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- UGS, State Energy Program: Managed by the Utah Geological Survey, the Utah State Energy Program supports partnerships that promote and improve energy efficiency and turn renewable energy resources including WIND, SOLAR, GEOTHERMAL, BIOMASS, & HYDROELECTRIC into viable alternatives to fossil fuels. http://geology.utah.gov/sep/

- Geology: Current Events, Maps, Articles, Careers, Satellite Images: http://geology.com/

- Utah Rockhounding: The online source for Utah mineral and fossil collecting! http://www.xmission.com/~jbdaniel/index.htm

- AAPG-Rocky Mountain Section Link, http://www.rms-aapg.org

- GOOGLE MAPS, http://maps.google.com/

- GOOGLE EARTH, http://earth.google.com

- NASA World Wind, http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

- Utah Geological Survey, The Rockhounder Rock & Mineral Collecting Sites, http://geology.utah.gov/utahgeo/rockmineral/rockhounder.htm

- Utah Geological Survey, GEOSITES, http://geology.utah.gov/surveynotes/geosights/index.htm

- UTAH CORE RESEARCH CENTER, The facility currently holds cuttings from more than 3,500 drill holes; core samples from more than 700 drill holes. http://geology.utah.gov/emp/corecenter/index.htm.

-PTTC Rockies Core Locator, FREE Access to 143,766 Cores from Collections Across 30 States. http://pttcrockies.org

-Utah Geology.Com, "making utah's geology more accessible", authored by Lance Weaver, UGS. A cornucopia of SW Utah and Colorado Plateau geologic information.  http://www.utahgeology.com 

- USGS GNIS Geographic Names Information System, data (including name, longitude/latitude, map quadrangle) of geographic features, e.g., populated places, campgrounds, summits, lakes, etc.  in US territories & states http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form 

- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names of the World: coordinates of WORLD features! http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/

- Department of Natural Resources Library card catalogue, most of the UGS publications are downloadable,  http://dnrlibrary.utah.gov 

GIS MAPS

- AGRC, Utah GIS Portal, all things Utah GIS! http://agrc.utah.gov/

- UGS, GIS geologic map data files are produced from published or open-filed geologic maps, and include geologic units, contacts, map symbols, and other map information. http://geology.utah.gov/maps/gis/index.htm

- EARTH EXPLORER, a source of USGS aerial photography, satellite images, and cartographic products! http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/EarthExplorer/ 

- National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP) 2003, 2004, & 2006 images are available from Automated Geographic Reference Center (AGRC), a state agency. The 2006 natural color images cover the entire state of Utah in 1m resolution! Download 2006 county mosaics from ftp://ftp.agrc.state.ut.us/NAIP/NAIP2006 . Information about NAIP http://agrc.utah.gov/agrc_sgid/naip.html

- MapIt, an interactive Utah State site that produces Utah highway maps of desired locations and scales. Great for field trips or meeting locations. http://mapit.utah.gov

 - Atlas from Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center.  An Internet Map Server chock-full of Utah theme maps including a Geology Map Service of Coal, Minerals, and Geothermal resources. http://atlas.utah.gov

 - Maps also from Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center is also a site of Utah theme maps including interactive sites such as Coal, Minerals, and Geothermal resources as well as GIS data that can be downloaded. http://maps.utah.gov

- USGS topographic maps online. http://topozone.com/

- USGS Digital Raster Graphics (DRG's) are now only a click away on the Microsoft TerraServer at http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ . The USGS and Microsoft have combined their expertise and resources to provide the general public with on-line access to maps as well as aerial views of the earth. The DRG's provide full, seamlessly displayed, topographic coverage of the conterminous United States and Hawaii from 1:24,000/1,25,000, 1:100,000, and 1:250,000-scale maps. Terraserver visitors can download the image tiles at no charge.

- The National Atlas of the United States, http://www.nationalatlas.gov/  

- The National Geologic Database of the United States,  http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/

- Utah DRG's (digital raster format file of a scanned NAD27 USGS 7.5 minute , 30'x60', 1°x2° topographic quadrangles) free from http://www.waterrights.utah.gov/quads/default.asp all color/black & white Utah quadrangles have been scanned, some of the quadrangles have their "collars" (edges of the map that contains coordinates, and other data) removed so they can be matrixed together. The files are in TIF format. The world file containing the geographic coordinates of the quad is also available. NAD27 DOQ's (digital 7.5 minute orthoquadrangles) are also available.

- Utah GIS data from the Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center (AGRC), http://www.agrc.its.state.ut.us/ many Utah maps, NAD83 DRGs, county maps, DOQ's (digital 7.5 minute orthoquadrangles) are available. There are links to other GIS sources as well.

- DRG's of Wyoming http://wgiac.state.wy.us

- Nevada Bureau of Mines & Geology Internet Map Server with different ARC-INFO coverages. There also is an Interactive Index of Geologic Mapping in Nevada. http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/  

- Maps of the World http://www.mapquest.com/

- Distance between cities http://www.indo.com/distance/

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GOVERNMENT/SOCIETIES

-  AAPG www.aapg.org

 -AAPG-Rocky Mountain Section Link, http://www.rms-aapg.org

- AEG, Association of Engineering Geologists www.aegweb.org

- GSA, Geological Society of America www.geosociety.org

-AGI American Geological Institute http://www.agiweb.org

- AGI GEOCALENDAR! http://www.agiweb.org/calendar/index.html

- AGI National Geoscience Data Repository System, State Data http://www.agiweb.org/ngdrs/states/

- Western State Geological Surveys & Societies Links

- The Division of Occupational & Professional Licensing (DOPL) http://www.dopl.utah.gov/licensing/geology.html

- Libweb, world libraries including USA Academic libraries http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb/

 - Salt Lake County Library homepage, links to all libraries in Utah plus 1100 libraries outside the state. http://www.slco.lib.ut.us/

- Western States Geological Surveys & Societies

- Four Corners Geological Society (FCGS) http://www.fourcornersgeologicalsociety.org/

 - Paleontological Publication links from the University of California Museum of Paleontology,  Berkeley, http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/subway/paleo/paleopub.html

- Northwest Geological Society, Seattle, WA: http://www.scn.org/tech/nwgs (Excellent Site!)

- Petroleum Technology Transfer Council website http://www.mines.edu/research/PTTC/ . 

- Global History, Geologic Time, Evolution, Tree of Life, Animated Plate Tectonics, WOW! http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/

- ROCKY MOUNTAIN GEOLOGY: http://pubs.gg.uwyo.edu/RMG.htm

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REMOTE SENSING

-"Remote Sensing for Environmental Site Screening and Watershed Evaluation in Utah Mine Lands—East Tintic Mountains, Oquirrh Mountains, and Tushar Mountains" by Barnaby W. Rockwell, Robert R. McDougal, and Carol A. Gent: USGS SIR 2004-5241. Prepared in cooperation with the United States Environmental Protection Agency http://speclab.cr.usgs.gov/earth.studies/Utah-1/sir5241txto_bredit.html

-"Satellite Imaging Corporation (http://www.spaceimages.com/) is a global provider of Geospatial and high-resolution satellite image data from Satellite Sensors like IKONOS, QuickBird, LANDSAT, Spot-5, Aster and other sensors. We also provide Geographic Information Systems (GIS) services, and mapping solutions."

- National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP) 2003, 2004, & 2006 images are available from Automated Geographic Reference Center (AGRC), a state agency. The 2006 natural color images cover the entire state of Utah in 1m resolution! Download 2006 county mosaics from ftp://ftp.agrc.state.ut.us/NAIP/NAIP2006 . Information about NAIP http://agrc.utah.gov/

-EARTH EXPLORER: Query and order satellite images, aerial photographs, and cartographic products through the U.S. Geological Survey.  View satellite images before ordering to insure you are getting what you want. http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/EarthExplorer/ 

-Free Utah DOQs compliments of Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center, Utah's clearinghouse of GIS data!  Some DOQs are in Color Infrared. http://agrc.utah.gov/

-TerraServer! Online images of the world, http://www.terraserver.com/

- Earth Observatory: http://www.earth.nasa.gov , http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

- European Observatory: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html , http://earth.esa.int/images/

- LANDINFO: http://www.landinfo.com/

- Google Earth: Images of the World! http://earth.google.com/Google Earth - Home

- NASA World Wind: Images of the World! http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

- SEAMLESS EARTH: Seamless DEM, relief images of the earth by USGS. http://seamless.usgs.gov/

- RADARSAT: http://www.rsi.ca 

- Space Imaging: www.spaceimaging.com/

- SPOT: http://www.spotimage.fr/

- USGS EROS Data Center, http://edc.usgs.gov/

- GLOBAL CHANGE MASTER DIRECTORY, A comprehensive directory about Earth science and global change data from federal and state agencies, research laboratories, universities, and international agencies. A clearinghouse of Earth Science databases ranging from Agriculture to Solid Earth collected in aircraft, balloons, space stations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe: http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/

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EARTH SCIENCE

- Utah Geological Survey links site authored by Christine Wilkerson. The site has links to all state Geological Surveys, federal sites, professional society sites, virtual field trips, geological disciplines. http://geology.utah.gov/sites.htm  

- Mineral Database, "This mineral database contains more than 5,000 pages of mineral data. Data includes stereo diagrams of crystal faces, that are animated to show all sides; and, pronunciation of mineral names (your computer must have speakers). There are 3,968 individual mineral species data descriptions with links." http://webmineral.com/

- MINERAL DATABASE, Mindat, the largest mineral database and mineralogical reference website on the internet. This site contains worldwide data on minerals, mineral localities and other mineralogical information. http://www.mindat.org/

- Greater Great Salt Lake Ecoregion, Virtual Tour & Learning Module. http://resweb.llu.edu/rford/docs/VGD/GSLVT/index.html

-Utah Geology.Com, "making utah's geology more accessible", authored by Lance Weaver, UGS. A cornucopia of SW Utah and Colorado Plateau geologic information.  http://www.utahgeology.com 

-Geology Current Events, Maps, Articles, Careers, Satellite Images: http://geology.com/

CORE LIBRARIES

-PTTC Rockies Core Locator, FREE Access to 143,766 Cores from Collections Across 30 States. http://pttcrockies.org

--UTAH CORE RESEARCH CENTER, The facility currently holds cuttings from more than 3,500 drill holes; core samples from more than 700 drill holes. Open for Individual, Company, or Group Use. Samples may be examined on-site or borrowed for a period of up to six months.  http://geology.utah.gov/emp/corecenter/index.htm

Utah Core Research Center 240 North Redwood Road P.O. Box 146100 Salt Lake City, UT 84114-6100 801.537.3359, Fax 801.537.3400 email: michaellaine@utah.gov

UTAH ROCKHOUNDING & GEOLOGY SITES

-Utah Geological Survey, The Rockhounder Rock & Mineral Collecting Sites, http://geology.utah.gov/utahgeo/rockmineral/rockhounder.htm

-Utah Geological Survey, GEOSITES, http://geology.utah.gov/surveynotes/geosights/index.htm

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