Ask a Geologist- USGS
Department
of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME)
Virginia
Division of Mineral Resources (DMR)
Fontaine Research Park, 900 Natural Resources Drive, Suite 500
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Phone: (804) 951-6340
A listing of publications available for purchase from DMMR
Educational
Materials for Geology
Geologic Materials
Mineral Resource
Materials
Association of American State Geologists
(AASG)
State pages -
Earth Science Education
Virginia's Secretary
of
Natural Resources
Becky Norton Dunlop
P.O. Box 1475, Richmond, Virginia 23212
(804) 786-0044 Fax (804) 371-8333
U.S.
Geological
Survey
(USGS) - Home Page
registry of
Earth and Environmental Science Internet resources
(USGS) Water
Resources
of Virginia
Virginia State FactSheet
GeologicInformation
about Virginia
Identification of Acid
Mine
Drainage at Contrary Creek, Louisa County, Virginia
USGS Geographic
Names
Information System (GNIS)
George Washington and Jefferson National Forests
- Forest Location Map
American
Geological Institute(AGI)
American
Institute of
Professional Geologists (AIPG)
Office
of Surface Mining
Federal offices responsible for activities in Virginia and Index of
all Office of
Surface Mining web site information.
MUSEUMS
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
University of Richmond, Richmond VA
23173
Telephone Number: 804-289-8460
Fax Number: 804-287-6467
D.
Ralph
Hostetter Museum of Natural History
Eastern Mennonite University - 1200 Park Road, Harrisonburg, VA
The D. Ralph Hostetter Museum of Natural History, was established in
1968. It is available free to the public on select Sundays. It
houses more than 6,000 items, including anthropology artifacts;
botanical specimens; fossils; marine life; minerals; crystals and gems;
rocks, fluorescent rocks and minerals. It also has mounted heads
of American and African game mammals; East African birds; Virginia
birds, nests and eggs; Virginia and international insects.
Stone Cross Mountain Museum
located just out of Martinsville, Virginia
on highway 58 west, two miles from highway 220 Bypass
Staurolite Crystals of Patrick County, VA
A Natural Wonder!
Virginia
Museum of Natural
History
1001 Douglas Ave., Martinsville VA 24112
How
Nature Works: Rocks
University
of Virginia Branch of the Virginia Museum of Natural History,
Charlottesville, VA.
The Virginia
Tech
Museum of Natural History - Blacksburg
Upcoming Programs
- Research Collections
James
Madison University Mineral Museum - Harrisonburg
Museum Announcement: In December, 2005, the James Madison
University Mineral Museum was moved out of Miller Hall due to major
building renovations.
Walton's
Mountain Museum - Schuyler
Virginia
Museum of Fine
Arts - Richmond
Other
partner museums,
art centers, and arts associations throughout Virginia
Science
Museum of Virginia -
Richmond
The Museum
of Geological Sciences
- Va. Tech
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Derring Hall,
Museum of Geological Sciences
2062 Derring Hall, Virginia Tech
Hours: 8-4 Monday-Friday
Free Admission
UNIVERSITIES
James Madison University
Department of Geology
and Environmental Studies
Virginia
Western Community College
Department of Geological Sciences
Virginia Tech
Department of Geological
Sciences
Environmental Engineering and Sciences Program of the
Civil Engineering Department
Acid
Mine Drainage
The College of William and Mary
Department
of Geology
Virginia
Geology
Virginia
Military Institute
Iron
Manufacturing in the 19th Century Shenandoah Valley
"Geological Cycles of Iron Ores"
Washington and Lee University
Department of
Geology
George Mason
University
Geography
of
Virginia
Radford University
Department
of Geology
Radford
University Geological
Society
Old
Dominion
University Dept.
of Oceanography
University
of Virginia
Dept. of Environmental Sciences
Virginia Institute
of Marine
Science
Other Links
George
Washington National Forest Home Page
University of California at Santa Cruz - The Appalachian Mountains -
Physiographic
Provinces of Virginia
Glossary
: Physical Geography
WWW Servers in the UnidataCommunity
Enabling Campuses to Acquire and Analyze
Atmospheric Data
GeoWeb
Geology
Mineralogy
& Crystallography
Museums
& Exhibits
Mineralogy Club of Antwerp, Belgium
Dana's New Mineralogy...
Errata file at thier site
In November 1997 the 8th edition of Dana's classic 'System of
Mineralogy' appeared under the title 'Dana's New Mineralogy'.