu>...
[...]
>> As for departures from a dipole field, paleomagneticians are forced
>> into this only during polarity reversals (and only then when time
>> sampling is dense enough to catch a reversal in action).
>HuH ?, 
>Your last para ..., suggests that paleomagneticians
>are restricted to actual pole reverals to get the data ? I hope this post
>was rhetorical.
All I was getting at was that if you simply assume a dipole field you
can normally come up with solutions consistent from site to site; any
systematic differences presumably being the result of plate tectonics.
If you are lucky enough to sample through a reversal, however, the pole
positions seem to bounce around. If you further compare the paleopole
path with one deduced from the same reversal elsewhere it is tough to
find consistency. It looks like the simple-minded assumption of a
dipole breaks down. I think Fuller's paper in the current Am. Scientist addresses this, but I haven't read it yet.
>I add that I just returned back from the field, and was astounded to see
>that the present thread is alive and well.
Actually, the thread took a vacation. It has only just returned.
-- 
Gerard Fryer      
gerard@hawaii.edu        http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/~gerard/
Personal views only.
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Subject: Re: GMT listserver?
From: gerard@hawaii.edu (Gerard Fryer)
Date: 15 Nov 1996 21:07:21 GMT
In article <328C7122.6B29@geomar.de>, Frank Lindemann  writes:
>In order to subscribe to the gmthelp-listserver, I am searching for the
>correct e-mail adress for gmthelp. The following adress is printed in
>the cookbook: gmthelp@soest.hawaii.edu. After sending a command to this
>adress, the mail returns with the massage 'host unknown'. Does anybody
>has the correct adress, or could the server be down??
The server is up. To get on the gmthelp list, send the message
subscribe gmthelp 
to listserver@soest.hawaii.edu
 should truly be your name, not your e-mail address.
-- 
Gerard Fryer      
gerard@hawaii.edu        http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/~gerard/
Personal views only.
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Subject: Re: What is the gravitational force in the center of the Earth?
From: gerard@hawaii.edu (Gerard Fryer)
Date: 15 Nov 1996 21:56:03 GMT
In article , hatunen@netcom.com (DaveHatunen) writes:
>In article <56gedq$oeo@news.hawaii.edu>,
>Gerard Fryer  wrote:
[...]
>> In fact mass is concentrated in the core
>>of the Earth, so the way g varies with depth is to stay pretty constant
>>with depth until you start to get near the bottom of the mantle, then g
>>rises to a maximum of about 11m/(s**2) at the core-mantle-boundary.
>>Below that g decreases almost linearly to zero at the Earth's center.
>
>Sorry , but no. The value of g at any internal radius will always be
>equal to the gravity of the hypothetical geoid below that radius; since
>the mass of this geoid increases with r, the value of g also
>continuosly increases.
I must disagree. If g(r) depends only on the mass below radius r, then
you are talking of a Bouguer-corrected gravity rather than a raw
gravity. Even then you have ignored the free-air effect (the closer you
are to a mass the greater its attraction). After all, as you climb
upwards from Earth the mass below you is increasing because more and
more of the atmosphere is below you, yet gravity is decreasing. The
huge density contrast between the solid Earth and the atmosphere means
that g is higher at the surface of the Earth than it is at the outer
edge of the atmosphere. Similarly, the huge density contrast between
the core and the mantle means that g is higher at the core-mantle
boundary than it is at the surface of the Earth.
-- 
Gerard Fryer      
gerard@hawaii.edu        http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/~gerard/
Personal views only.
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Subject: Re: Coriolis effect and creeper plants
From: dewhurst@wave.co.nz (Roger Dewhurst)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 20:09:21 GMT
In article  kjells@ibg.uit.no (Kjell T Svindland) writes:
>From: kjells@ibg.uit.no (Kjell T Svindland)
>Subject: Re: Coriolis effect and creeper plants
>Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 09:42:49 +0100
>>                   But what made me wonder was the fact that all the 
>> different  species I found were climbing in the same anticlockwise 
>> direction.  
>Maybe they grow so fast, that trying to face the sun going across the sky
>every day make them twirl? ;-)
Yes, that IS the most logical explanation.  Plants DO grow towards the light.
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Subject: Re: Creation VS Evolution
From: Elmer Bataitis <"nylicens@frontiernet.net/nylicence"@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 18:47:41 -0500
Judson McClendon wrote:
> 
> IG (Slim) Simpson wrote:
> > Why quote from a book that , for the most part, I don't accept. If I
> > quote from the Koran (Sp?) will it make any difference to you??
> >
> > Slim
> 
> "For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any
> two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and
> of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of
> the heart." (Hebrews 4:12)
Surah 3: 
2. “Allah. There is no god but He,-the Living, the Self-Subsisting,
Eternal. 
3. It is He Who sent down to thee (step by step), in truth, the Book,
confirming what went before it; and He sent down the Law (of Moses) and
the Gospel (of Jesus) before this, as a guide to mankind, and He sent
down the criterion (of judgment between right and wrong).”
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Subject: Glossary of Sequence Stratigraphy
From: "Joe Davis"
Date: 15 Nov 1996 22:38:10 GMT
I have added a Glossary of Sequence Stratigraphy to my
web site--I hope you find it useful.
 Joseph R. Davis                      email:  Davisexp@ix.netcom.com 
 Davis Exploration Consulting    phone:  214-691-6089           
 Dallas, Texas, USA                 fax:    214-357-3730            
  http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/davisexp/     
        Stratigraphic Seismic Interpretation & Training 
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Subject: Re: Creation VS Evolution
From: Jerry
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 15:50:21 -0500
Judson McClendon wrote:
> 
> Mark & Susan Sampson wrote:
> >
> > Who cares how God created the universe???  All that matters is that he
> > did.  However he accomplished it, is beyond my need to know.  He did
> > that is all that matters.
> 
> If God agreed with that sentiment, why would He have recorded the
> creation account in the Bible?
> --Comments from Jerry:The Biblical writers recorded their understanding of creation in the Bible, not God.
The true understanding from God is found in my book:
"The Natural God of Law, Love, and Truth" Available in paperback by mail for free.
Jerry (Jewish Prophet of an Ethical God) 
> Judson McClendon
> Sun Valley Systems    judsonmc@ix.netcom.com
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Subject: Re: Earth Expansion
From: karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish)
Date: 15 Nov 1996 23:36:34 GMT
In article <01bbd2f4$09f7ab60$LocalHost@louis>,
Louis Hissink  wrote:
>Rather than get involved in semantics, I propose the novel idea that the
>earth's geological history, like human, is non repeatable,  and therefore
>unpredictable. I propose that, assuming arbitrarily, today being time zero,
>and using radiometric dates as means to rank rocks in terms of relative age
>rather than abosolute age, that the earth has. historically, undergone at
>least 3 periods of expansion, each followed by a period of cooling, and
>that at present the earth is in a cooling phase.
>
>That is, the earth is neither expanding uniformly, the Caryiam model, nor
>the steady state model of plate tectonics. I suggest that historically that
>the earth has experienced periods of expansion, followed by periods of
>cooling, all events related to an earth that has, overall, expanded in
>comprehensible history.
>
>This idea, I suspect, is heretical.
Solipsistic, anyway.  You're claiming that geology does not
have an objective basis.
-- 
    Chuck Karish          karish@mindcraft.com
    (415) 323-9000 x117   karish@pangea.stanford.edu
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Subject: Re: Creation VS Evolution
From: Elmer Bataitis <"nylicens@frontiernet.net/nylicence"@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 18:34:20 -0500
Judson McClendon wrote:
> 
> Mark & Susan Sampson wrote:
> >
> > Who cares how God created the universe???  All that matters is that he
> > did.  However he accomplished it, is beyond my need to know.  He did
> > that is all that matters.
> 
> If God agreed with that sentiment, why would He have recorded the
> creation account in the Bible?
Do you think that god lies to us with the *only* true revelation that
*we know* for sure comes directly from him - his universe?
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Subject: Re: What is the gravitational force in the center of the Earth?
From: ba137@lafn.org (Brian Hutchings)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 21:18:57 GMT
oops, no; I was referring to what I think is the usual msupposition,
that the *pressure* increases linearly, as in water, but
I guess that they're related.  is that how the pressure is "measured",
by assuming no other interactions than the piling-up
of particulatons, like oranges?
>In a previous article, kate@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu (Katishna King) says:
>
>>hatunen@netcom.com (DaveHatunen) writes:
>
>>>The gravitaional field inside the earth is linear with respect to
>>>radius, with a zero field at the center and reaching g at the surface.
>
>ah, that's just what I was looking for;
>the assumption is the same as for water!
-- 
You *don't* have to be a rocket scientist.  (College Career Counselor
					     to me, again )
There is no dimension without time.  --RBF (Synergetics, 527.01)
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Subject: Re: Supernova coming in Dec.
From: ba137@lafn.org (Brian Hutchings)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 21:28:45 GMT
In a previous article, Dr.Turi@worldnet.att.net (drturi) says:
thank you, Nostradamocles, for this pungent offering to Vulcan.
>USING NOSTRADAMUS 16TH CENTURY SATANIC ASTROLOGY METHOD----
why don't you continue to post that you got the method
from a non-astrologer, Richter -- or was he ?!?
>This theory is at an early stage and is  EXPERIMENTAL ONLY.
as above, so below, as above, so below, as above, so below ...
I'm starting to realize, every thing really *is* connected;
it's like, the next time I was on acid!
>minimum of 6.0 and well above 7.0  " As above as below", 
>everything is interconnected.  
-- 
You *don't* have to be a rocket scientist.  (College Career Counselor
					     to me, again )
There is no dimension without time.  --RBF (Synergetics, 527.01)
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Subject: Re: What is the gravitational force in the center of the Earth?
From: hatunen@netcom.com (DaveHatunen)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 23:50:33 GMT
In article <56iotj$c6q@news.hawaii.edu>,
Gerard Fryer  wrote:
>
>In article , hatunen@netcom.com (DaveHatunen) writes:
>>In article <56gedq$oeo@news.hawaii.edu>,
>>Gerard Fryer  wrote:
>[...]
>>> In fact mass is concentrated in the core
>>>of the Earth, so the way g varies with depth is to stay pretty constant
>>>with depth until you start to get near the bottom of the mantle, then g
>>>rises to a maximum of about 11m/(s**2) at the core-mantle-boundary.
>>>Below that g decreases almost linearly to zero at the Earth's center.
>>
>>Sorry , but no. The value of g at any internal radius will always be
>>equal to the gravity of the hypothetical geoid below that radius; since
>>the mass of this geoid increases with r, the value of g also
>>continuosly increases.
>
>I must disagree. If g(r) depends only on the mass below radius r, then
>you are talking of a Bouguer-corrected gravity rather than a raw
>gravity. Even then you have ignored the free-air effect (the closer you
>are to a mass the greater its attraction). After all, as you climb
>upwards from Earth the mass below you is increasing because more and
>more of the atmosphere is below you, yet gravity is decreasing. The
>huge density contrast between the solid Earth and the atmosphere means
>that g is higher at the surface of the Earth than it is at the outer
>edge of the atmosphere. Similarly, the huge density contrast between
>the core and the mantle means that g is higher at the core-mantle
>boundary than it is at the surface of the Earth.
I see what you're getting at. Should be an easy calculation to
demonstrate.
What is the ratio of density of the core and mantle? For earth to air
at the earth's surface it is roughly on the order of 3 kg/liter to 1.29
gm/liter or over 2000:1.
-- 
    ********** DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen@netcom.com) **********
    *               Daly City California                  *
    *   Between San Francisco and South San Francisco     *
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Subject: Re: Creation VS Evolution
From: singtech@teleport.com (Charles Cagle)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 17:15:00 -0800
In article <19961112234900.SAA06834@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
jswitz322@aol.com wrote:
>the notion of god is a man-made invention to explain earthquakes, volcano
>eruptions, lightning, and other scary natural phenomena.  also, religion
>was created as a framework in which to justify morals, ie do not kill
>because god says so, respect your parent because jesus will reward you,
>etc.  if your values and morals are solely derived from the bible or
>organized religion, you are in trouble.  let me pose this question:  if
>there were no bible and no ten commandments, would you go on a killing
>spree or slap around your mother?  i think not.  the biblical story of
>creation is a fable, and threats of hell are meant to keep little boys
>from masturbating.  
>christianity goes hand-in-hand with captalism: jesus died for your sins so
>you are now free to exploit the poor and powerless, pollute, and play
>golf, then go to church on sunday and sing jesus' praise for his sacrfice,
>and merely ask for absolution for your sins.  voila!  you're scot free.
Here's an example of a fellow filled with his own wisdom.
>i am not an atheist.  i believe in an omnipresent force that is mother
>nature. 
That's right.  You are neither hot nor cold.   Your knees knock together
for lack of confidence in your position.  If you were ardent either way
you would at least have faith and be pleasing to God and would only lack
education to enlighten you.  But instead you are hedging your bets.
 >those of you who cling to organized religion and feel the need to
>convert others need to re-evaluate their security blanket and take the
>open their minds to more worldly points of view.
We should all open our hearts to the truth but not our minds to such
sophistries as you endorse.
-- 
C. Cagle
SingTech
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Subject: Re: What is the gravitational force in the center of the Earth?
From: gerard@hawaii.edu (Gerard Fryer)
Date: 16 Nov 1996 01:10:48 GMT
In article , hatunen@netcom.com (DaveHatunen) writes:
[...]
>
>What is the ratio of density of the core and mantle? For earth to air
>at the earth's surface it is roughly on the order of 3 kg/liter to 1.29
>gm/liter or over 2000:1.
For the purposes of this argument, you could probably just use an
average mantle density of 5kg/liter and an average core density of
11kg/liter.  I toyed with the idea of writing a Matlab script to solve
for g(r) for a simple two-layer Earth, but instead I cheated: I looked
in Bullen's swan song "The Earth's Density," and poked around to Fig
16.2 where g(r) is plotted against r (there is an equivalent figure in
many geophysics texts). Anderson's "Theory of the Earth" doesn't have a
figure, but the parametric reference Earth model, together with derived
functions (including gravity) is listed in Table A-1.
-- 
Gerard Fryer      
gerard@hawaii.edu        http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/~gerard/
Personal views only.
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Subject: Earth Expansion Physics - Metaphor
From: singtech@teleport.com (Charles Cagle)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 16:01:32 -0800
Greetings sci.geo.geology regulars and guests:
    If we could agree to eliminate the flames and personal attacks,
perhaps we could get down to the business of outlining the actual physics
behind earth expansion.  In the area of civility I haven't been blameless
myself.  On the other hand I decry a lock step mentality which in essence
says arrogantly in false confidence: "I have the truth and am quite
pleased with it and it would be ridiculous for me to seriously entertain
any other ideas".  It is this attitude which compels those who are opposed
to earth expansion to insult those who would like to present ideas to the
contrary. 
    Those who are arrogant for the current paradigm's (subduction
modeling) sake and like to toss insults at those who might like to explore
the expansion hypothesis become my favorite targets.  Let's call a truce
and refrain from invectives and insults for a season and consider the idea
that at the heart of expansion must lie a new formulation of fundamental
physics.   If the earth has expanded significantly over geologic time,
then the argument is offered that such expansion corroborates the premise
that some unknown physical processes are at work. 
    I will offer that I can present the outline for that new physics and
show new ideas and concepts which are revolutionary in scope.  Some of the
evidence is experimental and some comes from events which while recorded
in reputable journals are anecdotal and some of the evidence is in the
form of pure data much of which appears anomalous and finds no easy fit in
current paradigm's which hold to subduction and constant planetary radius
ideas. 
      The metaphor for Truth
    However, this anomalous data, quite nicely, if taken as an overall set
of data finds a comfortable home where it is welcomed with open arms and
given a place to sit down in honor in the expansion model but where in the
subduction model when it appeared at the door was not so much as offered a
seat.  It is greeted at the door alright but is required to stand in the
foyer because the servants of the house while recognizing the validity of
the claim and documentation of the newcomer as a rightful heir to a place
in the household can find no furniture which fits this heir.  This
demonstrates that the house is not in order.  
   Now if this new model is the rightful heir in the house of physics then
it is the rightful heir in the houses of geology, and cosmology as well. 
What should be the due reward of those servants who have been unprepared
to welcome the rightful heir and have fought against and many times
plotted and tried to kill the heir and his prophets?  Should not they be
cast out of those houses with great violence and thrust into everlasting
shame because they were in constant rebellion against the truth?
   I believe this metaphor is an apt description and entirely appropriate
for the houses of physics and geology and cosmology as they stand today.
   I will gladly construct a web site with graphics and physics which will
present not only a new foundation for physics but will also show the
mechanisms for planetary creation and subsequent physical growth.   Before
I invest in such an enterprise I would like to see how many people would
like to see and perhaps even participate in such an undertaking.  If you
have such an interest please email me with a brief background of yourself
along with details of why you are interested and how you might like to
participate at:
singtech@teleport.com
-- 
Noori Ford
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Subject: Re: SUPERNOVA ON THE WAY FOR DECEMBER
From: David Nobes
Date: 16 Nov 1996 03:06:34 GMT
Of course, we won't be able to see it (and thus confirm it) for, oh,
let's say 10 or 20 million years.
:-)
DCN
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Subject: Re: Earthquake in SW England?
From: e_rmwm@va.nmh.ac.uk (Roger Musson)
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 12:12:58
In article <567ffk$2mre@mail1.wg.waii.com> David Frost  writes:
>From: David Frost 
>Subject: Re: Earthquake in SW England?
>Date: 11 Nov 1996 15:07:32 GMT
>ac940@0.0.0.0 (harden) wrote:
>>Does anyone know anything about an earthquake that was supposed to have
>>taken place in the UK this morning?
>>
>>Sheila
>Hi Sheila,
>The only info I have is what I got from the news,
>apparently it measured 3.8 on the Richter scale, and was located somewhere 
>to the south-west of Penzance. It was felt as far away as Bristol and was 
>the largest earthquake/tremor recorded in Britain for some time.
>That's all I know, but maybe someone out there has a little more info.
>Have you tried enquiring at the BGS, or try asking over in sci.geo.earthquakes.
>Hope this is some help
>David
>*************************************
>david.frost@wg.waii.com
>My opinions only.
>*************************************
Well, largest since the Norwich eq in 1994. I see Ian Stimpson has kindly put 
up the details of the Penzance eq so I don't need to. 
http://www.gsrg.nmh.ac.uk/gsrg.html is a good URL to remember for all things 
relating to British eqs.
Incidentally, I'm surprised this thread didn't go to sci.geo.earthquakes - but 
no matter.
Roger Musson
British Geological Survey
e_rmwm@va.nmh.ac.uk 
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Subject: New book published: British radioactive waste disposal
From: Chris McKeown
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 13:32:58 +0000
Radioactive waste disposal at Sellafield UK:
site-selection, geological and engineering problems
R S Haszeldine & D K Smythe (editors)
University of Glasgow 1996,  Soft cover, 520pp. incl 50 Figures.
Index, Key point summaries, Overview.
uk 12 pounds (personal); uk 60 pounds (industry) incl
European post & pack
ISBN  0 85261 524 -8
Orders to:-
Geology and Applied Geology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ,
Scotland
E mail  
For the first time, the nuclear waste disposal industry in Britain has
been challenged on its scientific concepts, and detailed results.  A
group of independent scientists and engineers came together in 1995-6,
to demonstrate that proposals to "go underground at Sellafield" were
ill-thought out, flawed and premature.  This book brings together the
detailed legal Proofs of Evidence presented by fourteen Expert
Witnesses at the Planning Inquiry into UK Nirex's appeal for planning
permission to develop a "Rock Characterisation Facility" beneath
Longlands Farm, near Sellafield, West Cumbria in the UK.  This
underground
laboratory is proposed to be the final confirmatory phase
of site investigation, before construction of a Britain's first
full-scale
radioactive waste repository.
Issues addressed by the evidence are the method for choosing the site,
the geochemical and fluid-flow suitability of the site, the geological
structure of the site, the possibility of modern earthquake activity at
the site, the role of computer modelling in predicting fluid flow and
making a safety case, the timescale of investigations to date, the
quality of the investigations, and the role for the proposed
underground laboratory.  These Experts were acting on behalf of the
Objectors:-  Cumbria County Council, Greenpeace Ltd, and Friends of the
Earth Ltd.
The scientific Proofs are accompanied by an outline of the three
Objectors' philosophies and legal cases.  This highlights the
complementary approaches to planning legislation adopted by each
Objector.  The final summing-up of each case by the Objectors'
barristers is also included.  The book has a full Index, and key points
of each scientific Proof are abstracted.  The book acts a unique
reference compendium, and records part of Britain's most extensive
Planning Inquiries.  The scientific problems are now easily accessible
both for public debate, and to inform future research.
-- 
                               Chris McKeown 
     Geology & Applied Geology, Glasgow University, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK 
               Tel: 44-(0)141-330-5469, Fax: 44-(0)141-330-4817
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Subject: Using the Web for Geosciences Resources (FAQ) part1/2
From: pingram@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au (Phil Ingram)
Date: 12 Nov 1996 07:35:11 +1100
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Archive-name: geology-faq/geosci-resources/part1
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Last-modified: 1996/10/31
Using The Web for Earth Sciences Information on the Internet
Part 1: Sites, Registers, Searches and Data
This file was last updated on 31st October, 1996.
This faq is posted to the following news groups:
sci.geo.geology
sci.geo.hydrology
sci.geo.oceanography
comp.infosystems.gis
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/news.answers/geology-faq/geosci-resources/part1
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://atlas.es.mq.edu.au/users/pingram/v_earth.html
The Soft Earth:    http://atlas.es.mq.edu.au/users/pingram/s_earth.html
This faq is not to be used for commercial gain.
Phillip Ingram
pingram@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au
http://atlas.es.mq.edu.au/users/pingram/pingram.html
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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.
Part 2 of this FAQ contains resources for software and software sites.
Just as the Web has become the default standard for navigating the
internet, the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) has become the standard
method of specifying a particular object on the internet. A URL has
the general form of:
        protocol://host.domain:port-number/dir/subdir/file
where:  protocol is the type of server to be accessed, such as http,
        gopher, telnet, ftp, news; or service to be implemented such as
        mailto.
        host.domain is the host servers name and domain.
        port-number is the port in which the server is configured to listen
        for requests. If using the protocols default port this entry is not
        necessary. HTTP servers listen, by default, on port 80, gopher
        servers on port 70, telnet on port 23.
        dir/subdir/file is the path and file which is to be accessed. If
        omitted, the default root entry, if applicable, will be accessed.
Modifications of the above are necessary for mailto, news and telnet. Gopher
URLs can appear complicated as Hexadecimal equivalents need to be substituted
for some Ascii characters.
Your web browser needs to be configured to access a News and Mail server
for these two functions to work.
Examples include:
        http://host.domain:80/dir/subdir/html-file
        http://info.cern.ch/default.html
        gopher://host.domain:70/
        gopher://wombat.es.mq.edu.au
        mailto:someone@their.address
        mailto:pingram@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au
        news:usenet.news.group
        news:sci.geo.geology
        ftp://host.domain/dir/file
        ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/mirrors/msdos/graphics/gifkit.zip
        telnet://login-name@host.domain:23
        telnet://mars@mars.ocs.mq.edu.au
or      telnet://host.domain
        telnet://laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au
Alterations in August 1996
--------------------------
- modified S.Fijio's site for Hydrographic Maps with the Levitus Data Set
- modified W. Cross' AllInOne Search Page url
- added The Nine Planets page
- added Geochemistry on the Web page
- added SCRIPPS Electronic Periodicals and Texts Page
- added CIESINS RS Thematic Guide
- added the NHRC Newsletter site
- added The Geologists Lifetime Field List
Alterations in September, 1996
------------------------------
- altered url for Lycos
- altered url for Bob's Rockshop
- added DejaNews site for searching internet newsgroups
- added the Books On-Line from the National Acadamy Press
- added the IRIS interactive knowledge based system
- modified the Geol. Survey of Japan url
Alterations for October, 1996
-----------------------------
- modified the url's for the Dewey Subject Catalog
- added Bill Corner's RS Resources on the Web
- deleted Torkington's WWW Primer
- modified EEF's Extended Internet Guide
- modified url for commercial GIS sites
- modified Intera Inc's url
- modified the url for the Disaster Research Newsletter
- modified the GeoRef url
- modified Yanoff's Internet Services List url
- removed the SAIF FAQ by Dale Lutz
- removed Robert Grumbine's List of Schools in Met Science
- modified the url for the Spatial Statistics Pre-Print Service
- modified the entry for the Argus Clearinghouse
- removed Hal Mueller's Internet Park Geoscience Page
- removed the Ultimate Mineral Science List
- removed UBC's Oceanography links page
- modified the entry for the Gateway to the Antarctic
- removed Koster's Beasties page
- removed Lycos' big search page
- removed JumpStation II page
- modified WebCrwaler url
- removed SearchPlex page
- removed the MailBase gopher server url
- removed U Texas' GeoGopher
- modified url for GrassLinks at Berkeley
- removed CIESIN's RS Guide page
- removed MercatoMag's pages
- modified the subway entry for UCMP Berkeley
- removed the Royal Tyrrell Museum
- removed the Museum On-Line resource Review page
- removed Science Education On-Line page
- modified url for The Hydrosaurus Foulkii
- removed The Environmental resource Center pages
- removed Courseware at UBC, but kept Intro to Petrology
- removed Education Resources for Class IV Publishing
- removed Statistical Courses on the Net page
- removed GIS Distance Learning page
- modified url for the Virtual Earthquake
- removed the CFD page
- modified the url for the American Geological Institute
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0. CONTENTS
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0.1 General Web Information
0.2 The USGS Web Sites
0.3 Subject Indexes
  0.3a General Web Indexes
  0.3b Web Indexes for Earth Sciences
  0.3c Gopher Subject Trees
0.4 Web Gateways
  0.4a Hypermail
  0.4b ArchiePlex
  0.4c WAIS/FAQ Gateways
0.5 Searches
  0.5a WWW Searches (Robots, Worms, Crawlers, Spiders etc)
  0.5b Gopher Jughead Searches
  0.5c Gopher Veronica Searches
  0.5d Gopher WAIS Searches
0.6 Special Earth Sciences Connections
0.7 Sites of Related Interest
  0.7a Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs)
  0.7b Environmental Sites
  0.7c GIS, Satellite and Mapping Sites
  0.7d Oceangography Sites
  0.7e Paleontolgy and Museums
  0.7f Petrology and Mineralogy
  0.7g Education and Careers
  0.7h Calendar and Events
  0.7i Other Sites
0.8 FAQs and Resource Guides
  0.8a FAQs at RTFM, MIT
  0.8b Hypertext Resource Guides
0.9 Announcements, New Sites and News Groups
0.10 Listservs and Listserv Information
0.11 Library Servers
0.12 Commercial Organisations
  0.12a Mining/Exploration Information and Newspapers
  0.12b Mapping and GIS
  0.12c Geology Information
0.13 Journals, Bulletins and Books
0.14 Electronic Preprints and Supplements
0.15 Jobs
0.16 Geological Surveys and Organisations
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1. General Web Information
--------------------------
i) The WWW Initiative
    http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
ii) WWW Summary
    http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Summary.html
iii) Entering the WWW, A Guide to Cyberspace by Kevin Hughes
   http://www.eit.com/web/www.guide/
iv) The List of WWW Servers
   http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Servers.html
v) W3 Clients
   http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Clients.html
vi) WWW Wanderers, Spiders and Robots
   http://web.nexor.co.uk/mak/doc/robots/robots.html
vii) List of Robots
   http://web.nexor.co.uk/mak/doc/robots/active.html
viii) Special Internet Connections
   http://www.uwm.edu/Mirror/inet.services.html
ix) WWW/Mosaic Training Material from the USGS
   http://info.er.usgs.gov:4444/train
x) Internet Resources from the USGS
   http://www.usgs.gov/network/resources.html
xi) Internet Guides and Papers from Telstra Corporation (Australia)
   http://www.telstra.com.au/guide.html
xii) HTML-3 Primer
   http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pwb/html3/Contents.html
xiii) A Self Guided Tour of The Internet
   http://www.geosc.uh.edu/anon.internet
xiv) The WWW FAQ Page
   http://www.boutell.com/faq/
xv) Common Internet File Formats, plus links, compiled by Perlman and Kallen
   http://www.matisse.net/files/formats.html
xvi) John December's Internet Web Text - on how to use the Internet
   http://www.december.com/web/text/index.html
xvii) EFF's Extended Guide to the Internet
   http://www.eff.org/papers/eegtti/eeggttitop.html
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2. The USGS Web Sites
--------------------
i) The USGS home page:
    http://www.usgs.gov/
ii) The USGS What's New page
    http://internet.er.usgs.gov/whats-new/whats-new.html
iii) Water Resources:
    http://h2o.er.usgs.gov/
iv) National Mapping Information:
    http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/
v)  Data Products:
    http://www.usgs.gov/pubprod/index.html
vi)  Publications:
    http://www.usgs.gov/data/geologic/index.html
vii)  National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
    http://nsdi.usgs.gov/nsdi/
viii)  Geographic Information Systems
    http://www.usgs.gov/research/gis/title.html
ix)  FGDC - Manual of Geographic Data Products
    http://www.usgs.gov/fgdc-catalog/title.html
x)   GeoData Products Index
    http://www.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html
xi) The USGS Water Resources Division in Colorado:
   http://webserver.cr.usgs.gov/
xii) The USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory (and links to
   the Alaskan and Hawaiin Volcano Observatories):
   http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/home.html
xiii) USGS Hawaii Volcano Watch Reports
   http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/hvo/
xiv) Marine Geology, National Marine and Coastal Geology Program
   http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov
xv) Earthquake Information from Menlo Park:
   http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/
xvi) USGS Global Change Research Program
   http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/
xvii) USGS Morrison Research Initiative
   http://yuma.colostate.edu/~cwis70/morrison.html
xix) USGS Minerals Page
   http://minerals.er.usgs.gov
xx) Internet Resources
   http://bramble.er.usgs.gov/internetresources.html
xxi) USGS Branch of Geochemistry
   http://helios.cr.usgs.gov/
xxii) US GeoData FTP Access
   http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html
xxiii) The National Earthquake Information Center
   http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/
xxiv) The USGS Marine server
   http://marine.usgs.gov/
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3) SUBJECT INDEXES
------------------
3a. General Web Indexes
i) Yahoo (a very popular starting point, includes a search engine)
   http://www.yahoo.com
ii) The Whole Internet Catalog
   http://nearnet.gnn.com/wic/index.html
iii) Zilker Internet Park
   http://www.zilker.net
iv) Einet GALAXY
   http://galaxy.einet.net
v) The Argus Clearinghouse
   http://www.clearinghouse.net/
vi) Oliver McBryan's Mother of All BBS's
   http://wwwmbb.cs.colorado.edu/~mcbryan/bb/summary.html
vii) Phoaks links from AT and T
   http://www.phoaks.com/phoaks
3b. Web Indexes for Earth Sciences
Various sites maintain lists of hyperlinks to other servers. These
are registers, virtual libraries and meta-indexes. They are good
starting points to explore the web on a particular subject. Many html-ised
resource guides (see Section 8) can also be considered to be registers.
i) The latest on-line version of ORES (B. Thoen & T. Smith)
This site is, or will be, one of the most comprehensive on-line documents
available for geoscientists. It is very well structured. Each geoscientific
field has web pages in each of the following catagories: Mailing Lists, News
Groups, Documents and FAQs, Journals and Periodicals, Data and Software,
Hypermedia Resources.
   http://www.gisnet.com/gis/ores/
or http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/
The fields covered include:
   - Geography and GIS
     http://www.gisnet.com/gis/ores/gis/index.html
   - Geology (many areas)
     http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/index.html
   - Oceanography
     http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/ocean/index.html
   - Weather, meteorology and Climate
     http://www.gisnet.com/gis/ores/weather/index.html
ii) CERN's Virtual Library
The CERN organisation is responsible for the Web. They request new servers
register with them, and these links form the Virtual Library, which is broken
up into catagories. Not all catagories are maintained by CERN. The main
index is at:
    http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview2.html
Other links at:
    - Earth Sciences
      http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/VL-EarthSciences.html
    - Geophysics
      http://www-crewes.geo.ucalgary.ca/VL-Geophysics.html
    - Oceanography
      http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/ocean/oceanography.html
    - Remote Sensing
      http://www.vtt.fi/aut/ava/rs/virtual/
    - Crystallography
      http://www.unige.ch/crystal/crystal-index.html
    - Environment
      http://ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu/Environment.html
    - Cartography
      http://geog.gmu.edu/gess/jwc/cartogrefs.html
iii) The University of Houston Anon Server - for those with an interest
in mathematics, computers and Earth Sciences and the publications of
Mathematical Geology and Computers in Geosciences
   http://www.geosc.uh.edu/anon.html
Main categories include:
   - Links to Internet Resources
     http://www.geosc.uh.edu/AnonResources.html
   - Educational Resources - courses on the net
     http://www.geosc.uh.edu/anoneducation.html
   - Geoscience Online resources by Subject Matter
     http://www.geosc.uh.edu/geosciencesresources.html
   - Data Sources
     http://www.geosc.uh.edu/anonData.html
iv) The Geosciences Link at Einet:
   http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Science/Geosciences.html
v) Russ Jacobson's (Dino Russ fame) Links page
   http://128.174.172.76/isgroot/dino/earthsci_links.html
vi) Seismosurfing, Surfing the Internet for Seismic Sites:
   http://www.geophys.washington.edu/seismosurfing.html
vii) Prospectings of Geophysics and Tectonophysics maintained by Dr Furuse
   http://cancer.mss.co.jp/Geophysics/
viii) Mineralogical sites at Clausthal Institute
   http://www.immr.tu-clausthal.de/
ix) EARTHNet Info Server for Dinosaurs and Vertebrate Paleontology
   http://jacobson.isgs.uiuc.edu/
x) The Earth Environmental Science Center's Hydrology Related Internet
Resources
   http://terrassa.pnl.gov:2080/EESC/resourcelist/hydrology.html OR
   http://etd.pnl.gov:2080/hydroweb.html
xi) Earth and Environmental Sciences Connections from the USGS
   http://www.usgs.gov/network/science/earth/index.html
xii) Lists maintained by Steven Schimmrich
  - The Structrural Geology Page
    http://hercules.geology.uiuc.edu/~schimmri/geology/structure.html
xiii) Oceanography links via Scripps Institute of Oceanography Library
    http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/sio/guide/guides.html
xiv) Links to GIS and maps from the Bureau of Land Management, CO
    http://www.blm.gov/gis/gishome.html
xv) GIS Net Sites (ex Frank Smith)
    http://www.hdm.com/gis3.html
xvi) The Norwegian Rockhound's Geology List - over 700 geosciences links
    http://www.uio.no/~hansjb/link.html
xvii) Comprehensive List of Popular Meta-Indexes from Telstra
    http://www.telstra.com.au/meta/meta.html
xviii) The Dewey Subject Catalog
    http://www.akamail.com/patrick/gnosis/
    - Earth Science Section
    http://www.akamail.com/patrick/gnosis/550.html
xix) GeoWeb Geoscience related links by Gareth Mills
    http://www.pacificnet.net/~gimills/main.html
3c. Gopher Subject Trees
Gopher was a protocol used before the Web became popular. Many
gopher servers were established, but they are now on the decline.
Many gopher sites have connections listed by subject. Included are:
i) Gopher Jewels at USC
  gopher://cwis.usc.edu:70/11/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/
       Gophers_by_Subject/Gopher_Jewels
ii) Nth Carolina State Subject Tree
  gopher://gopher.ncsu.edu:70/11/res_service
iii) Rice University Subject Listing
  gopher://chico.rice.edu:70/11/Subject/
iv) University of Michigan Subject Tree
  gopher://vienna.hh.lib.umich.edu:70/1/
v) USC: Research Information by Subject
  gopher://cwis.usc.edu:70/11/LibraryResearch/research/by.subject
vi) UT:Dallas: Internet Information by Subject
  gopher://gopher.utdallas.edu:70/11/subject
vii) Washington and Lee Subject Tree
  gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu:70/11/gophers/other
viii) U. of Waterloo Subject Tree
  gopher://watserv2.uwaterloo.ca:70/11/facilities/University%20of
       %20Waterloo%20Library/finding/discipline
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4. Web Gateways
---------------
4a. Hypermail
Web gateway to Usenet news groups
- http://www.eit.com/software/hypermail/hypermail.html
4b. ArchiePlex
This is a Web gateway to the Archie service
- List of ArchiePlex Servers from NEXOR
   http://pubweb.nexor.co.uk/archie.html
4c. WAIS/FAQ Gateways
Automated hypertexting of FAQs at the news.answers archives
i) Automated/Searchable Usenet FAQ's at Ohio State
  http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu:80/hypertext/faq/usenet/FAQ-List.html
  - Geoscience's FAQs from Ohio State Uni
   http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/bngusenet/sci/geo/top.html
ii) Automated/Searchable Usenet FAQs from Universiteit Utrecht
  http://www.cs.ruu.nl/cgi-bin/faqwais
  - Geosciences FAQ
   http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/geology-faq/.html
iii) Usenet News from Oxford University
   http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/
4d. Miscellaneous
i) Nick Kew's integrated FAQ, threaded bulletin board and searchabe database
    http://clever.net/webthing/
  - remote sensing version
      http://clever.net/webthing/RS
ii) DejaNews: search internet news groups
    http://www.dejanews.com/
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5. Searches
5a. WWW Searches (Robots, Worms Crawlers, Spiders etc)
------------------------------------------------------
Web searches seek out web sites, search the contents of the pages for
specific data and store the result in a data base. Searches are made
of the data base. The information sought and stored varies from search
engine, so you may have to try several before finding one that meets
your requirements. IMHO Alta Vista and Lycos are hard to beat.
i) Alta Vista
   http://altavista.digital.com/
   - Autralian Mirror
   http://www.altavista.yellowpages.com.au/cgi-bin/telstra?
ii) Harvest (look for brokers)
   http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/
   - Harvest Broker Query Web Home Pages
     http://town.hall.org/Harvest/brokers/www-home-pages
   - Interface to the Harvest Server Registry, query by subject
     http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/Harvest/brokers/hsr/query.html
iii) Lycos - home page
   http://www.lycos.com/
v) The Web Crawler
   http://webcrawler.com/
vi) The WWW Worm
   http://www.cs.colorado.edu/home/mcbryan/WWWW.html
vii) The Searchable WWW Catalog
   http://cuiwww.unige.ch/w3catalog
viii) The RBSE URL Search
   http://rbse.jsc.nasa.gov/eichmann/urlsearch.html
xix) The WWW Acronym Server
   http://curia.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.html
x) The All In One Search Engine Page
This is from Albany Net, maintained by William Cross. It has assorted
search engines for various catagories (WWW, People, News etc).
   http://www.albany.net/allinone/
xi) Collection of Index and Forms based search engines from Telstra
   http://www.telstra.com.au/meta/search.html
xii) Nexor CUSI Services Gateway
   http://pubweb.nexor.co.uk/public/cusi/doc/list.html
xiii) University of Geneva CUI/W3 Page
   http://cuiwww.unige.ch/meta-index.html
xiv) The Internet Quick Search Page
   http://atlas.es.mq.edu.au/users/pingram/qsearch.htm
xv) The Magellan Search
   http://www.mckinley.com/
xvi) MetaCrawler
   http://metacrawlet.cs.washington.edu:8080
xvii) Yahoo Search
   http://www.yahoo.com/
5b. Gopher Jughead Searches
---------------------------
Jughead are searches of the upper level menus of gopher servers. To
find out more about jughead, take a look at the Washington & Lee
Jughead Information:
    gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu:70/00/gophers/jughead
Some sites offering jughead searches include:
 gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu:3002/7
 gopher://veronica.cc.keio.ac.jp:2347/7-tl
 gopher://psi.com:2347/7-tl
 gopher://gopher.bham.ac.uk:3000/7
5c. Gopher Veronica Searches
----------------------------
To find out more about Veronica searches and gopher, look at the
following two documents:
How to Query Veronica:
 gopher://futique.scs.unr.edu:70/00/veronica/how-to-query-veronica
The Veronica FAQ
 gopher://futique.scs.unr.edu:70/00/veronica/veronica-faq
Some sites with Veronica searches include:
 gopher://gopher.psi.com:2347/7
 gopher://nysernet.org:2347/7
 gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu:70/11/gophers/veronica
 gopher://archie.au:2347/7
5d. Gopher WAIS Searches
------------------------
WAIS servers hold searchable databases. WAIS stands for Wide Area
Information Servers. Some sites that have WAIS searches include:
gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu:70/11/internet/wais/wais-sources
gopher://chico.rice.edu:70/11/OtherGophers/WAIS
gopher://pinus.slu.edu/Wide%20Area%20Information%20Services
       %20databases
gopher://gopher-gw.micro.umn.edu:70/11/WAISes
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6) Special Earth Sciences Connections
-------------------------------------
Some special Earth Science Web connections include:
i) The Bulletin of Global Volcanism Network
   http://nmnhgoph.si.edu/gvn.html
ii) Geology and Geophysics Number Crunchers Forum:
   http://www.glg.ed.ac.uk/crunch
iii) IRIS EOS Volcanogy Team's Home Page:
   http://www.geo.mtu.edu/eos/
iv) The US Environmental Protection Agency
   http://www.epa.gov/
v) NOAA Geosciences Lab:
   http://www.grdl.noaa.gov/
vi) Altimetry Atlas of Indian and Atlantic Oceans by Delft University
   http://dutlru8.lr.tudelft.nl/
vii) Hydro Atlas of the Southern Oceans from Alfred Wegener Institute:
   http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/
viii) Plate Motion Calculator for calculating plate motions:
   http://manbow.ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/tamaki-html/plate_motion.html
ix) Interactive Hydrographic Map from the Levitus' 1994 data set:
   http://dpo.ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ocean/toolmap/Levitus-map.html
x) The Geosciences Information Group from the UK Geol. Soc.
   http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Geol/gig/gig.html
xi) Scott's Earth Sciences Site of the Week
   http://agcwww.bio.ns.ca/misc/geores/sotw/sotw.html
xii) An Animation of the Rotating Earth
   http://agcwww.bio.ns.ca/  (look under "Scientific Info")
xiii) Earthqhake Locator from Bruce Gittings and Edinburgh University
   http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/quakes/quakes.html
xiv) Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
   http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/
  --- RIDGE Multi Beam Synthesis Project for bathymetry data
    http://imager.ldeo.columbia.edu
xv) The Electronic Volcano, edited by Barabara DeFelice & Richard Stoiber
    http://www.dartmouth.edu/pages/rox/volcanoes/elecvolc.html
xvi) Computer Orientated Geological Society (COGS)
    http://www.csn.net/~tbrez
xvii) The Australian National Geoscientific Information System (@ngis)
    http://www.agso.gov.au/information/ngis.html
    -   Questions and Answers on @ngis, plus Australian Links
        http://www.agso.gov.au/information/ngis/angisfaqs.html
xviii) ENVision is an internet-based environmental consulting firm. They have
excellent links to other sites in Geology and Environmental Sciences
  - Geology
  http://www.envision.net/osites/geology/geology.html
  - Environmental Science and Engineering
  http://www.envision.net/osites/environ/envrelat.html
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7) Sites of Related Interest
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7a. Distributed Active Archive Centers
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NASA's EOSDIS program have a number of Web sites which provide researches
with access to the NASA Earth Science Data Collection. These are the
Distributed Active Archive Centers, or DAACs.
The main EOSDIS-DAAC Home Page:
   http://eos.nasa.gov/
The Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) provides  directory-level
information for NASA's EOSDIS program. It also has directory-level
metadata searches. It is located at:
   http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov
The other DAACs include:
i) EROS DAAC (land processes)
   http://sun1.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/landdaac.html
ii) CIESIN-SEDAC (socioeconomic data & applications for human dimensions
    of global environmental change)
   http://www.ciesin.org/IC/SEDAC/SEDAC.html
iii) Goddard Space Flight Center (global biosphere, atmospheric dynamics
     & geophysics)
   http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/
iv) Langley Research Center (radiation budget, tropospheric chemistry,
     clouds & aerosols)
    http://eosdis.larc.nasa.gov/
v)  Marshall Space Flight Center (hydrologic cycle)
    http://wwwdaac.msfc.nasa.gov
vi)  NOAA Satellite Active Archive (satellite data)
    http://www.saa.noaa.gov
vii) National Snow & Ice Data Center (snow, ice, cryosphere and climate)
    http://eosims.colorado.edu:1733
viii) Oak Ridge National Lab (biogeochemical dynamics)
    http://www-eosdis.ornl.gov/
ix)  Physical Oceanography DAAC (Topex/Poseiden images, AVHRR Pathfinder
     data set, oceanography)
    http://podaac-www.jpl.nasa.gov
   --- ftp site at:
     ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/pub
x)   Oceanography from Thoen and Smith's ORES
     http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/ocean/index.html
7b. Environmental Sites
-----------------------
i) ERIN, The Australian Environmental Resources Information Network:
   http://kaos.erin.gov.au/erin.html
ii) EnviroWeb
  http://envirolink.org/
iii) The Disaster Research Newsletter from Natural Hazards Research &
    Applications Center
  http://www.cla.sc.edu/geog/hrl/home.html
iv) The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
   http://www.epa.gov/
v) INTERA Inc., good links to other sites, plus software index
   http://www.intera.com/
vi) The NGDC Natural Hazards Data Site
   http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/hazards.html
vii) Environmental Hydrosystems, a water resources and environmental
    conulting firm, offers a lot on the Net.
    http://hydrosystems.com
    - Hot list of environmental, water resources and Earth Science links:
    http://hydrosystems.com/model_link.html
    - EnviroMod Data Warehouse Broker, Search all known pertinent sites
    to groundwater and environmental modelling.
    http://hydrosystems.com/Harvest/brokers/ENVIROMOD/
viii) ENVIROMINE - environmental issues related to the mining industry
   http://www.info-mine.com/technomine/enviromine/env_main.html
ix) The Lake Data Web Site - to distribute new global environmental data
and info for large lakes
   http://msslsp.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/orgs/un
7c. GIS, Satellite and Mapping Sites
------------------------------------
This section not only includes gis, satellite observation systems and maps,
but also cartography wrt maps, surveying and related mapping information.
i) Internet GIS and RD Information Sites
   ftp:///gis.queensu.ca/pub/gis/docs/gissites.html
ii) Digital Map Library at Queens University
   http://gis.queensu.ca/pub/www/dml.html
iii) University of Edinburgh, Dept. of Geography, GIS Home Page:
   http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/gishome.html
    -- with other pages for Acces Map Preparation:
       http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/pexe/dp
    -- Atlas Application:
       http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/pip/atlas.html
    -- List of GIS WWW Servers
       http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/giswww.html
iv) Sol Katz's Geospatial Home Page for Detailed Meta-Data information
   http://www.blm.gov/gis/nsdi.html
v) Virtually Hawaii, at SOEST.
   http://www.satlab.hawaii.edu/space/hawaii/
vi) On-Line Bibliographies at OSU Dept. Geography
   http://thoth.sbs.ohio-state.edu/resources.html
  -- On-line GIS Master Bibliography
     http://thoth.sbs.ohio-state.edu/osugisbib/wais.html
  -- Map Projection Bibliography
     http://thoth.sbs.ohio-state.edu/snyderbib
  -- SIGGRAPH Online Bibliography Database
     http://www.siggraph.org/library/bibliography/bibliography.html
vii) GeoWEB Project
    http://wings.buffalo.edu/geoweb/
viii)  Distributed Spatial Data Library of Australian Mapping (at ERIN)
    http://www.erin.gov.au/dsdl/dsdl.html
ix)   Auslig (Australian Surveying & Land Information Group)
    http://www.auslig.gov.au/welcome.html
x) The Center fo Advanced Spatial Technologies - one of the best GIS sites
    http://www.cast.uark.edu/main.html
  -- Info on GIS resources
    http://www.cast.uark.edu/links/GIS/
  -- Links to many US Geospatial Data sets 
     Resource Guides
    http://www.cast.uark.edu/~sp/hunt.html
xi) Geography and GIS from Thoen and Smith's ORES
     http://www.gisnet.com/gis/ores/gis/index.html
xii) GIS and RS Sites from FAD Dep. Geographical Sc Utrecht University
     http://www.frw.ruu.nl/nicegeo.html
xiii) Frank Smiths GIS Web Pages, extensive collection of web sites
     http://www.io.com/~frank/gis.html
xiv) GIS and the Internet maintained by Matthias Werner
     http://www.bio-geo.uni-karlsruhe.de/gis/gis.htm
   -- English language version
     http://www.bio-geo.uni-karlsruhe.de/gis/gis-engl.htm
xv) Web/GIS Links from B. Thoen
     http://www.gisnet.com/gis/webgis.html
xvi) Cartography/Mapping from U. Texas at Austin
    -- Map Projection Notes by Peter H. Dana
       http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/gcraft/notes/mapproj/mapproj.html
    -- Geodetic Datum Overview
       http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/gcraft/notes/datum/datum.html
    -- Coordinate Systems Overview
       http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/gcraft/notes/coordsys/coordsys.html
xvii) On-Line Resources for Land Surveying
    http://homepage.interaccess.com/~maynard/
xviii) Perry-Castanedu Library Map Collection from U. Texas at Austin
    http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html
ixx) IDRISI Resource Center, Salzburg
   http://www.edvz.sbg.ac.at/geo/idrisi/irchome.htm
   -  IDRISI Tutorial
      http://www.edvz.sbg.ac.at/geo/idrisi/wwwtutor/tuthome.htm
xx) Remote Sensing/GIS/GPS Site List by Oliver Wetherbee
   http://triton.cms.udel.edu/~oliver/rs_gis.html
xxi) The Meshing Research Corner by Steve Owens
   http://www.ce.cmu.edu/~sowen/mesh.html
xxii) Robert Schneider's Finite Elemenent Mesh Generation Page
   http://www-users.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~roberts/meshgeneration.html
xxiii) The Global Positioning Systems Home Page by Peter Dana
   http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/gcraft/notes/gps/gps.html
xxiv) The Navigation Center from the US Coast Guard
   http://www.navcen.uscg.mil/
  - GPS information
   http://www.navcen.uscg.mil/gps/gps.htm
  - US Differential GPS System Information
   http://www.navcen.uscg.mil/dgps/dgps.htm
  - OMEGA Navigation System Information
   http://www.navcen.uscg.mil/omega/omega.htm
  - Loran-C Information
   http://www.navcen.uscg.mil/loran/loran.htm
xxv) The Graphics File Formats Home Page - another great site
  http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/%7Emxr/gfx
xxvi) GIS Analysis with Arc-Info by Shane Murnion
  http://boris.qub.ac.uk/shane/arc/ARChome.html
xxvii) Dubois Gregoire's AI-Geostatistics Home Page and Mailing List
  http://java.ei.jrc.it/rem/gregoire/
xxviii The Arc Info FAQ Page
  http://www.io.org/~gosho/mi_faq.htm
xxix) Introduction to Remote Sensing by David Schneider
  http://www.geo.mtu.edu/rs/
xxx) The Remote Sensing Tutorial by Nick Short
  http://iifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ais/IIFS-html/LT/NewTutorial/intro1.html
xxxi) GIS and RS Resources - alphabetised from the U. Utrecht list
  http://www.uni-sb.de/philfak/fb6/fr66/tpw/gis/gis-rs.htn
xxxii) Grass Link 2.0 Public Access GIS (Make a Map of California)
  http://www.regis.berkeley.edu/grasslinks/
xxxiii) The Distibuted Spatial Data Laboratory in Australia (Make a Map
of Australia)
  http://kaos.erin.gov.au/cgi-bin/spatial_interface
xxxiv) Odden's Bookmarks
  http://kartoserver.frw.ruu.nl/HTML/oddens.html
xxxv) Data Base Query and Map Generation
  http://www.ssc.msu.edu/~geo/wwwgis.html
xxxvi) The Topex/Posoiden Image Collection (from 1992)
   http://podaac-www.jpl.nasa.gov/topex/
xxxvii) IRIS knowldege based system for interactive mapping and visual data
exploration (Note: this is a Java site)
   http://allanon.gmd.de/and/java/iris/Iris.html
xxxviii) Remote Sensing Resources on the Web by Bill Corner
   http://www.man.ac.uk/Arts/geography/
7d. Oceanography Sites
----------------------
i)  Ocean Information Center, OCEANIC Home Page
   http://diu.cms.udel.edu/
ii) Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo
   http://www.ori.o-tokyo.ac.jp/
iii)  National Oceanic Data Center
     http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/
iv) NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Oceans AVHRR SST Data
   http://sst-www.jpl.nasa.gov
v) The Satellite Oceanography Lab at SOEST, U. of Hawaii at Manoa
   http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu
vi) Oceanography Links to the World Wide Web at Uni. British Columbia
    http://www.ocgy.ubc.ca/oceanography.links.html
vii) The Ocean Color Data & Resources (NASA GSFC DAAC)
    http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/OCDST/OB_main.html
7e. Paleontology and Museums
----------------------------
i) The Museum of Paleontology at U. Cal., Berkeley
   http://ucmp1.berkeley.edu/
   -- The UCMP Subway
     http://ucmp1.berkeley.edu/subway/subway.html
ii) The Dino Exhibit from Honolulu Community College
   http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/dinos/dinos.1.html
iii) Dino Russ's Page
   http://denr1.igis.uiuc.edu:/isgsroot/dinos/dinos_home.html
iv) Hadrosaurus Foulkii
   http://www.levins.com/hadrosaurus.html
v) The Radiolarian Page (concerned with the Canadian Cordillera)
   http://mindlink.net/fabrice_cordey/rad.htm
vi) Recent and Fossil Bryozoa
   http://www.civgeo.rmit.edu.au/bryozoa/bryozoa.html
vii) Catalog of Bryozoan Types in the Swedish Museum
   http://www.nrm.se/
viii) The Electronic Prehistoric Shark Museum
   http://turnpike.net/emporium/C/celestial/epsm.htm
ix) The Berne Natural History Museum
   http://www-nmbe.unibe.ch/
x) Kevin's Page of Death
   http://www.ualberta.ca/~kbrett/index.html
   - The Trilobite Page
   http://www.ualberta.ca/~kbrett/Trilobites.html
xi) The Burgess Shale
   http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae/Burgess_Shale
xii) Prem's Fossil Page
   http://dev.uol.com/~prem/fossil.html
    - Other Paleontological Links
    http://dev.uol.com/~prem/othpal.html
xiii) Fossil Vertebrates at the Burke Museum
    http://weber.u.washinghton.edu/~vertp/BurkeVertPage.html
xiv) PaleoNet West (at Berkeley)
    http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/Paleonet
    - PaleoNet East
    http://www.nmh.ac.uk/paleonet
7f. Petrology and Mineralogy
----------------------------
i) Ecole des Mines de Paris
   http://cri.ensmp.fr/mineral/
ii) Berne's Museum of Natural History, Mineralogy and Petrology
   http://nmbe0.unibe.ch/abtew/minpetrcoll.html
iii) The Petrographic Workshop, Physical Science Learning Center
   http://pong.igpp.ucla.edu/pet/pet_intro.html
  - Browse minerals with optical images
    http://pong.igpp.ucla.edu/pet/browse.html
iv) The Norwegian Rockhound
    http://www.uio.no/~hansjb/index.html
v) The Clausthal Mineral Collection
    http://www.immr.tu-clausthal.de/labs/mincoll.html
vi) Bob's Rock Shop (I couldn't think where else to put this one)
    http://www.rockhounds.com/
    -- Jewels from the World Wide Web
    http://www.rockhounds.com/rockshop/linklist.html
vii) Athena Mineralogy
    http://un2sg1.unige.ch/www/athena/mineral/mineral.html
viii) The Mineral Galleries Home Page from Amethyst - a great catalog and
    description of minerals
    http://mineral.galleries.com/Minerals/SILICATE/Class.htm
ix) Geochemistry on the WWW
    http://www.geo.cornell.edu/geology/classes/Geochemweblinks.HTML
7g. Education and Careers
-------------------------
i) The Physical Science Learning Center
   http://pong.igpp.ucla.edu
ii) Geology Courses on the Internet (from the World Learning Center)
   http://wwwhost.cc.utexas.edu/world/instruction/other/#geo
iii) Careers in Geoscience (Canadian bias)
   http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/earth/geoscience/careers.html
iv) The Geography Virtual Department (from U. Texas)
   http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/virtdept/contents.html
   -- On-line Geography Courses
      http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/virtdept/courses/courselist.html
   -- Links to Virtual Resources (GIS, data, maps, cartography etc)
      http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/virtdept/resources/contents.html
v) Links to Education Resources on the Net (from the University of Houston)
   http://www.nsm.uh.edu/anoneducation.html
    - Distance Education On-Line
    http://www.nsm.uh.edu/anon.university
    - The Virtual Professor from Houston Uni,
          a 'must see' site for education
    http://www.nsm.uh.edu/anonfieldtrips.html
    - John Butler's Physical Geology Course
    http://www.nsm.uh.edu/aphysicalgeology.html
vi) The geology@bristol Experience - by P. Browing and J. Williams
    http://www.gly.bris.ac.uk/www/teach/ctiss/ctiss.html
vii) Dave Water's Resources for Earth Science Teaching
   http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~davewa/teaching.html
viii) Jack Rice's (U. Oregon) Introductory Course in Mineralogy
   http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jrice/geol_311/geol_311.html
ix) Geoscience K12 resources
   http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~johnstos/geosci.html
x) Earth System Science Education Program
   http://www.usra.edu/esse/ESSE.html
   - ESSE Notes (good for what's new on the web for geoscience
   http://www.usra.edu/esse/enlstjan96.html
xi) The Virtual Library for Pamela Gore's Students at DeKalb College
   http://dekalb.dc.peachnet.edu/~pgore/gore.htm
xii) Terry Gordon's WWW Links to Teaching Pages
   http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~tmg/web_teach.html
xiii) The Jurassic Reef Park
   http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/UNIuser/igps/JRP/Jurassic_Reef_Park.html
xiv) Introduction to Igneous Petrology
   http://www.science.ubc.ca/~geol202/s/geol.html
xv) The Virtual Earthquake from Dept. Geological Sciences at Cal. State
   http://vflylab.calstatela.edu/edesktop/VirtApps/VirtualEarthQuake/VQuakeIntro.html
7h. Calendar and Events
-----------------------
i) Petroleum Industry Calendar
   http://www.oslonett.no/home/henning/petreven.htm
ii) Petroleum Calendar
   http://baervan.nmt.edu/events/calendar.html
7i. Other Sites
---------------
i) NSF Geosciences UNIDATA
   http://atm.geo.nsf.gov/
ii) NOAA/NGDC Data Center Home Page
   http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/
  -- World Data Center A
     http://www.ngdc,noaa.gov/wdc/wdcmain.html
  -- National Climatic Data Center
     http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ncdc.html
  -- National Oceanic Data Center
     http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/
  -- Environmental Services Section
     http://esdim.noaa.gov/
iii) Rocknet, Rock Mechanics
   http://sair019.energylan.sandia.gov:70
iv) Groundwater Remediation Project
   http://gwrp.cciw.ca
v) InterRidge Web Page (for mid-ocean ridges)
   http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dgl0zz1/
vi) Groundwater Modelling Software Internet Resources at BYU (Steve Owens)
   http://www.et.byu.edu/~geos/staff/owens/groundwater.html
vii) Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Sources at U. Texas, Austin
   http://www.pe.utexas.edu/Dept/Reading/petroleum.html
viii) The Gateway to the Antarctic maintained by ICAIR, NZ
   http://www.icair.iac.org.nz/
ix) Australian Resouces Links - links to AGSO, CSIRO's divisions plus more
   http://www.csu.edu.au/links/resources.html
x) The Geo Exchange - list of applied and commercial geoscience sites
   http://giant.mindlink.net/geo_exchange/index.html
xi) Web Elements (version 2) by Mark Winter at Sheffield
   http://www2.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/web-elements/web-elements-home.html
xii) Los Alamos National Lab. Periodic Table of the Elements
    http://www-c8.lanl.gov/infosys/html/periodic/periodic-main.html
xiii) The IPFW Geosciences page with the Web Accessable Diffractometer
and the GeoGarden
    http://www.geosci.ipfw.indiana.edu
xiv) EUROLAT - European Network on Lateritic Weathering and Global Environment
    http://mindepos.bg.tu-berlin.de/eurolat
xv) The Geomorphology Lab from Miami University
http://tgl.geology.muohio.edu/gbook/gresources.html
xvi) Giovanni Guglielmo's Research Page on Salt Tectonics (download
images and 3D Visualisations and animations)
http://www.utexas.edu/research/beg/giovanni
xvii) Favourite Internet Resources  of an Unemployed Geologist
(has links to online jobs)
   http://www.avana.net/pages/personal/jwhcpg/
xviii) The Nine Planets - a multi-media tour of the Solar System
   http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
   - info on the Earth
   http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/earth.html
xix) The Geologist's Lifetime Field List
  http://www.uc.edu/~ACOMBTY/geologylist.html
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8. FAQs and Resource Guides
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8a. FAQs from the MIT Archive
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FAQs that have been approved by the *.answers moderators are archived at
Michigan Institute of Technology RTFM server. The following are earth science
related FAQs:
i) Scott Guthery's Petroleum Resources FAQ
   ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/geology-faq/petroleum-resources
ii) Lisa Nyman's GIS FAQ
   ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/geography/infosystems-faq
iii) Ilana Stern's sci.geo.meteorology FAQ
   ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/meteorology/faq-intro
   ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/meteorology/weather-data
   ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/meteorology/research_data
   ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/meteorology/cdroms
   ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/meteorology/net-resources
   ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/meteorology/print-resources
   ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/meteorology/state-climatologists
iv) Ilana Stern's Science Data Formats FAQ
   ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/sci-data-formats
v) Spencer Ramshaw's sci.geo.geology FAQ
   ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/geology-faq/contents
   ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/geology-faq/glossary
   ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/geology-faq/introduction
   ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/geology-faq/faq
   ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/geology-faq/appendices
vi) Nick Kew's Satellite Imagery FAQ
   ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/sci/Satellite-Imagery-FAQ/part1
   ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/sci/Satellite-Imagery-FAQ/part2
   ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/sci/Satellite-Imagery-FAQ/part3
   ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/sci/Satellite-Imagery-FAQ/part4
   ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/sci/Satellite-Imagery-FAQ/part5
8b. Hypertext Resource Guides
-----------------------------
i) Bill Thoen's ORES Document (June, 1994 version)
  (The latest ORES by Bill Thoen and Ted Smith can be found is section 3a)
   http://www.englib.cornell.edu/geology_resources/ORES/earthscience.html
ii) Geoscience's FAQs from Ohio State Uni
   http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/bngusenet/sci/geo/top.html
iii) sci.geo.petroleum FAQ
   http://www.ncpgg.adelaide.edu.au/sgp1.htm
   - partial mirror sites at:
   http://www.glg.ed.ac.uk/~ajsw/doc/sci.geo.petroleum_FAQ.html
   http://home.sol.no/jhuang/docs/faq.html
   http://www.glg.ed.ac.uk/~ajsw/doc/sci.geo.petroleum_FAQ.html
iv) Ilana Stern's sci.data.format FAQ
   http://fits.cv.nrao/traffic/scidataformats/faq.html
v) Ilana Sterns sci.geo.meteorology FAQ
   http://www.ucar.edu/dss/faq/
vi) McDermott's GIS Sites
   ftp://gis.queensu.ca/pub/gis/docs/gissites.html
viii) Scott Yanoff's Internet Services List
   http://www.spectracom.com/islist/
ix The Clearinghouse for Subject Orientated Internet Resource Guides:
   http://http2.sils.umich.edu/~lou/chome.html
x) Lisa Nyman's GIS FAQ
   http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/geo/www/faq-index.html
 and is mirrored at:
   http://www.ciesin.org/gisfaq/faq-index.html
xi) Jorg Schulz-Rojahn FAQ On-line Earth Science Journals
   http://www.ncpgg.adelaide.edu.au/journals.htm
xii) Satellite Imagery FAQ (SATFAQ) by Nick Kew et al
- From the Remote Sensing InterFAQ
  http://clever.net/webthing/RS
- from various web sites including
    http://www.geog.nottingham.ac.uk/remote/satfaq.html
    http://web20.mindlink.net/geo_exchange/satfaq.html
    http://clever.net/webthing/people/nick/satfaq.html
xiii) Documents and FAQ's section in heading heading in ORES (some of these
may not yet be posted, but they will be).
     - Geography and GIS
       http://www.gisnet.com/gis/ores/gis/faqs.html
     - Oceanography
       http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/ocean/faqs.html
     - Geology (General)
       http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/geology/faqs.html
     - Volcanology
       http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/volcano/faqs.html
     - Geochemsitry
       http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/geochem/faqs.html
     - Geophysics
       http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/geophx/faqs.html
     - Hydrology
       http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/hydo/faqs.html
     - Paleontology
       http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/paleo/faqs.html
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9. Announcements, New Sites and News Groups
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Magazine style web sites, various internet based organisations
and other services provide a summary of what's new on the net
which have been geaned from various news groups and mailing lists.
Also included are sites with FAQ's and usenet news groups.
Note that some of these sites mau not be keeping their information
current.
i) The Scout Report by InterNIC
  http://rs.internic.net/scout/report
    - the current issue
    http://rs.internic.net/scout/report/current/
    - the archives
    http://rs.internic.net/scout/report/archive/
    - search the archives
    http://rs.internic.net/Archietect/AT-scout_reportquery.html
ii) WebNews
  http://twinbrook.cis.uab.edu:70/webNews.80
iii) Internaut
  http://www.zilker.net/users/internaut/index.html
iv) Matilda in Cyberspace
  http://snazzy.anu.edu/Matilda/start.html
v) Exploring Internet Resources at Washington and Lee
  gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu:70/11/internet
vi) The NETLink Server
  gopher://honor.uc.wlu.edu:1020/1
vii) Oxford University Libraries Automation Service WWW Server
  http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/
viii) HipLink, hot list archive of comp.infosystems.www.announce
  http://rznext01.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/cgi-bin/HipLinc
ix) All In One Search Engine Page for News
  http://www.albany.net/~wcross/all1srch.html#News
xii) ESSE Notes,  new Earth Science items of interest
  http://www.usra.edu/esse/enlstjan96.html
xiii) John December's What's New on the Internet
  http://www.december.com/cmc/info/
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10) Listservs and Listserv Information
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10a) General Information and Searching
For a userguide on Listservs by the EARN Organisation:
   http://www.earn.net/lug/notice.html
To search out listservs, mailing lists and the like try:
i) Washington and Lee
 gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu:70/11/internet
ii) Presbytarian College Gopher Server
 gopher://cs1.presby.edu:70/11/net-resources/mailing-lists
10b) Listserv's in Geoscientific Areas from ORES
(Note that some documents may not yet be posted).
    - Geography and GIS
      http://www.gisnet.com/gis/ores/gis/mail.html
    - General Geology
      http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/geology/mail.html
    - Geochemistry
      http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/geochem/mail.html
    - Hydrology
      http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/hydro/mail.html
    - Paleontology
      http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/paleo/mail.html
    - Volcanology
      http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/volcano/mail.html
10c) Listservs from TILE.NET (plus newsgroups and ftp sites)
    http://tile.net/
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11. Library Servers
-------------------
i) LibWeb from Washington University
   http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/
ii) U. Waterloo Scholarly Societies Project
   http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/overview.html
iii) BIBSYS Search
   http://www.bibsys.no/search/pube.html
iv) University of Saskatchewan Libraries Information System
   http://moondog.usask.ca/
v) Library Information Servers via the Web
   http://www.whittier.edu/www/html/libweb.html
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12. Commercial Organisations
----------------------------
12a) Mining/Expolration Information and Newspapers
i) Info-Mine: Mining Info On-Line by Robertson Info-Data Inc.
   http://www.info-mine.com
ii) MineNet by Tensor Technology
   http://www.microserve.net:80/~doug/
iii) The Investor Channel
   http://www.wimsey.com/Magnet/mc/index.html
iv) The Northern Miner
   http://www.southam.com/northernminer/
12b) Mapping and GIS
i) Geospatial Data Site by Core Software Technology
   http://www.coresw.com
ii) GIS World Magazine
   http://www.gisworld.com
iii) DeLorme Maps
   http://www.delorme.com
iv) Intergraph Online
   http://www.intergraph.com/
v) ESRI
   http://www.esri.com/
vi) List of Commercial GIS Sites
   http://www.cla.sc.edu/geog/geogdocs/otherdocs/comm.html
vii) Argus Technologies - Desktop Mapping
   http://www.tcel.com/~argus
viii) GeoWeb - Commercial Web Based Services for GIS, GPS and RS Professionals
   http://www.ggrweb.com
12c) General Geology Information
i) The Fossil Company
   http://www.fossil-company.com
   - Comprehensive links to other geology sites
       http://www.fossil-company.com/sites.html
   - Picture Gallery of Fossils
       http://www.fossil-company.com/gallery.html
   - Information on UK Geology
       http://www.fossil-company.com/uk_geology.html
ii) Geoscience Ltd - deep geotechnical services for Oil/Gas
    http://www.demon.co.uk/geosci/
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13. Journals and Bulletins
--------------------------
Many journals and bulletins have started appearing on the Web, either
as text or html documents. Some of the pointers include:
i) Jorg Schulz-Rojahn FAQ On-line Earth Science Journals (sedimentary
and petroleum bias)
   http://www.ncpgg.adelaide.edu.au/journals.htm
ii) Pointers to Journals and Periodicals in ORES (some of these
may not yet be posted, but they will be).
     - Geography and GIS
       http://www.gisnet.com/gis/ores/gis/journals.html
     - Oceanography
       http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/ocean/journals.html
     - Geology (General)
       http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/geology/journals.html
     - Volcanology
       http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/volcano/journals.html
     - Geochemsitry
       http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/geochem/journals.html
     - Geophysics
       http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/geophx/journals.html
     - Hydrology
       http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/hydo/journals.html
     - Paleontology
       http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/paleo/journals.html
iii) The Geological Society of America
    http://www.aescon.com/geosociety/pubs/bulletin.htm
iv)  Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    http://www.gly.bris.ac.uk/www/jmp/press.html
v) Geoscience Information Group of The Geological Society Newsletter
    http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Geol/gig/news/newsletters.html
vi) Disaster Research Newsletter from the Natural Hazards Research
    and Applications Center in Boulder, Colorado
     http://lorax.geog.scarolina.edu/geogdocs/envdocs/enviro.html
vii) Elsevier Press - Catalog on the Internet, Physical & Environmental
     Sciences
      http://www.elsevier.nl/catalog/SA2/Menu.html
viii-a) GeoRef CD Rom Information
   http://www.agiweb.org/agi/georef.html
viii-b) Contents and information on Geotimes Magazine
   gopher://agi.umd.edu:71/11/Geotimes
ix) The Hyperspectrum Newsletter - imaging spectroscopy for remote
   sensing, environmental monitoring, military target detection etc
   http://www.techexpo.com/WWW/opto-knowledge/hyperspectrum
x) SCIENCE Magazine on the Internet
   http://science-mag.aaas.org/science/
xi) The Historical Gazette (Oregon Based - Bridget Smith Editor)
   http://www.aracnet.com/~histgaz
xii) Tropical Geomorphology Newsletter - back issues
   http://www.zikzak.net/tgn
xiii) SCRIPPS Electronic Periodicals & Texts (Biology, Geology-Geophys,
Climate, Oceanography)
   http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/guide/publns.htm
xiv) The Natural Hazards Research Centre (at Macquarie Uni) newsletter
   http://www.es.mq.edu.au/NHRC/nhqnew.htm
xv) Books On-Line from the National Academy Press
   http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/
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14. Electronic Preprints and Supplements
----------------------------------------
A number of academic/research papers are appearing on the Web prior
to and after publication. The first two sites discuss various issues
pertaining to electronic publishing.
i) Journal of Electronic Publishing (University of Michigan Press)
   http://sansfoy.hh.lib.umich.edu:80/jep/
ii) Discussion of Electronic Publishing Issues via MIT
   http://www-cmpo.mit.edu/met_links/copyright.html
iii) Supplements to Atmospheric and Oceanic Publications (at MIT)
   http://www-cmpo.mit.edu/met_links/index.html
iv) Information About Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences E-Prints
   http://www.gfdl.goc/~smg/pointers/announcement.html
v) The Internet Science Journal
   http://www.sci-journal.com/ed/
vi) The Spatial Statistics Preprint Service administerd by Vincent Granville
   http://hp2.niss.rti.org/organization/personnel/granville/
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15.  Jobs
---------
i) Ted Smith's GEOSCI-JOBS archive
   ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/t/tcsmith/geosco-jobs
ii) JobSearch Links from NCPGG
   http://www.ncpgg.adelaide.edu.au/jobfind.htm
iii) Job Links from Mary Pettengill, U. Texas at Austin
   http://www.pe.utexas.edu/Dept/Reading/pejb.html
iv) GeoWeb GIS/GPS/RS Marketplace (US)
   http://www.ggrweb.com/job.html
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16.  Geological Surveys and Organisations
-----------------------------------------
i)   Australian Geological Survey Organisation
     http://www.agso.gov.au/
ii)  British Geological Survey
     http://www.nkw.ac.uk/bgs/index.html
  -- Geomagnetism Group
       http://ub.nmh.ac.uk/
iii)  Geological Survey of Canada
     http://emr1.emr.ca/gsc/
  -- Geological Survey of Canada, Atlantic
       http://agcwww.bio.ns.ca/
iv)  Geological Survey of Finland
     http://www.gsf.fi/
v)   Geological Society of America
     http://www.aescon.com/geosociety/index.htm
vi)  UK Geological Society
     http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Geol/gig/gig.html
vi)  AAPG
     http://www.geobyte.com/AAPG
vii) Geological Survey of Japan
     http://www.aist.go.jp/GSJ/
viii) American Geological Institute
     http://www.agiweb.org/
ix) The Paleontological Society
     http://www.uic.edu/orgs/paleo/homepage.html
x)  The American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists
     http://www.geology.utoronto.ca/AASP
xi) The British Antarctic Survey
     http://www.nerc-bas.ac.uk
xii) The American Geophysical Union
     http://earth.agu.org/kosmos/homepage.html
xiii) Americal Association of Petroleum Geologists
     http://www.NeoSoft.com/aapg/
xiv) The Association of Polish Geomorphologists
     http://hum.amu.edu.pl/~sgp/welcome.html
     -- The Virtual Geomorphologist
     http://hum.amu.edu.pl/~sgp/gw/gw.htm
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From: pingram@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au (Phil Ingram)
Date: 12 Nov 1996 07:40:27 +1100
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Last-modified: 1996/10/31
Using The Web for Earth Sciences Information on the Internet
Part 2: Software and Software Sites
This file was last updated on 31st October, 1996.
This faq is posted to the following news groups:
sci.geo.geology
sci.geo.hydrology
sci.geo.oceanography
comp.infosystems.gis
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/part2
iii) by anonymous ftp to:
     rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/geology-faq/geosci-resources/part2
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://atlas.es.mq.edu.au/users/pingram/v_earth.htm
The Soft Earth:    http://atlas.es.mq.edu.au/users/pingram/s_earth.htm
This faq is not to be used for commercial gain.
Phillip Ingram
pingram@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au
http://atlas.es.mq.edu.au/users/pingram/pingram.html
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This is part 2 of a 2 part FAQ on using the Web to obtain geosciences
information on the Internet. This part deals with software and related
data which would be of interest to geosciences.
The chances are, if you use this faq, you will be transferring software
from one computer to another for the purpose of running the software.
Many of these programs will have been compressed and/or encoded by one or more
of several techniques for storage and transfer purposes. The method
of compression/encoding is indicated by the file extension - the (usually)
three characters after the "." in the file name. The most common compression/
encoding schemes are:
.zip - pkzip is a dos standard compressor/archiver. Also on unix.
.lzh - pc compression from lha archiver
.zoo - zoo.exe is a compressor/archiver
.Z   - unix compression program
.tar - unix tape archive.
.hqx - binhex, binary to 8 bit ascii encoded, predominantly for the Mac,
       but pc versions do exist. Needs binhex4
.sea - self extracting archive for the Macintosh
.sit - stuffit compression for the Macintosh, found in binhex4.
.gz  - gzip is a Unix compression, pc versions as well.
.exe - self extracting archive, can be created from pkzip and lha.
.uue - unix to unix 7 bit encoding, Dos versions exist
Most of these are available from popular ftp sites such as Sumex-aim,
oak.oakland etc. For a listing of common file formats, and links to relevant
software, connect to the Common File Formats page (see below).
http://www.matisse.net/files/formats.html
A word of warning for Mac users, Mac binary files are stored differently
on a Unix machine than on a Mac (and Dos, VMS etc). Downloading a Mac
binary file (.bin, .sit etc) to a unix box which has not been encoded will
result in an unusable file. It is something to do with Unix zero filling
some of the unused bits in the Mac binary word.
0. CONTENTS
-----------
0.1 General Software Sites and Registers
0.2 Geology
  0.2.1 General Geology, Mining, Exploration
  0.2.2 Mineralogy/Petrology
  0.2.3 Structural Geology
  0.2.4 Marine Geology
  0.2.5 Hydrology
  0.2.6 Sedimentary Geology
0.3 Geophysics
0.4 Oceanography
0.5 Mathematical/Statistics/Geostatistics
0.6 GIS and Mapping
  0.6.1 General GIS/Mapping and Image Analysis
  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/Imaging Techniques
0.7 Map Data
0.8 Graphing/Plotting
0.9 Ray Tracing
0.10 Commercial Developers
Alterations in August, 1996
---------------------------
- added the All in One Search Page for Software by W. Cross
- added GISNet's BBS MapInfo Support Page with related shareware
- added ViewLog Systems page
- added Applied Global Technologies page
- added Phil Morgan's SeaWater toolkit for MatLab
- added Y. Song's TerrainMap terrain modelling software.
- added the WRCS Hydrology and Hydraulics Software page
- added Intermountain Digital Imaging page for QuadConvert.
- modified url for Kovach Computing
Alterations in September, 1996
- altered url for Bob's RockShop page
- altered Uni. Erlangen's geology software page
- altered url for Pangaea Scientific's page
- added John C Davis home page
- added John Coulthard's qgrid30 program
- added J. Shewchuk's Delauny Triangle page
- added Netlib's index for Voronoi and Delauny Triangles
- added U. Waterloo's Shareware for GIS
Additions in October, 1996
--------------------------
- added EPA's Groundwater model site
- added the ftp search engine
- added Software for remote Sensing by Bill Corner
- modified Oakland's dos/plot url
- modified Oakland's dos/mapping url
- modified Oakland's VSL mirror url
- modified entry for TMAP16
- modified entry for QGRID31
- modified the url for 3DEM
- added Johannes Duyster's Stereo-Nett program
- added Ken Wohletz's geological software
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1. GENERAL SOFTWARE SITES
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This section includes sites that have an assortment of software of
interest to geoscientists, and sites with hotlists to other sites.
i) http://www.shareware.com
Shareware.com has a searchable database which indexes over 190,000
software files around the Internet. Included are freeware, demos,
shareware, patches, fixes and upgrades. It was the Virtual Software Library.
ii) http://www.acs.oakland.edu/oak.html
The Oakland Software Repository has a large collection of MSDos,
Windows, Macintosh and Unix shareware utility and specific software.
  --  http://castor.acs.oakland.edu/cgi-bin/vsl-front
      Oakland's mirror of The Virtual Software Library front desk
      to search the OAK repository and other popular archive sites.
  --  http://oak.oakland.edu/simtel.net/
      Oakland's mirror of Walnut Creek CDROM Simtel.Net distribution
      site for MS-Dos, Windows and Win95 software
iii) http://town.hall.org/Harvest/brokers/pcindex/query.html
Harvest PC Software Broker, search the descriptors of over 34,000 PC software
distributions from 6 major public archives.
iv) http://www.gdb.org/DAN/softsearch/graph-links.html
Archives of Graphics Software and Databases is a hot-list of graphical
software sites maintained by Dan Jacobson at John Hopkins University,
BioInformatics server. The connection can be erratic, and you may need
to come in from the home page: http://www.gdb.org
   -- http://www.gdb.org/DAN/softsearch/softsearch.html
   You can also search various archives.
v) http://coyote.csusm.edu/cwis/winworld/winworld.html
The Windows Shareware Archive by the CSUSM Technical Services is a great
site for general Windows applications. Take a browse, there are some
software of interest for Geosciences.
vi) http://posc.org/
Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation is a supplier of standard interfaces
for technical exploration and production software for the Petroleum industry.
It operates as a Not For Profit membership organisation. This site
has information.
vii) http://www.albany.net/~wcross/all1srch.html#Software
The All In One Search Engine by William Cross has lists many search
engines for various catagories. This connection is for software.
viii) http://pubweb.nexor.co.uk/archie.html
ArchiePlex is an Archie Gateway to the World Wide Web. It can be used
to locate files on anonymous ftp sites around the world. This link gives
the most upto date list of ArchiePlex servers. There are forms based services
and those without forms.
ix) http://www.matisse.net/files/formats.html
The Common Internet File Formats lists the common file formats for
Macs and MS-Windows. Includes links to: 
  - http://ac.dal.ca/~dong/contents.html
  Allison Zhang's Multi media File Formats on the Internet (pc bias)
  - http://www.mps.org/~ebennett/
  Eric Bennett's Cross Platform Page
x) http://www.tucows.com/
The tucows server and its mirrors have Winsock utilities and other
application software for Windows, W4W and Win95.
xi) http://www.albany.net/allinone/all1soft.html#Software
The Software search engines listed in W. Cross' All In One Search Page.
xii) http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no/ftpsearch
A configurable search engine for software located on ftp servers.
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2. GEOLOGY
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2.1 General Geology/Mining/Exploration
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i) http://www.iamg.org
The IAMG's Web Server has links to its publications Mathematical Geology
and Computers in Geoscience.
     - ftp://iamg.org 
     The IAMG ftp Site has algorithms and source code of programs published
     in Computers and Geosciences (ftp://iamg.org/pub/CG) and Mathematical
     Geology (ftp://iamg.org/pub/MG).
     - http://www.emr.ca/gsc/iamg/cghome.html
     Index by Volumes of software published in C&G;
     - http://www.iamg.org/pub/Carr
     Computer programs and data from Jim Carr's book 'Numerical Analysis for
     the Geological Sciences.
ii) ftp://ftp.csn.org/COGS/
COGS, or Computer Orientated Geological Software archives of MS Dos
and Macintosh software, many include source code. Categories include
COGS disks, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Graphics, Hydrology, Landsat,
MOSS, Mapping, Mineralogy, Mining, Oil & Gas.
iii) gopher://dillon.geo.utep.edu:70/11EarthScienceRes/Software
GeoGopher Archives of Earth Science software at the University of Texas,
El Paso, has a collection of Dos based software for the geosciences and
connections to other sites.
iv) http://www.ned.dem.csiro.au/DEM/LEGACY/index.html
The Australian Mining Software Catalog is a directory of information
technology resources for exploration and mining. It lists both Australian
and International software suppliers. It is maintained by Stephen Henley
in a CSIRO initiative.
v) http://calvin.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu/geo/software/software_list
Some general geology software, mostly for the Mac. Software includes
Amphbase, Crystal 2.29 and CrystalView, Emp-amph, Hyperform,
Hornblende-plagioclase geothermometry, Image, Latticemaker,
Mac Molecule 1.7, MMII, Ortep, Pcwateq, P-T-t programs and Stereonet 4.9a
vi) http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/geology/data.html
Bill Thoen's and Ted Smith's Data and Software Resources from their
on-line ORES for general geology.
vii) http://camel.inggeo.tu-clausthal.de/eises/geosoftware-ftp.html
The Software Page at the Institute of Geology and Paleontology (EISES)
has some Dos/Windows software, some of which are mentioned elsewhere
at other sites. Software includes GeoVu (a NGDC Windows GIS/RS data
visualisation program), Landscape Explore (Windows program to translate
a 2D map into a 3D model), and GeoEAS (the EPA's geostatistical software).
viii) http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~bedrock/gsd/
The Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Software Directory is maintained
by Tim Spinks. It details several hundred programs, software publishers
and suppliers in the fields of Geotechnical Engineering, Engineering Geology,
Hydrogeology, Geo-environmental Engineering, Data Analysis and Data
Visualisation. There are links to other software lists.
ix) http://www.nsm.uh.edu/anonsoftware.html
University of Houston's ANON server, in conjunction with Computers and
Geosciences, has links to assorted software repositories and other links.
x) http://denr1.igis.uiuc.edu/isgsroot/dinos/software.html
Russ Jacobson's software links for Earth Scientists.
xi) http://xray.geol.uni-erlangen.de/html/software/soft.html
Assorted geology software for Windows, Dos, Mac and Unix. Compiled by 
S. Krumm. Programs include Winfit (profile analysis of x-ray reflections),
WinStruct (calculation of 001 x-ray patterns, structure factors and LP
factors for discrete clay minerals), WinQ-Fact ("Q" descriptor for mixed
layer clays), Atterberg, Centrifuge (calculate settling times), CrossBed,
Theta, Regression, MudMaster, MacDiff, MacGresens and more.
xii) http://geont1.lanl.gov/page1/Wohletz/Wohletz.htm
Ken Wohletz has developed a number of geological applications for volcanism
and magmatism. These are freeware and are for Windows (some Dos). They
include ERUPT to simulate various volcanic eruption types, HEAT is a 2D
heterogeneous heat flow solver (useful for modelling magma chamber evolution),
SFT is a graphical application to invert particle size data to find
distribution parameters, and MAGMA which calculates the IUGG volcanic rock
classification, CIPW norms, viscosity, and density of magmatic silicate
liquids from chemical composition and temperature.
2.2 Mineralogy/Petrology
------------------------
i) ftp://mac.archive.umich.edu/Crystal
Crystal and
    ftp://mac.archive.umich.edu/CrystalView
CrystalView are both Crystallography software for the MacIntosh by
Thomas Kosel.
ii) ftp://sparky2.esd.mun.ca/pub/geoprogs
Daryl Clarke's NewPet Software is a geochemical/igneous petrology data
handling program which includes ternary plots. MS-Dos and Shareware.
Also here are rose1 (rose plotting Windows prog by Thompson & Thompson),
triplot (ternary plotting prog by Baodke and Thompson), quickplot and
amphibol.
iii-a) ftp://ftp.csn.org/COGS/Mineralogy
      Mineralogy directory from COGS
iii-b) ftp://ftp.csn.org/COGS/Geochemistry
      Geochemistry directory from COGS
iv) http://www.unige.ch/crystal/prg-index.html
This is an alphabetised hot-list of assorted software available
for crystallography. Programs and platforms are varied. Software
includes ABSORB, BIOMOL, Ca.R.Ine, CrystalMaker and CrystalView, Diamond,
Powder Cell and more.
v) ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/geochemical/
The geochemical directory from the Environmental Hydrosystems ftp server
contains NewPet, QuickPlot, amphibol, ebeam, elements, fluids, kt,
ms-data, phreeq, platinum, wateqf, BTex, PCWater, phreeqe, phreeqep.
vi) http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/geochem/data.html
Bill Thoen's and Ted Smith's Data and Software Resources from their
on-line ORES for geochemistry.
vii) ftp://helios.cr.usgs.giv/ftp/statpac.dos   and
      ftp://helios.cr.usgs.giv/ftp/statpac.unx
Statpac for Unix and Dos from the USGS
viii) http://msgmac.geology.washington.edu/MeltsWWW/Melts.html
Melts is a software package for the modeling of crystallisation of
magmatic systems developed by the University of Washington. It
is available for a number of Unix platforms.
ix) http://www.rockshop.com/rockshop/software.html
Software for Rockhounds from Bob's Rock Shop has links to Mineral Mastery
(Dos mineral identification software), Gemstone, The Mineral Database and
Minlog System.
x) http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/chemdex/chem-software.html
Chemistry software sites maintained by Mark Winter. Some of these may
be useful for geochemistry.
xi) http://un2sg1.unige.ch/www/athena/html/science.html#2
Athena Mineralogy has links to assorted Dos/Windows software pertaining
to mineralogy.
xii) http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~tmg/thermo_links.html
Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria links by Terry Gordon has the areas of
Igneous Petrology (MELTS, QUILF), Metamorhic Petrology (GIBBS, P-T-t, TWQ,
WEBINVEQ) and Aqueous Geochemistry (EQ3/6, MBSSAS, MINEQLT, ALCHEMI).
xiii) http://superior.carleton.ca/~marshall/ternplot.htm
Daniel Marshall's C&G; preprint on Spreadsheets and Ternary Plots, plus
a downloadable spreadsheet.
xiv) http://www.agate.net/~ersoftwr/software.html
Environmental Research Software has made available various Dos software,
including MINEQL+ (a chemical equilibrium modeling system), Alchemi (to
calculate the distribution of Al in acidified waters) and GRiDS
(Global River Dilution System).
xv) http://copper.ucs.indiana.edu/~sbaedke/triplt.html
TriPlot is shareware software for Windows written by Steve Baedke from
Indiana University.
2.3 Structural Geology
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i) ftp://darwin.ibg.uit.no/pub/stereo/zip
Stereo v3.0 is a complete stereonet package for Windows. Get the
file stereo30.zip. It is by Per Ivar Steinsund and is shareware.
ii) ftp://silver.geo.cornell.edu/pub/rwa_programs
Rick Allmendinger's structural programs for the MacIntosh are quite
well regarded. Included are FaultKin, Stereonet, MacStrat, MacStress,
MicroStructure and Structure_Movies.
iii) ftp://sparky2.esd.mun.ca/pub/geoprogs
Mainly geochem prog, but also here is quickplot, a stereonet program for
structural geology by van Everdingen and van Gool.
iv) http://131.252.71.35/faculty/kmc/foldfile.htm
High amplitude folding simulation software by Kenneth Cruikshank.
v) http://hercules.geology.uiuc.edu/~schimmri/geology/structure.html#software
The software section in Steven Schimmrich's Structural Geology Page has links
to structual geology software.
vi) http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/www-public/neuserb6/stereo1.htm
Johannes Duyster's Stereo-Nett program is freeware for Windows 3.x and Win95.
It is a stereo net program to analyse orientation data using different
projections, great and small circles, density contouring, rose diagrams. It
can also do paleo-stress analysis from fault-slip data sets. Data can
be sorted on a number of criteria, including comments.
2.4 Marine Geology
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ia) ftp://ftp.nadn.navy.mil/pub/oceano/microdem
Microdem, includes the MGT subset for teaching marine geophysics,
is available from the US Naval Academy's ftp server.
ib) ftp://ftp.nadn.navy.mil/pub/oceano/oceanlab
Also available are a group of programs for oceanography including TS-Plot,
Waves, Tides, Duck, beach profiles, and marine geology.
2.5 Hydrology
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i) ftp://ftp.csn.org/COGS/Hydrology
The Hydrology directory from COGS
ii) ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/ENVIROMOD/
Environmental Hydrosystems Inc's ftp server has a comprehensive collection
of public domain software (Dos, Windows, some Unix) for groundwater,
porous media and environmental modeling.
The main directories of interest for hydrology are:
  - ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/ENVIROMOD/BIOPLUMEII/
  - ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/ENVIROMOD/CHEMFLOW/
  - ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/ENVIROMOD/GEOPACK/
  - ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/ENVIROMOD/GEOSTAT/
  - ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/ENVIROMOD/GRAPHICS/
  - ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/ENVIROMOD/GRAPHICS/
  - ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/ENVIROMOD/HSSM/
  - ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/ENVIROMOD/MODFLOW/
  - ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/ENVIROMOD/MOFAT/
  - ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/ENVIROMOD/MT3D/
  - ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/ENVIROMOD/PESTAN/
  - ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/ENVIROMOD/SUTRA/
  - ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/ENVIROMOD/SWIFTII/
  - ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/ENVIROMOD/VLEACH/
iii) http://gwrp.cciw.ca/internet/software.html
The Software for Groundwater Modeling and Analysis page by Andrew Piggott
has connections to both commercial and non-commercial software sites.
iv) http://199.227.7.95/ehisrvr.html
EnviroMod Software Server has environmental and hydrological software
connections.
v-a) http://www.et.byu.edu/~geos/staff/owens/groundwater.html#Models
The Groundwater Modeling department at Brigham Young Uni has an
extensive list/collection of groundwater modeling software, both commercial
and freebies. In the Models section can be found IGWMC (source code for
USGS models), CEAM from EPA, USGS Geochem models (Phreaqe and WATEQ4F),
2DFlow, PUMPIT, MCFIT plus others.
v-b) http://www.et.byu.edu/~geos/staff/owens/groundwater.html#PPP
In the Pre and Post Processes from BYU can be found links to Femmwater,
IRIS Explorer, Flow Analysis Software Toolkit, Khoros, SpyGlass and more.
vi) ftp://kilburn.keene.edu/Kilburn/ftp/GWM-L/
Source code for several of the USGS models.
vii) ftp://ftp.ccnet.com/users/aqualog/
The original location for PUMPIT by Aqualogic. PUMPIT is a Dos shareware
program which calculates drawdown, identifies the capture zone and
injection fronts etc. Version 4.0 is available.
viii) http://www.us.net/evisim/links.html
Environmental Simulations Inc. has software, services and information for
groundwater modeling. This connection is to their list of groundwater sites.
ix) http://aapg.geol.lsu.edu/rbwinsto.htm
Contains Dos executables  and source code for Modflow and its related
programs (ModFlowP, ZoneBudget, ModPath, SteramLink), plus other software
such as Sutra (2D finite element gwater flow model), SutraInv (parameter
estimation for Sutra), MOC89 (solute transport and dispersion), Plasm (2D
finite difference gwater flow) and TypCurv.
x) http://www.nmia.com/~interags/free/fretxt.html
ftp access to several public domain software available at other sites.
  -- http://www.nmia.com/~interags/index/indtxt.html
Intera Inc. also have a description index of software of interest to
hydrologists.
xi) ftp://engr.orst.edu/pub/swmm/pc
    ftp://engr.orst.edu/pub/swmm/workstation
Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) was developed by U. Oregon and EPA. It is
a comprehensive water quality simulation model developed primarily for urban
areas. It performs single event and continuous simulation for almost all
components of rainfall, runoff and quality cycles for a watershed. Dos and
Unix versions.
xii) http://www.et.byu.edu/~geos/faculty/jonesn/asce/geotech/software/home.html
The ASCE Geotechnical Engineering has a page that provides thins to
Seepage/Groundwater Modeling software. Web users can create and edit their
own entry. Links include Boss International, EarthSoft, Draper Adam
Environmental Modeling, DoD Groundwater Modeling System, AFEPT, EQ3/6, PEST
and the US EPA Groundwater Software Modeling.
xiii) http://aapg.geol.lsu.edu/mfh_rec.htm
This is the Internet Resources Page of the Modflow Help File. The MFH
needs to be downloaded and run locally.
xiv) http://www.wa.gov/ecology/eils/pwspread.html
Several spreadsheets were developed by the Washington State Dept of
Ecology's Environmental Investigations and Laboratory Services Program
to aid NPDES permit writers. All of the spreadsheets are in seperate Lotus
123 WK1 files and have also been combined and reformatted in Excel 5.
Included are DOSAG2, IDOD2, NH#FRESH, NHRSALT, PHMIX2, RIVPLUM5, WQBP2 and
FARFIELD.
xv) http://www.umanitoba.ca/geo_eng/Groundwater/
The University of Manitoba groundwater ftp site and data base is available
through their web page. Also contains links to other groundwater sites.
xvi) http://aapg.geol.lsu.edu/rbwinsto.htm
Richard Winston's home page has a good collection of links to software sites
for groundwater modelling, wetlands, ModFlow and the like.
xvii) http://terrassa.pnl.gov:2080/EESC/resourcelist/hydrology/software.html
The Earth Environmental Science Center (EESC) maintains a list of links
to software and models for hydrology.
xviii) http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/2175/
Hidrosoft has many links to water related freeware, shareware and
commercial software for hydraulics, hydrology, water resources and
the environment.
xix) http://grwp.cciw.ca/internet/gwcan-archive/0042.html
The ModFlow Resources Page by Richard Winston has many links to ModFlow
and related software such as ModUser, ModFlowP, MT3D etc
xx) http://www.mines.edu:8080/fs_home/wwingle/uncert/
UNCERT is a public domain geostatistical analysis and graphical user
interface for ModFlow and MT3D on Unix Systems developed by W. Wingle,
E. Poeter and S. McKenna. It is a geostatistical uncertainty analysis
package applied to groundwater flow and contamination transport modelling.
    http:// gale.mines.edu/uncert/manual/contents/contents.html
    The UNCERT Users Guide On-Line.
xxi) http://www.epa.gov/ada/models.html
EPA's Groundwater and Vadose Zone models available from CSMoS. Available
software includes Bioplume II, Bioscreen, ChemFlow, GeoPack, HSSM, ModFlow,
Mofat, MT3D, Pestan, RETC, Ritz, STF, Unsoda, Vleach, WhAEM and WHPA
2.6 Sedimentary Geology
-----------------------
i) gopher://strix.udac.uu.se:70/40/palun/fuzzim.sea.hqx
Fuzzim (stored as a binhexed self extracting archive) are Macintosh programs
for simulating large scale marginal deposition and erosion for
long time spans. It uses "fuzzy logic" for controlling the distribution
of sediment. It was written by Ulf Nordland and Magnus Silfversparre of
Uppsala University, Sweden.
iia) http://www.geosc.psu.edu/~sedweb/sedlab_html/sedlab.html
Software from the Basin Research Lab, Sedimentary Geology, Penn State.
Includes SSM (simulating clastic sedimentary basins), GOLEM (geophysical
landcsape evolution model) and MIDAS (model investigating density and
size sorting.
iib) http://www.geosc.psu.edu/~sedweb/sedgeol_html/freeware.html
Software from the Basin Research Group, Sedimentary Geology, Penn State.
Includes Strata 2.1, a basin modelling tool.
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3. GEOPHYSICS
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i) ftp://pong.igpp.ucla.edu/pub/pbird
Thin Plate Finite Element Code developed by Peter Bird at UCLA since 1976
can be used to model the deformation of the lithosphere, form new tectonic
hypotheses, estimate long term seismic hazards and study plate rheology.
You should also mail Peter (pbird@ess.ucla.edu) to let him know
which files you copied and to be placed on the mail-list for updates.
Fortran source code is available.
ii) ftp://mantle.colorado.edu/pub/PaleoMag or
    http://cires.colorado.edu/people/jones.craig/CHJ_PMag_overview.html
PaleoMag software for the MacIntosh by Craig Jones. It supports
orthorhombic, equal area and J/J0 diagrams (total and component) of
individual sample demagnetisations, least squares fit of lines, planes,
circles to parts of demagnetisation curves.
Email Craig (cjones@mantle.colorado.edu) to be placed on the
mailing list for updates. Craig has also placed PaleoMag onto a web server,
plus an on-line manual.
iii) ftp://hilbert.mines.colorado.edu/pub/cwpcodes   or
     http://cwp.mines.colorado.edu:3852/
Seismic CWP/SU Package is geophysical seismic code for Unix machines
from the Center for Wave Phenomena.
iv) ftp://earth.eps.pitt.edu/pub
The World Paeo-Magnetic Database are databases and programs related
to paleomagnetism.
v) ftp://ftp.csn.org/COGS/Geophysics
Geophysics directory from COGS
vi) http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/geophx/data.html
Bill Thoen's and Ted Smith's Data and Software Resources from their
on-line ORES for geophysics.
vii) ftp://dmc.iris.washington.edu/pub/programs/sel/ibmpc
     ftp://dmc.iris.washington.edu/pub/programs/sel/mac
     ftp://dmc.iris.washington.edu/pub/programs/sel/sun
The IRIS Software Exchange Library ftp server has geophysical software
for pc, mac and sun platforms. Included in the pc directory are SEISMIC
(displays hypocenters of earthquakes for various map views from 1960 to
the present) and SUDS (Seismic Unified Data System). Under sun are SUDS,
Seismo_Display, cc2sac, evt2sac, evalresp, focmec, neic2tf and relish.
viii) ftp://ftp.cs.wits.ac.za/pub/general/geophys
Geophysical freeware for Dos written by Gordon Cooper. Includes Mag2dc
(magnetic forward modeling), Grav2dc (gravity forward modeling), GeoModel
(sim. mag & grav fwd modeling), VES (Schlumberger res modeling and
inversion), SignProc (prfile data filtering), PFproc (map data filtering,
strike filters, derivatives etc) and GravMap (map data filtering:
continuation, polynomial surface fits etc).
ix) ftp://garlock.wr.usgs.gov/pub/PROGRAMS
Some geophysical programs (for unix/vms) from Menlo Park ftp server.
Includes Paleo stress analysis by Andy Michael, 3D velocity model
determination and hypocenter location.
x) ftp://ftp.seismo.usbr.gov/pub/outgoing/epic3.tar.Z
Epic3 suite of progs are for Unix. They read the event CD-Roms (version 3)
from the NEIC ie hypo-center associated data plus the NEIC event catalog.
From Dan O'Connell and the Seismotectonics group of the US Bureau of
Reclamation.
xi) http://psn.quake.net/software.html
    ftp://psn.quake.net/software
Winquake software by Larry Cochrane (Windows and Win95) is to view and
analyse Public Seismic Network and SAC binary event files. It uses
Jeffreys-Bullens tables for travel times for a series of depths.
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4. OCEANOGRAPHY
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i) http://www.aos.princeton.edu/htdocs.pom
POM is a sigma coordinate free surface, primitive equation ocean model
for Unix. It is distributed free to tertiary institutions for research
purposes. The code is available from the following ftp server:
        ftp://ftp.gfdl.gov/pub/glm/
ii) http://www.gfdl.gov/~kd/MOMwebpages/MOMWWW.html
MOM (Unix) is a primitive equation general ocean circulation model for
exploring ocean and coupled air-sea applications over a wide range
of space and time scales. Source code is available from:
       ftp://ftp.gfdl.gov/pub/GFDL_MOM2/
iii) http://ftp://ahab.rutgers.edu/pub/spem/src/
SPEM is a 3D ocean circulation model for a variety of studies.
It uses horizontal boundary-fitted orthogonal coordinates, a vertical
bathymetry following sigma coordinate and solves 3D primitive equations.
Source code is available from:
       ftp://ahab.rutgers.edu/pub/spem/src/
iv) http://www.ocgy.ubc.va/oceanography.links.html
University of British Colombia has links to assorted numerical models
(including the above) for oceanography. Look for the sections
On-Line Numerical Models and Source Code for Models Not Mentioned Above.
Model include FRAM, ECOM-si, POP, Spectral Element Shallow Water Equation
Model, Box Basin and Massively Parallel versions of Miami Isopycnic
Coordinate Ocean Model, MOMA, OCCAM/NWO and MICOM.
v) http://www.calweb.com/~tcsmith/ores/geology/ocean/data.html
Bill Thoen's and Ted Smith's Data and Software Resources from their
on-line ORES for oceanography.
vi) ftp://twinky.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/LinkWinds
LinkWinds (Linked Windows Interactive Data System) is developed by
NASA/JPL for interactive 2D and 3D graphical display of data. It runs
on SGI platforms under IRIX4 and IRIX5, and Sun under Solaris 2.4.
vii) http://case50.ncsl.nist.gov/xtide/xtide.html
xtide is free software by David Flater. It is a Harmonic Tide Clock and
Tide Predictor for Unix (x-windows). You do need harmonic constants though.
viii) http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/OCDST/ocdst_main.html
The main page for the Ocean Color web site, a section of the GSFC DAAC.
They have software which uses data from visible light bands from satellites
and aircrafts to measure ocean features. Two main parts, CZCS and SeaWiFS.
- Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS)
http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/OCDST/czcs_software_and_services.html
CZCS-related software includes SEAPAK, the data processing software, plus
software to read DSP, CRTT and HDF files, and a collection of user contributed
tools.
- SeaWiFS
http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/OCDST/seawifs_software_and_services.html
SeaWiFS-related software includes SEADAS processing and image analysis
 software for HDF data, and SEATRAK - orbit prediction software.
- ftp://pro.msrc.sunysb.edu/mod
Map Ocean Data (MOD) is windows based freeware to view oceanographic data
in a geographic context.
ix) ftp://aqueous.ml.csiro.au/pub/morgan/seawater
SeaWater is a toolkit of MatLab routines for calculating the properties
of seawater, and is developed by Phil Morgan. They are a self contained
library and run on all computers that support MatLab. Seawater is freeware.
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5. MATHEMATICAL/STATISTICS/GEOSTATISTICS
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i) ftp://ulimin1.unil.ch/pub/geostat
Geostatistics software at the Inst. of Mineralogy at the University of
Lausanne, carries the US EPA GeoEAS geostatistical program (Dos),
a geostatistical tool box (Dos) and VarioWin, a windows set of programs
for 2D spatial data analsysis.
ii) http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/
The StatLib Archives has an extensive collection of statistical
software and algorithms. It is divided into a number of catagories
based upon the resources origin, eg apstat is for algorithms from
Applied Statistics, cmlib is the Core Mathematics Library from NIST
which has fortran code for lots of statistical and numerical
procedures, griffiths-hill has applied statistics algorithms contained in
the book by Griffith Hill, multi has an annotated directory and selected
algorithms on multi-variate analysis and clustering.
iii) http://www.netlib.org/
The Netlib Archives repository at UTK and ORNL carry a very extensive
collection of mathematical software. Some of the categories include
image, linpak, voronoi, fftpack, scilib, graphics and gnu. It is also
possible to do an Attribute/Value Data Base Search of the Netlib
repository (http://www.netlib.org/nse/netlib-query.html).
iv) ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopas
Numerical Recipes for Pascal are available from the Garbo archive. Get
the file nrpas13.zip. Be warned, this is over 300 Kb compressed and 772 Kb
uncompressed.
v) http://www-brad.geosc.uh.edu/software.htm
Software for Mathematical Geology at Houston University.
vi) http://www.gamma.rug.nl/sibyl.html
The Sibyl Database is a searchable database of information on statistical
software.
vii) ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/geostatistics/
The geostatistics directory from the Environmental Hydrosystems ftp server
contains software such as GeoEAS (the Geostatistical Environmental
Exposure Assessment Software from the US EPA), COSIM (performs
unconditional and co-conditional simulations), LOGEN (unconditional
simulations), ISIM3D (a 3D multiple indicator conditional simulation
program), GCOSIM3D (code for the generation of realisations of multiple
variates jointly correlated with a multiGaussian distribution), plus others
including UNCERT, UCLA.
viii) http://www.geosc.uh.edu/AnonSoftware.html
The ANON Web site at the University of Houston is for those interested
in mathematics, computers and geosciences. This link is their software
and modeling resources page with many connections.
ix) ftp://banach.stanford.edu/gslib/
Fortran code for the geostatistics package from Stanford University.
Authored by C.V. Deutsche and A.G.Journel. Is a .tar.Z file.
x) http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~watson/homepage.html
Dave Watson's home page, with information on Delauny tringulation,
contouring etc. Source code for delauny tesselations, plus access to
time series prediction software (Dynamical Data Determinism Detector).
xi) http://lusk1.mines.edu/hjjou/linux_prg.html
Scientific Software for Linux contains links to assorted mathematical,
statistical, graphical software and libraries for Linux operating systems.
xii) http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~tomek/htmls/num_meth.html
Numerical Methods Links by Tomasz Plewa is a great collection of links
to assorted mathematical packages and libraries, centers and other sites.
xiii) ftp://ftp.mathworks.com/pub/books/mathews/fortran/
Fortran code of the software supplements for Numerical Methods for
Mathematics, Science and Engineers by John Mathews
xiv) http://atlas.es.mq.edu.au/users/pingram/sware.htm
Phil Ingram's statistical software for dos machines is a collection of
4 programs for a variety of purposes. Included are:
     http://atlas.es.mq.edu.au/users/pingram/software/ustat301.zip
     USTAT - procedures for the analysis of uni and bivariate data
     http://atlas.es.mq.edu.au/users/pingram/software/mstat301.zip
     MSTAT - procedures for the analysis of multivariate data
     http://atlas.es.mq.edu.au/users/pingram/software/kstat301.zip
     KSTAT - geostatistical procedures (varigrams and block kriging) for
             grade/tonnage calculations of ore deposits
     http://atlas.es.mq.edu.au/users/pingram/software/sstat301.zip
     SSTAT - procedures for the generation and analysis of gridded data
xv) ftp://ftp.ucar.edu/dsl/lib/
Assorted libraries of fortran mathematical routines of possible interest
to the earth sciences. Included are spherepack, fftpack, fitpack, minpack,
linpack.
xvi) http://www-sst.unil.ch/geostatistics.html
Geostatistical software for the PC, with links to VarioWin (plus the
VarioWin FAQ), EPA's GeoEAS and Roland Froievaux'x Geostatistical
Toolbox.
xvii)ftp://math.arizona.edu/incoming/unix.geoeas/
This is the unix version of EPA's GeoEAS software.
    http://eratos.erin.utoronto.ca/fcs/GEO/geoeas.html
    The online documentation for the unix version of GeoEas. Be warned,
    it is 234 Kb in size.
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6. GIS and Mapping
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Sections 6.3, 6.4 and 6.5 mainly deal with specialised mapping and GIS
techniques and software, of which I know very little. Consequently, I
took the reference to these sites from Bill Thoen's ORES,
figuring that his judgement will be better than mine on these subjects.
6.1 General GIS/Mapping and Image Analysis
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i) ftp://ftp.blm.gov/pub/gis
An assortment of Dos software for GIS and mapping, cartographic
transformations, raster to vector conversions and so on. It includes
programs like skmoss (replaces 4 programs in pcmoss), gctpc (Dos version
of general cartographic transformations), las (land analysis system),
pcglis (pc version of glis), dcw2dxf (dcw to dxf conversions) topo and
xglis. The site is maintained by Sol Katz.
ii) http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/soest/gmt.html
Generic Mapping Tools is Unix software developed at the School of
Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaii by
Paul Wessel and Walter H. F. Smith. It contains about 50 tools for
map projections, spatial interpolation, contouring, 3-D perspective views,
and data manipulation. Source code is in Kernighan & Richie C for Unix
machines. The latest version is 3.0 and the page gives details on how
to obtain it from one of several sites.
iii) ftp://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/software/topo
Topographic Analysis fortran source code.
iv) ftp://jupiter.drev.dnd.ca/pub/gis/vpfview
VPFView 1.1 is Unix software to view DCW data from the DMA's Digital
Chart of the World CD-ROM data set.
v) ftp://moon.cecer.army.mil/grass
GRASS GIS is a public domain GIS and image processing system for Unix
developed by the US Army Corps of Engineers.
vi) ftp://charon.er.usgs.gov/pub
MAPGEN/PLOTGEN is the code for a public domain graphics system.
The files are compressed-tar source files. Files include:
graphics-?.?.tar.Z: device independent vector graphics system
employed by the Mapgen/Plotgen system; mapgen.?.?.tar.Z is the mapgen/plotgen
system for plotting geographic and other data (requires pre-installed
'proj' and 'graphics'); xzoom.?.?.tar.Z is the previewer of mapgen/plotgen
graphic data.
vii) ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/Access_Tools
The National Geophysical Data Center ftp server has a number of
Dos based generic data analysis, display, compression, archival and
retrieval tools. Software includes FREEFORM, GeoVu and GeoDas.
viii) ftp://nmdpow9.er.usgs.gov/
The USGS Cartographic Software by the National Mapping Division of
the USGS provide data and supporting software for the national series
of base cartographic data. The software are for a variety of platforms.
ix-a) ftp://ftp.csn.org/COGS/Landsat
      The Landsat directory from COGS
ix-b) ftp://ftp.csn.org/COGS/Moss
      The Moss directory from COGS
ix-c) ftp://ftp.csn.org/COGS/Mapping
      The Mapping directory from COGS
x) ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/simtelnet/msdos/mapping/
   http://oak.oakland.edu/simtel.net/msdos/mapping.html
The Mapping directory of the Simtel mirror at Oakland contains various
mapping software for Dos. Included are topo300.zip (3-D topographic map
plotting program), emap100*.zip (the EPI Map program with utilities, and USA
coverage by counties), coordchg.zip (convert map coords dd.mm.ss<->dd.###)
and ozd101?.zip (OzGIS is a Dos Mapping program of census/GIS data).
xi) http://www.gisnet.com/gis/ores/gis/data.html
The GIS Data and Software page from Bill Thoen's and Ted Smith's On-Line
ORES.
xii) ftp://ftp.esri.com/arcview1
Arcview 1.0 for Windows by ESRI is available from this ftp site. Be sure
to read the licence agreement.
xiii) http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis.html
     ftp://iris.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/vis5d
     ftp://iris.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/visad
The Space, Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) at Uni. of Wisconsin-
Madison makes 2 software packages, Vis5D and VisAD, freely available. These
are scientific visualisation systems for a number of Unix workstations.
Both executables and source code is available. Vis5D has been setup so
output from atmosphere and ocean models can be linked to Web pages.
xiv) http://www.usgs.gov/research/gis/software.html
GIS Software at the USGS. Main catagories are:
  -- ftp://geology.usgs.gov/pub/GIV/
     Geologic Information Visualisation for the PC
  -- ftp://nmdpow9.er.usgs.gov/public/gctpc
     General Cartographic Transformation Package (GCTP)
  -- http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/html/software.html
     Mapping Science Software from the National mapping Division, which
     includes Cartographic Applications Software, Global Land Information
     System (GLIS), RevPG - Digital Line Graph Editing, Symbolised Display
     and Plotting Software, ATSys - Aero Triangulation System Software,
     Public Domain Software for use with the USGS Digital Geospatial Data
     (IMDISP, DLGVIEW, DLGTODXF and CHOP)
xv) http://dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu/~biehl/MultiSpec/
MultiSpec is an image processing system for interactively analysing
multispectral data such as Landsat or hyperspectral data from AVIRIS Imaging
Spectrometer. It is wirtten for the Macintosh and Power Mac by Larry Biehl
and the Laboratory for Applications in Remote Sensing at Purdue University.
xvi) http://www.iti.gov.sg/iti_people/iti_staff/kflai/gsnake.html
     http://www.cs.wisc.edu/computer-vision/projects/gsnake.html
GSNAKE API software provides tools for contour modelling, extraction,
detection and classification based on the Generalized Active Contour Model.
It was developed jointly by Information Technology Institute, Singapore, and
School of Applied Science, NTU, Singapore. C++ source code is compilable on
many unix boxes.
xvii) http://www.chemie.uni-marburg.de/image.html
NIH-Image is excellent public domain image analysis software for the Macintosh
xviii) ftp://ftp.coast.net/SimTel/win3/gis/surface2.zip
SURFACE is a Windows program for gridding and displaying a surface or contour
map. Surface2.zip replaces surface. By W. J. Coulthard and is shareware.
xix) ftp://ftp.coast.net/SimTel/msdos/mapping/vmap150.zip
VERSAMAP v1.50 is DOS shareware by Charles Culberson. It draws outlines of
maps on 14 map projections.
xx) ftp://ftp.wizvax.net/personal/victorf/inverse.zip
INVERSE computes the distance between two points with Lat/Long. It is by
Vic Fraenckel
xxi) ftp://ftp.ngs.noaa.gov/pub/pcsoft/for_inv.3d/
The National Geodetic Survey has Inverse and Forward programs with source
code for MSDos machines.
xxii) java.ei.jrc.it/rem/gregoire/softfaq2.html
Gregoire Dubois maintains the AI-Geostats Mailing List FAQ. This is a
description of the freeware and commercial software commonly used for
spatial data analysis, plus links.
xxiii) http://homepage.interaccess.com/~maynard/software.htm
Software links from The Land Surveying and Geomatics Page (maintained
by Maynard Riley) has a number of links to assorted software related to
mapping, DEM, coordinate conversions, surveing and the like.
xxiv) http://www.uni-sb.de/philfak/fb6/fr66/tpw/s-ware/s-ware.htm
The Institute of Biogeography has a software archive for Windows based
GIS shareware and freeware. Included are Geo-Vu, OzGIS 4 Windows,
IDRISI Modules, Fragstats, Surface Interpolator, US 3D Atlas, Landscape
Explorer, Map Maker and GADS.
xxv) http://www.gisnet.com/gis/mapinfo
GISNet's BBS' MapInfo Support page, with access to free files, faq etc
    - ftp://ftp.csn.net/mapinfo
      Related shareware for Map Info
xxvi) http://oak.oakland.edu/pub/simtelnet/win95/math/tmap16.zip
      ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/simtelnet/win95/math/tmap16.zip
TerrainMap 1.6 by Yiping Song is Win95 and WinNT shareware software designed
for terrain surface modeling. It takes in spatial sampling data, contour
data or grid data and generates 3D spatial models. Three spatial models
are supported: Triangulated Irregular Networks (TIN); Contour; and Digital
Elevation Models (DEMs) or grid model.
xxvii) http://oak.oakland.edu/pub/simtelnet/win3/math/qgrid31.zip
       ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/simtelnet/win3/math/qgrid31.zip
QuikGrid v3.1 is a Windows 3.1 shareware program by  John Coulthard. It
will read in a set of x-y-z surface points, generate a regular grid and
display the surface as a contour map or as a grid. The display may be zoomed,
printed, output to a DXF file or in the ER Mapper raster format. It will
generate a 125x125 grid from 16,000 data points.
xxviii) http://bordeaux.uwaterloo.ca/info/share.html
Links to assorted GIS freeware and shareware software sites.
xxix) http://www.man.ac.uk/Arts/geography/rs/
The Software section in Bill Corner's RS Web Resources page has links to
assorted commercial and public domain RS related software.
6.2 Cartographic Converters and Transformations
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i) ftp://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/software/gctpc
The General Cartographic Transformation Package is the c code for
various various cartographic conversions such as Lat/Long<->UTM.
The C code was originally written for Unix.
   -- ftp://isdres.er.usgs.gov/pub/usgs/gctp/
      The older version, GCTP-II, is also available.
ii) ftp://kai.er.usgs.gov/pub/PROJ.4
This ftp site is now the official distribution site of the PROJ.4 system.
PROJ.4 is a system of programs for various general cartographic projections
and conversions, including  geographic or grid data between Nth American
Datum 27 and 83 plus SPCS & UTM coord systems for the US regions.
Included here is the source distribution for the programs PROJ, GEOD
and NAD2NAD (for Unix, bat adaptable for Dos), the DOS executable for
Version 4.3.3, other sundry files plus the PD.projections.FAQ. Get the
README file for a description of what's there.
iii) http://www.epa.gov/region10/www/softlib.html
The U.S. EPA's dbf utility package (v5.5) is a set of programs for
converting between INFO and DBF as well as INFO and ASCII, DBF to point
coverage. They are programs tested on a number of Unix platforms, and run
with Arc/Info 6.1.1 or 7.0.2. The complete source code is also available.
iv) http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PC_PROD/pc_prod.html
Another site for UTM_Lat/Long conversions, but this software supposedly
allows for batch processing.
v) ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/geostatistics/BLMGIS/
The geostatistics directory from the Environmental Hydrosystems ftp server
contains the BLMGIS program for Dos. This performs coordinate conversions
between Geodetic (Lat/Long) and State Plane coordinate (SPC) systems
based on the North American Datum of 1927.
vi) http://www.connect.net/jbanta
John Banta's Coordinate Transformation Page, contains Windows coordinate
conversion software, to convert lat/long and X/Y anywhere in the Northern
Hemisphere using the UTM projection, and anywhere in the US using US State
Plane projections. From the SeisSoft company.
vii) ftp://ftp.ngs.noaa.gov/pub/pcsoft/spcs83/
SPCS83 was developed by the National Geodetic Survey for converting
from Lat/Long to State Plane Coords and back. Fortran source code is
here.
  - ftp://ftp.ngs.noaa.gov/pub/pcsoft/utms
  Converts GPS to Universal Transverse Mercator coords and vice versa
  for the NAD27 and NAD83 datum.
viii) ftp://wizvax.net/pub/personal/victorf
The Windsway Co. has assorted Dos software for various conversions
involving Lat/Longs, UTM and other map references. Included are
rule2ll, ll2rule, inverse, direct, utm2ll, ll2utm.
ix) ftp://ftp.ucar.edu/dsl/lib/tlcpack/
TLCPACK is a library of fortran routines for the regridding of uniform and
non-uniform orthoganal grids.
6.3 Arc/Info AML Code
---------------------
i) ftp://dis2qvarsa.er.usgs.gov/amls
AMLs for ARC/INFO 5.0, 6.11
ii) ftp://dis2qvarsa.er.usgs.gov/data/giras
AMLs for GIRAS data.
iii) ftp://wigeo.wu-wien.ac.at/pub/acdgis-l/aml
Another AML site.
iv) ftp://wigeo.wu-wien.ac.at/pub/acdgis-l/sml
AML for PC Arc/Info.
v) ftp://ftp.esri.com/public/www/scripts
AMLs and SMLs from ESRI's ftp server
6.4 Digital Elevation Models (DEMs)
----------------------------------
i) ftp://ftp.blm.gov/gis/microdem.zip
MicroDEM, Pascal programs to do things with DEM data (shareware).
ii) ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3
    Splat at Indiana or
    ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/msdos
    Splat at NIC:
    SPLAT is contouring software. Get the file SPLATSFX.EXE which is
    a self-extracting archive.
iii) ftp://ahab.rutgers.edu/pub/gridpak
GRIDPAK is 3D gridding software for unix. Written in C, with makefiles
and uses mud2 version 3. Other applications include XCOAST2, an X-application
for drwaing grid boundaries of the (?US) coastline, and fine & coarse
resolutioncoastlines for xgrid, plus etopo5 bathymetry/topography data.
iv) http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html
The US GeoData FTP Access site has links to public domain software for DEMs
plus access to a variety of USGS digital data sets eg 1:2,000,000 and
1:100,000 Digital Line Graphs.
6.5 Specialised GIS/Mapping/Imaging Techniques
----------------------------------------------
i) ftp://princeton.edu/pub/Graphics/RTNews/RTNv5n3.Z
Point in Polygon, Fastest Point on Polygon test by Eric Haines, in
Ray Tracing News, v5, no.3, Sept, 1992.

ii) ftp://ftp.mv.com/pub/ddj/dec94 Voronoi Tesselations source code in article Spatial Data and the Voronoi Tesselations in Dr. Dobbs Journal, Dec. 1992. iii) ftp://shelf.ersc.weic.edu/pub/ Linear Time Algorithm Program, the DOS executable of the code published in IJGIS, 1993, Vol. 7, No. 6. Retrieve the file CHITVD.ZIP. Documentation in CHITVD.DOC. iv) ftp://netlib.att.com:netlib/voronoil/sweep2.Z Theissen Polygons, C source code for calculating the vectors for Theissen Polygons. v) ftp://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/mccauley/grass/s.voroni s.voroni: the GRASS module. vi) ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SGI/MinMaxer MinMaxer from NCSA is a triangulation method that does the Delauny Triangulation. vii) ftp://ftp.mv.com/pub/ddj QUAD.ASC is source code for image processing using quadtrees. It includes unpublished source code and input data which accompany's Ray Dash's article on using quadtrees for raster-image processing. viii) http://www.pact.srf.ac.uk/~simonw ImgStar is a set of image processing tools written in c (?for Unix). It is intended to be used in conjuntion with Jef Poskanzer's pbmplus toolkit for coordinate/file conversions. ix) http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/cartlab/geotiff/geotiff.html GeoTIFF 1.0 file format and specifications, plus Beta GeoTIFF software using the public domain LIBTIFF package. GeoTIFF is a collaborative effort by a number of remote-sensing and cartographic raster data providers and software vendors to establish a standard for geographically-orientated raster-format data interchange using a standard TIFF tag extension. x) http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/%7Emxr/gfx The Graphics File Formats Home Page, formerly by Ian Tweedie and now maintained by Martin Reddy. Notes, examples and code for a vast array of graphics file formats. Can search the archives and the FAQ. xi) http://lake.mit.edu/~glenn/kirill/saga.html The SaGA Spatial and Geometric Analysis Toolbox for MatLab is by Kirill Pankratov. The toolbox deals with geometry and planar, spherical, three-dimensional, and multi-dimensional data. xii) http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/wrf/pnpoly.html Wm. Randolph Franklin has placed Fortran source for a Point Inclusion in Polygon Test. xiii) http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/sdts/ The Spatial Data Transfer Standard is a robust way of transferring earth-referenced spatial data between dissimilar computer systems. xiv) http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake/triangle.html Triangle is freeware by Jonathan Shewchuk. It is a 2D quality mesh generator and Delauny triangulator. It is capable of generating exact, constrained and quality forming Delauny triangles. xv) http://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/index.html The index page for the Netlib entries for Voronoi and Delauny Triangles -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. MAP DATA ----------- i) ftp://spectrum.xerox.com/pub/map/ Xerox's ftp site is described by Bill Thoen as a goldmine for Map Datasets for DEM, DTM, TIGER data exchange for all kinds of public domain map data.

ii) ftp://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/data The EROS Data Center has 1:100,000 and 1:2,000,000 Digital Line Graph land use/land cover and 1:250,000 Digital Elevation Models of the U.S.A. There are also numerous Arc/Info coverages and AML's. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. GRAPHING/PLOTTING i) ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/simtelnet/msdos/plot http://oak.oakland.edu/simtel.net/msdos/plot.html This directory on the Oakland software ftp repository has plotting programs for geoscientists. Included are: grphc27.zip - Graphica scientific graphing program is great; For piper and ternary plot programs get the files piper10.zip and triplt22.zip. Try searching for these at Oakland's Web server (see above). ii) ftp://hydrosystems.com/pub/graphics Assorted graphics, plotting and mapping software from Environmental Hydrosystems, including cad, acadlisp, alog101, dcw, jk2var,jkplot, imgproc, makgrph5, ok206, rareplot, tplot44, triplt, ungvec, xgplot, GIV (Dos), Contour (Dos), gnuplot (Dos & Unix), gridding, khoros (Unix), giras, assorted mapping and DEM software. iii) http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/~baum/ocean-graphics.html Software for Graphics and Data Analysis is a collection of links to software and tools collected by S. Baum of texas A&M; University. Mostly for Linux. The main links are to: - http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/~baum/graphics-graph.html Mainly graphics orientated - http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/~baum/graphics-analysis.html Mainly numerical analysis - http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/~baum/graphics-formats.html Mainly data formats - http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/~baum/graphics-comm.html Commercial Packages But also has links to Symbolic Mathematics, GUI development systems, wavelet software/information and spectral analysis. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. RAY TRACING -------------- i) http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/Ray.Tracing/ Ray Tracing home page - list of pointers to many freeware ray tracers ii) ftp://ftp-graphics.stanford.edu/pub/Graphics/RTNews/html/rtnv6n3.html#art4 Summary of free ray traces iii) http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/~cek/rayshade/rayshade.html Rayshade is a popular ray tracer. iv) http://www.coast.net/cgi-bin/coast/dwn?win3/gis/3dem14.zip 3DEM (version 1.4) is a 3D ray tracing program for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. It can produce landscape scenes either as a single view, left or right eye views for stereographic viewing, or combined red-blue anaglyphs. It can also produce scenes from the NASA Viking Orbiter digital maps. It is freeware. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. COMMERCIAL DEVELOPERS ------------------------- This section contains the software developed at organisations which are relatively low priced and descriptions/demonstrations are available on the net. i) http://www.aescon.com/rockware/index.htm Rockware Inc. is a retailer of software for the geosciences. They have placed their catalog description on the web, at: http://www.aescon.com/rockware/products.htm ii) http://gil.ipswichcity.qld.gov.au/comm/pest/index.html Watermark Computing's web page has a description of its PEST software suite for model-independent non-linear parameter estimation. There are also links to MODFLOW utilities. iii) http://www.et.byu.edu/~geos/software/wms/wms.html Jim Nelson has been developing Basin Delineation software since 1990. It runs under Unix or Windows. There is a free demo version. -- http://www.et.byu.edu/~geos/software/#software Other software from the ECGL site includes WMS (Water Shed Modeling System), FastTAB (hydrodynamic modeling system), FastSEEP (automatic seepage modeling) and Surface-Water Modeling iv) http://www.silverplatter.com/catalog/erldb.html Silverplatter Products on the Internet. Silverplatter market a number of databases on CD-ROM. One of these, Geo-REF, is of interest to geoscientists. You can download trial versions of their products or get a guest account. See American Geological Institute in part 1 for GeoRef Newsletter. v) http://www.nr.no/home/SAND/ Statistical Analysis of Natural Resource Data (SAND) specialises in software for geostatistical analysis for reservoir evaluation and delineation. Software includes CONTSIM, HAVANAH, SEQUENCE and HORIZON. Has links to other sites in geostatistics, statistics and stochostic models. vi) http://www.stratmap.com Strategic Mapping Inc. (SMI) develops and markets the Atlas range of GIS products for Dos and Windows. A demo version of the Windows package can be downloaded. Info on the AGIS-L Internet Atlas GIS user group. Also links other GIS resources. vii) http://triton.cms.udel.edu/~oliver/gislist.html The GIS Software Listing of Commercial Developers by Oliver Weatherbee. Does contain some shareware locations. viii) http://www.mathworks.com/ MatLab is Visualisation Software from Mathworks. The site includes news, notes, faq, technical questions and user contributed M/MEX files. The software apparently is used quite alot by oceanography researchers. ix) http://www.igis.com IntelliGIS Inc. is a provider of GIS products for the petroleum industry. Software is Unix and Windows based. x) http://www.kovcomp.co.uk/ Kovach Computing provide low cost Dos and Windows statistical software. Shareware versions exist. Products include Oriana (for circular analysis, rose diagrams and the like) and MVSP (multi-variate statistics). xi) http://www.dlsr.com.au/ Digital Land Systems Research develop the SAGE GIS system, which includes Sage GIS, Capture, Cartographer. Demo software is available. xii) http://www.info-mine.com/products/lynx/ Lynx Geosystems develop and market mine planning software and the Lynx Geoscience Modeling System. It is for Unix and PC's. They also have a low cost geology/mining software for educational institutes. xiii) http://www.petroway.com Petroway Inc has made available demonstration versions of some of their software. Included are Automate for Windows (well test interpretation software) and Winboast (black-oil simulation software). xiv) http://world.std.com/~able Able Software Co. produces tools for GIS and Mappping. R2V is a Windows and NT raster to vector conversion system. Demo software available. xv) http://www.golden.com/golden/ Golden Software, Inc. make Surfer (a great contouring package) for Dos and Windows, Grapher for Dos and Windows plus MapViewer. Demo versions of their software is avalable. xvi) http://web.ixl.net:8000/consolve/ ConSolve Inc. develope advanced software products for scientists, engineers etc. Two main products are SitePlanner and SiteView. Demo copy of SiteView for Windows is available. xvii) http://www.lgc.com Landmark Graphics Corp is a supplier of exploration and production info-systems and services for the Petroleum Industry. They market software for seismic, well log etc. -- http://www.lgc.com/Support/ftpnavigate.html FTP Archives Index page, product support -- http://www.lgc.com/UserNet/indxisue.html UserNet, their technical newsletter, is on-line. xviii) http://www.pangaea.com/ Pangaea Scientific is a software devoloper for the Earth Sciences. Its products, mainly for Dos and Windows, include SpheriStat (orientation analysis), GMM (geological map maker), Quake (earth quake modeling), Parallax 3D (3D modeling), MetPet (metamorphic composition and reaction calculation. xiv) http://ngwww.ucar.edu/ The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have developed and sell a graphics/mapping program for 2D and 3D visualisations called NCAR Graphics. It is for for Unix boxes. For info etc see: -- http://ngww.ucar.edu/info/ng4.0.html for Version 4.0 -- http://ngww.ucar.edu/info/ng3.2.1.html for Version 3.2.1 xv) http://www.tcicorp.com/ TCI Software develops software for AutoCAD map makers. Their products include Polymorph, Curvefit2 and Map Accessories. -- http://www.tcicorp.com/mapsites.html a list of other web sites for autocad mapmakers. xv) http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~russellj/ Geodyssey Ltd develop and market Hipparchus, a GIS toolkit for C and C++ xvi) http://www.geosoft.co.uk Geosoft Ltd. at Leed, UK, produce a suite of toolkits for mapping application development in MS Windows. The products are designed for programmers to write GIS into their applications. xvii) http://www.mathsoft.com/ MathSoft distribute the S-Plus Spatial Statistics software, which is designed to analyse spatially sampled data in fields like the environment, mining, demography. xviii) http://www.wasy.de/home_eng.htm WASY Ltd develop and market (amongst other software) FEFLOW, a finite element subsurface flow system for Sun and Silicon Graphics workstations. xix) http://www.wolfram.com/ Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica (a comprehensive mathematical library), with a dem version. Also a scientific visualisation gallery. xx) http://gttserv/lth/rwth-aachen.de/~sp/tt/ Stephan's Technical Thermochemistry Web Page has links to the ChemSage software collection, including ChemGeo which was developed specifically for geochemists and geophysicists xxi) http://www.ermapper.com ER Mapper is an image processing and mapping package for Windows and Unix xxii) http://web2.airmail.net/paz/PAZhome.html Pierre Zippi has a collection of assorted Macintosh software of interest to those in the Earth Sciences. They are mainly suited for geology, paleontology and general Earth Sciences, eg Counter, Dipmeter, plots, Diversity calculator, Log plots, Range Charts Rose diagrams etc. xxiii) http://www.ace.inter.net/ GridStat is a 3D reservoir characterisation package based on geostatistics. It runs on Windows and Unix platforms and was developed by Texaco Exploration and Production Technology. xxiv) http://www.interlog.com/~dirk/viewlog.html ViewLog Systems develop and market geophysical data processing and groundwater modelling software for Dos and Windows. Products include ViewLog, ViewSeis, ModView (for use with ModFlow) and GridManager. Demo software available. xxv) http://www.appliedglobal.com Applied Global Technologies develop and market the WinCAT GIS software for Windows. - ftp://ftp.appliedglobal.com/applied.global.com/usgsview.exe The freeware version of their WinCats software is able to view the USGS DRG and DOQ (jpeg) imagery files. xxvi) http://www.waterengr.com Water Resouces Consulting Services market hydrology and hydraulics software. They have all the HEC software from the US Army Corps of Engineers, including HEC-RAS. - http://www.waterengr.com/free.htm links to various freeware software such as Dersert, Cepipe, TR-55, SWMM. xxvii) http://www.xmission.com/~idi/qcvt.htm Intermountain Digital Computing have released QUADConvert. This software will take the 28 quadrant images for the LTWG QUAD Lands scene and stitch them together in 7 fast format image arrays, complete with Rev. B header in under 5 minutes. It is vailable for Dos, Windows and several Unix systems. xxviii) http://ourworld.compuservee.com/homepages/JohnDavis/homepage.htm John Davis is an independent consultant specialising in Computer Applications in Mining and Geology, especially in exploration, resource evaluation and geostatistics and customisation and bespoke programming. Some products include GeoBASys (geological borehole analysis software), Vario96 (semi-variogram modelling), GridORE (block/grid ore reserve estimation) PolyORE (polygonal ore resource estimation) ========================================================================= -- Phillip Ingram phone (02) 9850 8401 School of Earth Sciences, fax (02) 9850 8428 Macquarie University, email: pingram@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au N.S.W., 2109, Australia alias: Phil.Ingram@mq.edu.au url: http://atlas.es.mq.edu.au/users/pingram/pingram.html

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