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SELECTED WEB SITES ABOUT IMPACT CRATERS

 Terrestrial Impact Craters site—Calvin J. Hamilton
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/tercrate.htm

 Educator’s Guide to Impact Craters
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/edu/craters.htm

 Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards
http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/index.html

 Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/SIC/impact_cratering/intro/

 Terrestrial Impact Craters, 2nd ed. by Christian Koeberl and Virgil L. Sharpton
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/slidesets/craters/

 Hawai’i Space Grant College Teacher Page
http://www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu/class_acts/CratersTe.html

http://www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu/class_acts/CrateringDoc.html

 Impact Cratering on a Rainy Day
http://www.teacherlink.usu.edu/tlnasa/units/PlanetaryGeology/9.pdf

 Explore Craters
http://www.kidscosmos.org/kid-stuff/craters.html

 “Crater Crazy” by Andrea Gianopoulos
http://www.astronomy.com/content/static/parentsteachers/activities/cratercrazy.asp

Asteroid impact craters could cradle life (NewScientist.com, 10 Sep 2004)
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6383
 

 SELECTED WEB SITES ABOUT TSUNAMIS
US Geological Survey Southeast Asia FAQ http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/neic_slav_faq.html

USGS Tsunami Information Links
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/bytopic/tsunami.html  
Unearthing Proof of a Tsunami in the Northwest

 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4629401

University of Washington “Tsunami!
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/intro.html

 USGS Coastal & Marine Geology Program
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/tsunami/

 FEMA Hazards—Tsunamis
http://www.fema.gov/hazards/tsunamis/

NWS Tsunami Awareness Page
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/okx/tsunami.html

 

 SELECTED WEB SITES ABOUT NEW ZEALAND AND PACIFIC TSUNAMIS

 DID A BOLIDE IMPACT CAUSE CATASTROPHIC TSUNAMIS IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND? 
ABBOTT, Dallas H.1, MATZEN, Andrew1, BRYANT, Edward A.2, and PEKAR, Stephen F.1
(1) Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, PO Box 1000, Palisades, NY 10964-8000, dallas@ldeo.columbia.edu, (2) Faculty of Science, Univ of Wollongong, Wollongong, 2522, Australia
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2003AM/finalprogram/abstract_65239.htm

 New Zealand Hazard Watch
http://www.gns.cri.nz/hazardwatch/latest/index.html

 Tsunami Sites in New Zealand
http://www.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/newzealand/

 Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/abouttsunamis.htm

 

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