External Web sites
- British Geological Survey - Geology and Flooding
- Canadian Centre For Occupational Health And Safety - The Geology of South Africa
- Fact Monster - Science - Geology
- Geology.com - Geology and Earth Science Links to popular topics in Geology and other earth sciences, plus earth sciences journals, and university departments.
- How Stuff Works - Science - Geology
- National Park Service - Geology
- SLACKPACKER.COM - Geology
- University of California, Berkeley: Museum of Paleontology - Web Geological Time Machine
- Windsor Research Centre - Geology
Britannica Web sites
Articles from Britannica encyclopedias for elementary and high school students.
- geology - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11)
Geology is the study of the physical features and history of Earth. Scientists who work in geology are called geologists.
- geology - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
The science of the Earth-geology-is perhaps the most varied of all the natural sciences. It is concerned with the origin of the planet Earth, its history, its shape, the materials forming it, and the processes that are acting and have acted on it (see Earth). Geology is one of several related subjects commonly grouped as the Earth sciences, or geoscience (see Earth Sciences). Geologists are Earth scientists concerned primarily with rocks and materials derived from rocks that make up the outer part of the Earth. To understand these materials, geologists use the knowledge gained in other fields of science such as physics, chemistry, and biology; thus, geological fields-such as geophysics, geochemistry, geochronology, and paleontology-incorporate other sciences, enabling geologists to understand better the working of Earth processes through time.