• Introduction
  • Paleontology, Geology, Fossil Sites
    • Geological Formations
    • Mapping
    • PaleoMaps
    • Fossil Identification
    • Fossil Site Information
    • State Geological Maps
    • Geology-General info

Introduction

Links to other sites:

Paleontology, Geology, Fossil Sites

Geological Formations

• Geological Formations in the US -- GEOLEX
• Geological Formations in Canada -- WEBLEX
• Info (not entirely reliable) on North American Rock Formations -- Macrostrat
• US State Geological Map Info http://tin.er.usgs.gov/geology/state/
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists bookstore (for purchase of AAPG Geological Highway Maps
• Database of Geleogical maps --
• Austin area (Texas) Formations --

Mapping

• The Alberta Township System (with links to online coordinate conversions /The original version of this at www.ags.gov.ab.ca/gis has been disappeared. Hopefully the Wikipedia version is a faithful copy/)
• US-Canada Topological Maps
• Math for Conversions between Lat Lon and UTM

PaleoMaps

• Maps of past continental motion

Fossil Identification

• Global Names Index (for organisms) -- GNI
• North American Index Fossils (Full Text) - Grabau
• University of Kansas Paleobotany Database https://web.archive.org/web/20160402085157/http://paleobotany.bio.ku.edu/PaleoCollections.htm (Note: This site seems to have moved without leaving a forwarding address. The data might be accessible from https://biodiversity.ku.edu/paleobotany/collections)
• University pf Kansas Paleo Links
• The Paleobiology Database
• Scirus Scientific Information Search Engine
• Ordovician fossils Cincinnati area
• [ https://web.archive.org/web/20071031121552/http://geology.19thcenturyscience.org/books/1896-Dana-ManGeol/]

By Taxa

• Brachiopods-University of Texas collection
• Brachiopods-Ordovician-images
• Brachiopods paleoportal
• Brachiopods paleos
• Brachiopods-Ordovician,Devonian,Pennsylvanian-images
• Brachiopods-Devonian, identification guide
• Cephalopods-Triassic
• Scoleodonts-Ordovician
• Trilobites -
• Trilobites-Systematics -
• Trilobites-mid-Ordovician
• Trilobites-Eurypterids-Lower Paleozoic
• General Index - Professor Pauls Guides
• General - Brachiopods,Arthropods,etc

Fossil Site Information

• Fossils in America: their nature, origin, identification and classification ... By Jay Ellis Ransom -- Google Books --
• Texas, Connecticut, New jersey: Bruce Cornet; Virtual Tours, etc West Texas, New Jersey Cretaceous, Connecticut Valley Triassic http://www.sunstar-solutions.com/geology.htm
• California, Nevada: Inyo: Virtual visits to many classic California-Nevada fossil localities. http://inyo.coffeecup.com/site/dv/dvfossils.htm
• Louisiana: Virtual field trips. https://web.archive.org/web/20100703071759/http://www.lgsweb.org/fieldtrip98.html Another site that seems to have disappeared and is not available in the Internet archive.
• Mississippi: Links to documents and sites re Lower Mississipi river valley -- Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri www.iceagerocks.com/explore.html (Couldn't resolve URL Sep 2010 Not available in Internet archive) Unfortunately, this interesting site seems to have vanished. I believe that it may have been created by Alan Parks of Memphis, TN, but have not been able to determine if the material from the site is present elsewhere on the Internet.
• Missouri: With particular attention to the St Louis area. http://www.lakeneosho.org/
• New Jersey: Information on two sites -- Big Brook and Shark River http://www.njfossils.net There are links to a number of other New Jersey web sites at the bottom of the Big Brook page
• New York: Information on many Ordovician-Silurian-Devonian locations in New York http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~kwilson/home.htm
• Ohio (SE Indiana, Northern Kentucky) Many resources for fossils in the Cincinnati Area http://www.drydredgers.org/
• Texas http://fossilsoftexas.webs.com/
• List of public parks that explicitly permit/encourage fossil collecting

State Geological Maps

• [ California Index to State Geologic Maps. Map sheets are very detailed and are viewable On-line https://web.archive.org/web/20150304113716/http://www.consrv.ca.gov:80/cgs/rghm/rgm/250k_index/Pages/250k_index.aspx ]
• New York https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20170105215159/http://www.eserc.stonybrook.edu/cen514/fall2002/NYSGeologicMap.html

Geology-General info

• List of resources
• Jack Mount's information on Southwest sites (via internet archive)

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