Department of Geosciences - Education and Research Resources

Geosciences Society Journals - A major collaboration among 22 geoscience society and non-profit publishers to bring their journals online is now available at http://www.geoscienceworld.org. For the first time, the full-text of 30 leading geoscience journals is available electronically; linked, fully searchable, and fully integrated with the most current version of AGI's GeoRef. You'll find links between all the GSW journals, plus other journals at HighWire Press (such as Science and the Journal of Petrology), along with GeoRef, ISI, CrossRef, and Medline links.

Kansas Geological Foundation - The Kansas Geological Foundation has Videotapes, DVD's and CD's to loan free of charge (the only cost to you is that of returning them to the library). Click on Videotape Library to see listing of items available.

Kansas Geological Society

Oceans of Kansas - Although Kansas is now high and dry, at one time the state, like most of the Midwest, was under water. Until the land finally rose above sea level during the final years of the time known as the Late Cretaceous, the area was covered by a succession of oceans whose geologic record is preserved in the sedimentary rock that covers the Great Plains. "Oceans of Kansas" tells the story of the five million years when giant sharks, marine reptiles called mosasaurs, pteranodons, and birds with teeth flourished in and around this shallow sea. The abundant and well-preserved remains of these prehistoric animals were the source of great excitement in the scientific community of the day when they were first discovered in the 1860s. Two of the best-known fossil hunters of the time, E. D. Cope and O. C. Marsh, competed vigorously to recover the best specimens. During the past 130 years, thousands have been collected and sent to museums around the world.

National Science Foundation - The The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…" With an annual budget of about $5.5 billion, are the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing.

Paleogeography and Geologic Evolution of North America - Images showing the paleogeography of North America over the last 550 million years of geologic history. The 40 images shown here are selected from a suite of approximately 100 maps that are in time slices mostly 5-10 million years apart. Individual paleogeographic and tectonic elements can be followed and intuitively related from time slice to adjacent time slice. The maps were prepared with the core of North America (Laurentia) fixed. All other tectonic elements are shown moving against or splitting away from Laurentia, thus showing clearly accretionary and rifting events in North America's geologic history. The views were prepared by wrapping a rectangular outline map on a sphere and viewing the globe rotated to 35° N and 100° W. Various stratigraphic, tectonic, and sedimentologic data were added to the map. Topography was "cloned" from digital elevation maps of modern Earth from the USGS, NOAA, and other sources. Colors were adjusted to portray climate and vegetation for the given time and location. The geologic data were gathered from the references listed at the web site.

U.S. Geological Survey

Woods Hole Oceanography Institute