Mountains, Glaciers, and Canyons

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All About Glaciers

Like great rivers of ice, glaciers have sculpted mountains and carved out valleys. They continue to flow and shape the landscape in many places today. This site explores nearly all aspects of glaciers, the facts, the data, the science, and includes an image gallery.

Glacier Iceberg Time Lapse

Glaciers & icebergs fall apart and crash into one another. The heat penetrates their icy surfaces and creates mini creeks, rivers and tunnels. This video brings home why they are called rivers of ice.

YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLBPy6o0jO0

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Whistler Mountain Webcams

Whistler Blackcomb, a ski resort in British Columbia, Canada, has web cams placed around Whistler Mountain. Each image is updated every 15 minutes.

A fun project is to track the seasons with pictures over the course of a school year.

Yosemite HD II

A 200+ mile backpacking experience through Yosemite National Park captured by Colin Delehanty and Sheldon Neill. This project was filmed over the course of 10 months. They spent a combined 45 days in the park capturing the images in this video.

YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwzY1o_hB5Y

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The Great Smoky Mountains

Learn about the mountain range between North Carolina and Tennessee, the Great Smoky Mountains.

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Zion National Park photos

Tanya Milligan provides this collection of Zion National Park pictures. The site features Zion's flash floods, snow storms, lightening storms, bright sunny days, the dark bowls of Zion's magnificent slot canyons, backpack trails, hiking trails and climbing expeditions. Follow Tanya on a photo tour of magnificent Zion National Park!

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The Geology of the Grand Canyon

This site look at the theories on how the Grand Canyon was formed and why it looks the way it does.

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Grand Canyon National Park webcam

Provides a real time look at the Grand Canyon, an every changing view.

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Antarctica SeaLab

In 2001, National Geographic sent the Nathaniel B. Palmer from Punta Arenas, Chile, for Antarctic waters, carrying 37 scientists to one of the most remote areas on Earth: the waters surrounding Antarctica, sometimes called the Southern Ocean. There biologists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and other organizations studied the Antarctic ecosystem.

This is a log of their journey.

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USGS Featured Topics

This page tracks topics featured on the U.S. Geological Survey's education web site. The USGS Education home page features current topics and resources broken down by grade level.

Gemstones & Mineral Gallery

Find pictures and information on 100's of gemstones & minerals.

Exploration of these ecologies is especially instructive to students who live in very different environments. The net allows them to travel in ways they cannot accomplish themselves.