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Some absolutely lovely photos of one of my favorties places anywhere …. UTAH.

The American Southwest – Photographs of Utah

This place is a geological wonderland..

This link was put forward by one of the students in EOSC 311 – and is relevant to Module 5: Knowledge Network – Knowledge Tools.

In the lower left of the screen is a link to “Landslides” – a very well done module for BC residents.

Geological Survey of Canada – Landslides.

Good comprehensive site that allows one to research landlsides in Canada:

• Landslides in the News
• Interactive Landslide Information
• Landslide Reseachers
• About Landslides
• About the Canada Landslide Project
• Landslide Research outside the GSC
• Canadian Lansdslide Database

Just ran across this resource link, Predicting Volcanic Eruptions . The module is media rich, and flash based.

The intended audence is somewhat younger than the university age students that I teach, but I believe the principles and concepts are good ones – and sometimes, its not a bad idea to have things simply explained.

As described:

This presentation uses data from several eruptive episodes of Mount St. Helens in the 1980’s to show the way in which a series of eruptions were accurately predicted by USGS scientists as far as 3 weeks before eruptive activity occurred. Several modules demonstrate the use of earthquakes and deformation of a volcano for predicting eruptions and allow you to predict an actual eruption of Mount St. Helens using data collected by scientists of the USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory. Choose the screen size to fit your computer.