GSC 321—Engineering Geology
Some Useful Web Sites:
Dr. Nourse’s home page (course-related information; maps and photographs pertinent to various sites in San Antonio and San Gabriel Canyons)
http://geology.csupomona.edu/janourse/
Geology Department home page (direct link to UC Davis site that provides free tiff images of topographic maps in California at 1:24,000, 1:100,000, and 1:250,000 scales)
Southern California Aerial Mapping Project (digital geologic maps of various quadrangles in southern California)
California Geological Survey (Geologic maps and geologic hazard zoning maps for various parts of California; information on Earth resources and natural disasters)
Thomas W. Dibblee Foundation (1:24,000 scale colored geologic maps for about half of California)
http://www.sbnature.org/dibblee/newweb/about.html
Richard Allmendinger home page (free software for plotting and contouring planar and linear orientation data on stereonets)
http://www.geo.cornell.edu/geology/faculty/RWA/
Cal Poly Pomona Library Course Reserves (view listing of reserve items that may be helpful supplements for this course)
http://opac.library.csupomona.edu/search/p
Future dam failure in Iraq? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7069109.stm
Dr. Tanya Atwater’s animations of western North America deformation during Cenozoic time
http://www.geol.ucsb.edu/faculty/atwater/
Here are some earthquake hazards web sites that provide information on historical earthquakes, earthquake locations, seismicity, fault hazards zoning maps, ground shaking, and earthquake simulations :
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/neic/
http://www.earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/1906/simulations/
http://www.consrv.ca.gov/CGS/geologic_hazards/earthquakes/index.htm
http://www.consrv.ca.gov/CGS/rghm/ap/index.htm
http://www.consrv.ca.gov/CGS/smip/index.htm