About BCcampus Open Education
- Adoption of an Open Textbook: https://open.bccampus.ca/use-open-textbooks/tell-us-youre-using-an-open-textbook/
- BCcampus: https://bccampus.ca/
- BCcampus Open Education: https://open.bccampus.ca/
- British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills & Training: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/organizational-structure/ministries-organizations/ministries/advanced-education-skills-training
- Creative Commons licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
- Hewlett Foundation: http://www.hewlett.org/
Chapter 1
- Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia: https://www.egbc.ca/
- Virtual Roadtrip: https://barabus.tru.ca/geol2051/road_trip/road_trip.html
Chapter 4
- Comprehensive catalogue of the world’s volcanoes: https://volcano.si.edu/
- USGS Overview of Kilauea Volcanoe’s 2018 eruption[PDF]: https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/vsc/file_mngr/file-224/OVERVIEW_Kil2018_LERZ-Summit_June%202019.pdf
Chapter 5
- Soil Classification: Soil Orders of Canada: http://classification.soilweb.ca/
Chapter 6
- International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS): http://www.stratigraphy.org/
Chapter 8
- 1700 Juan de Fuca Earthquake: https://web.viu.ca/earle/1700-quake/
- Day Number of the Year Calculator: http://mistupid.com/calendar/dayofyear.htm
- Foundation for Global Community’s “Walk through Time”: http://www.globalcommunity.org/wtt/walk_menu/
- ICS time scale: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
- William Smith Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smith_%28geologist%29
Chapter 9
- Glatzmaier’s Geodynamo website: http://es.ucsc.edu/~glatz/geodynamo.html
Chapter 10
- Collection of articles on Alfred Wegener: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Wegener/
- Paper Models of Transform Faults: https://web.viu.ca/earle/transform-model/
- Time lapse of continental movements: http://barabus.tru.ca/geol1031/plates.html
Chapter 11
- Moment magnitude calculator: https://urls.bccampus.ca/5w2
- Progress Report: Seismic Mitigation Program (BC Schools): https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/education-training/k-12/administration/capital/seismic-mitigation
Chapter 13
- Alberta’s flood of the century: http://www.ec.gc.ca/meteo-weather/default.asp?lang=En&n=5BA5EAFC-1&offset=2&toc=hide
- Geoscape Vancouver: http://www.cgenarchive.org/vancouver-fraserdelta.html
Chapter 14
- B.C. Ministry of the Environment observation well website: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/air-land-water/water/groundwater-wells-aquifers/groundwater-observation-well-network/groundwater-level-data-interactive-map
Chapter 17
- Wikipedia “wind wave” site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_wave#/media/File:Deep_water_wave.gif
Chapter 21
- Burgess Shale fossil site in 2014: https://www.rom.on.ca/en/blog/mighty-burgess-shale-fossil-site-discovered-in-kootenay-national-park
Appendix 1: List of Geologically Important Elements and the Periodic Table
- Syngenta Period Table of Elements: http://www.syngentaperiodictable.co.uk/periodic-table.php?keyStage=5
