Sea Floor Structures and Evolution

Christopher Small provides some examples of how satellite observations have revealed hitherto-unknown details of the sea floors on his "REMOTE SENSING" web site within the LDEO "RESEARCH" web pages: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/programs/index.html   (This site provides links to many related Internet URLs.)

Satellite Projects

• Word format
• HTML format

Satellite Orbit Observation (real data):

http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/RealTime/JTrack/3D/AppletFrame.html

DEEP-SEA SEDIMENTS AND CORES

Here is the web site for LDEO's Deep-Sea Core Repository, where you can get more information about some of the concepts presented by the Curator, Rusty Lotti Bond, in workshop 3: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/CORE_REPOSITORY/RHP1.html

LDEO's "Borehole Research Group" coordinates much of the Ocean Drilling Project and other research involving coring deep below the surface: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/BRG/

The NOAA National Data Centers provides links to many other sources of marine geological samples: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/curator/curator.html

Curriculum Ideas:

SAMPLE QUESTIONS by Dr. Michael J. Passow

Workshop participant's WebQuests using Filamentality (work in progress)

Technology Integration:

Creating a WebQuest Using Filamentality:
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/webcreatingcr.html 

Filamentality
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/