Journeys to Wilderness Canyons
Resources on the Web

What is a Wilderness Area?:

Wilderness.net:
www.wilderness.net
 
Great Outdoors Recreation - Wilderness Areas:
www.gorp.com/gorp/resource/US_Wilderness_Area/main.htm
 
Bureau of Land Management's wilderness page:
www.blm.gov/nhp/Preservation/wilderness/wild22.html
 
High Country News:
www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.ArchiveByCategory?category=Wilderness

Canyons of the World

Black Canyon:
www.aqd.nps.gov/grd/parks/blca/#geology
 
Kaikoura Canyon in New Zealand:
www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/kaikoura
 
Gorges du Verdon, Provence, France:
www.provenceweb.com/e/groupes/verdon/gorges.htm
 
Grand Teton (Cascade Canyon):
www.aqd.nps.gov/grd/parks/grte/index.htm
 
Copper Canyons (Mexico):
www.mexdesco.com/guias_md/gm960203.htm
 
Bryce Canyon:
www.aqd.nps.gov/grd/parks/brca
 
Nine Mile Canyon:
www.nebo.edu/rees/re04002.htm
 
Glen Canyon:
www.americanparknetwork.com/parkinfo/gp/geology.html
 
Wasatch Canyon:
www.saveourcanyons.org

What is Sound

Web-based lessons located at:
www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/sound/u11l1a.html

Geologic Time

Geologic Time Scale:
www.klbproductions.com/yogi/geo-time.html
 
Geologic Time Scale:
www.extinctions.com/timeline/timeline2g.shtml
 
USGS Geologic Time Scale:
vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/geo_time_scale.html

The Grand Canyon of Mars

Scientific American.
Great site for past and current news on Mars and space sciences:
www.sciam.com
 
Astronomy Magazine.
Great site for information on Mars and astronomy:
www.astronomy.com
 
National Geographic Adventure magazine.
Site for information on extreme adventure:
www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure
 
Valles Marineris:
the Grand Canyon of Mars, the United States Geological Survey Webpage:
wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/Space/Mars/mars.htm
 
Windows to the Universe
is the University of Michigan Space Grant Consortium's website devoted to awareness, education, and research on space related science and technology in Michigan:
www.windows.ucar.edu
 
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
is NASA's lead center for robotic exploration of the solar system and participates in international exploration:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov
 
Mars Exploration Program
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov
 
NASA's 'Space Link'
is "An Aeronautics and Space Resource for Education Since 1988" with access to innumerable topics and aspects of space exploration:
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/index.html
 
NASA's Resources for Educators
http://education.nasa.gov/educators.html

Mars Orbiter Camera

Malin Space Science Systems
are the creators of the Mars Orbiter Camera, which is at present in orbit on the Mars Global Surveyor. This camera is responsible for the new level of clarity of images, which have allowed scientists to see different layers in Valles Marineris' as well as the 'small gullies you could practically jump across.
www.msss.com
 
Space.com
is the definitive site on the WWW dedicated to space and all space related subjects. It focuses on news, information, education and entertainment:
space.com
 
The Explore Mars
website is home to a variety of articles and data tables about the planet Mars. You can use the Mars Data base of Named Features to access basic information on over 1400 named features on Mars:
www.astrodigital.org/mars
 
Exploring Mars:
cass.jsc.nasa.gov/expmars/expmars.html
 
Mars Today:
humbabe.arc.nasa.gov
 
Windows to the Universe:
www.windows.ucar.edu

Archeology Digs Shoe Box Archeology

Archnet:
archnet.uconn.edu
 
DIRT:
www.mysterydate.com/amber/Dirt

Exploring Petra: A Web Tour

Martha Joukowsky - Brown University Department of Anthropology and Old World Archaeology and Art - Great Temple Excavations:
www.brown.edu/Departments/Anthropology/Petra
 
The Pool Complex of Petra
- Leigh Ann Bedal, University of Pennsylvania:
http://www.homestead.com/petragarden/poolcomplex.html
 
Cultural Site Research and Management.
Relevant projects involving Petra and Beidha:
www.culturalsite.org/nav1.html
 
Satellite image of Petra region:
www.jpl.nasa.gov/radar/sircxsar/petra2.html
 
Medieval Petra:
www.unifi.it/project/petra/petra/english/frame01.html

Petra National Trust:

Siq Excavations and Restoration:
www.petranationaltrust.com/siq.html
 
Nabataean Hydrology Project:
www.petranationaltrust.com/hydrology.html
 
MIT Students page on Petra:
www.mit.edu:8001/activities/jordanians/jordan/petra.html
 
Petra: Jordan's City in the Rock:
www.nationalgeographic.com/explorer/petra/index.html
 
American Expedition to Petra:
todacosa.com/petra/aep.htm

The Story in a Rock

How to Describe and Classify the Different Kinds of Sedimentary Rocks?
Describing Textures of Sedimentary Rocks:
www.science.ubc.ca/~geol202/sed/sili/textures.html
 
Describing Composition of Sedimentary Rocks:
www.science.ubc.ca/~geol202/sed/sili/comp.html
 
Describing Grain Size:
www.science.ubc.ca/~geol202/sed/sili/gsize.html
 
Describing Colour:
www.science.ubc.ca/~geol202/sed/sili/colour.html
 
Describing Important Clasts:
www.science.ubc.ca/~geol202/sed/sili/impclast.html
 
Classification of Siliciclastic Sedimentary Rocks (simple steps):
www.science.ubc.ca/~geol202/sed/sili/classify.html

Siliciclastics: Grain Shape:

Sedimentary Structures:
www.science.ubc.ca/~geol202/sed/sili/sedstrucint.html and
http://www.science.ubc.ca/~geol202/sed/sili/sedstructures.html
 
Activities about Rocks from NASA; Includes teacher and student pages:
Edible Rocks; Reaping the Rocks; Lava Layering; Lunar Prospector Simulation:
lunar.arc.nasa.gov/education/spaceday/activity.html

Earth's Crust

Layers of the Earth:
volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/plate_tectonics/part1.html
 
The structure of the Earth:
citt.marin.cc.ca.us/ring/rearth.html

Puzzles of the Earth ?

Earth's Structure:
library.advanced.org/17701/high/structure/index.html

Mineral Identification

Basic Information on Minerals and Mineral Identification
Identify Minerals:
www.netspace.net.au/~mwoolley/mineral1.htm
 
Rocks and minerals slide show:
volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lessons/Slideshow/Slideindex.html

Identify A Mineral

The mineral gallery:
www.galleries.com
 
Minerals by name:
mineral.galleries.com/minerals/by_name.htm
 
Mineral Properties:
web.wt.net/~daba/Mineral/determin.html
 
Alphabetical Listing of Mineral Species:
web.wt.net/~daba/Mineral/Alphabetical_Listing.html

Animals and Plants of the Black Canyon

Use one of the following search engines to locate information on the animals and plants of the four life zones below:
www.yahoo.com
www.northernlight.com
www.dogpile.com

Salmon - Coming Home

The Salmon Page:
www.riverdale.k12.or.us/salmon.htm
 
Salmon - Common Questions:
www.wh.whoi.edu/faq/fishfaq2d.html

Wildlife Management: The Case of the Prairie Dog

National Parks Service:
www.nps.gov
 
National Wildlife Federation:
www.nwf.org
 
Worldwide Fund for Nature:
www.panda.org
 
Wildlife Preservation Trust International:
www.wpti.org
 
Conservation International:
www.conservation.org
 
Wildlife Conservation Society:
www.wcs.org

Weather and Climate

Rain Gauge (Precipitation Amounts):
Rain Gauge:
www.miamisci.org/hurricane/rainmeasure.html
 
Make Your Own Rain Gauge: sln.fi.edu/weather/todo/r-gauge.html

Wind Sock or Weather Vane (Wind Direction):
Wind Sock or Weather Vane: www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/Experiment11.htm
 
Making a Weather Vane:
www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/Experiment12.htm
 
Make Your Own Weather Vane:
sln.fi.edu/weather/todo/vane.html

Why do we Have Dams?

Web site: Crackling Dams:
simscience.org/cracks/intermediate/dams2.html
 
Colorado Dams:
dataweb.usbr.gov/html/codams.html
 
Three Gorges Dam - China - Soon to be the largest in the world:
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/july-dec97/gorges_10-8.html
 
National Inventory of Dams:
crunch.tec.army.mil/nid/webpages/nid.cfm
 
The Dam Site:
homepages.tig.com.au/~richardw
 
National Performance of Dams:
npdp.stanford.edu/dams.html
 
Bureau of Land Reclamation - Colorado:
crwua.mwd.dst.ca.us/bor/crwua_bor.htm
 
Hoover Dam:
www.usbr.gov/cdams/dams/hoover.html
 
Itapu- Largest Power Plant on Earth:
www.solar.coppe.ufrj.br/itaipu.html

Three Gorges in China

Three Gorges Dam:
www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/amu/ucr/student/1996/b.hill/china.htm
 
Report on a Site Visit:
www.irn.org/programs/threeg/sklar.html