Open Educational Resources (OER): Geology

This subset of the MERLOT collection features openly licensed textbooks for use by students and faculty.

The Open Textbook Library is a collection of open textbooks that features reviews written by professors.

The College Open Textbooks Collaborative is focused on driving awareness and adoptions of open textbooks to more than 2000 community and other two-year colleges.

The B.C. Open Textbook Project is funded by the BC Ministry of Advanced Education to provide flexible and affordable access to higher education resources.

Physical Geology is a comprehensive introductory text on the physical aspects of geology, including rocks and minerals, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, glaciation, groundwater, streams, coasts, mass wasting, climate change, planetary geology and much more.

This central Geoscience Bookshelf in this LibreTexts Library holds texts that are curated by the LibreTexts Development team and can be used either directly or as content for building customized remixes.

Evolution of Physical Oceanography was created to describe the evolution of their subject over the history of physical oceanography.

Resources on geology education for students including lesson plans and activities from the United States Geological Survey.

The geographic information available from The National Map includes orthoimagery (aerial photographs), elevation, geographic names, hydrography, boundaries, transportation, structures, and land cover.

The courses — covering topics ranging from mapping to energy policy to oceanography to astronomy to global warming — were developed by the John A. Dutton e-Education Institute, the learning design unit for EMS.

Video lectures spanning topics including, colliding continents, Cambrian Explosion, volcanoes, environmental science, and seismic activity in Greece.

On demand viewing of the USGS current and past lecture videos can be found here.