After the Covid-19 pandemic put a halt to classroom and field teaching the geoscience community made a host of digital resources available online. We want to do our part by collating the most valuable of these to make them more accessible. If you come across anything you think should be included here, please forward it to TSG.
Field Trips & Digital Outcrops
- Virtual Landscapes (Leeds): A resource for virtual fieldtrips for geological mapping – including our 2021 Rhoscolyn Virtual Fieldtrip
- eGEW-GeoTrips: How to create online Google Earth field trips by Josh Williams & Ben van der Pluijm
- Streetcar2Subduction method: How to create Google Earth field trips by Christie Rowe et al.
- Designing Remote Geology Field Courses: A YouTube Webinar by IAGD
- eGEW-GeoTrip: Geology of the Maryland Appalachians
- Streetcar2Subduction: Plate Tectonics in the San Francisco bay Area
- Designing Remote Field Experiences: A collection of available field trips and resources on how to design them by NAGT
- V3Geo: A growing repository and online viewer with 120+ outcrop photogrammetry (3D) models
- Virtual Field Trips by Arizona State University: 25 field trips covering all matters earth sciences
- e-rock: Platform for virtual field trips and outcrop photogrammetry models by Adam Cawood & Clare Bond
- Svalbox: Virtual field trips and outcrop photogrammetry models from Svalbard by UNIS
- Dynamic Digital Maps: Digital maps augmented with photographs, videos, explanations, analytical data,…
Microscopy, Rocks & Minerals
- ViP: A digital microscopy platform with sample datasets allowing full analysis in ppl and xpl by RWTH Aachen University
- Zeiss Axio Scan & Zen lite: Similar platform by Zeiss (requires free registration)
- ImageMatrix: Online microscopy platform with extensive sample collection (also available as download) by Macquarie University
- Virtual Microscope for Earth Sciences: Online microscopy platform with a range of terrestrial and extraterrestrial rocks (incl. Darwin’s collection, Apollo samples, and meteorites)
- Alex Strekeisen: Probably the most extensive library of petrographic micrographs and knowledge
- Sketchfab Catalog: Huge collection of hand specimen 3D models (cite as http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3988525)
Lectures & Other Resources
- Seismic Explorer: Interactive map of earthquakes since 1980, volcanoes, and tectonic plates by The Concord Consortium
- Rift & Rift Margins: Bi-weekly Webinar
- Eqmachine: Earthquake simulator by California State University Northridge
- MAGIC: Collection of outcrop, sample, and map panoramas from around the Atlantic
- Jason Loxton Thread: Twitter thread for digital geology resources
- List of Online Teaching Resources, mostly lectures, for Earth and Environmental Sciences by ESWN
- Google Sheets with online teaching resources for Geoscience
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