Online teaching and learning resources
SEPM is always looking for ways to provide resources to our
community to enhance their productivity and spread knowledge and
education. In these difficult times,
such resources are especially valuable. Academics and professionals around the world are looking for materials
that they can access online and utilize in their own on-line instruction
efforts. Thankfully, our community has
been providing online teaching and learning materials to us and we are passing
them on to you.
We greatly appreciate everyone’s contributions. We compiled a list of the most useful links
on www.sepmstrata.org, our online education and community website. This
compilation of useful online resources is organic, and we encourage you to
check it out at:
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A more expansive list is available at:
If you know of a useful online education links for
sedimentary geology, please send the link to Mr. Daan Beelen, the SEPM STRATA
Fellow at (dbeelen@mines.edu). The list will be updated periodically, and we hope
it is of great use.
Additional teaching and learning materials can be found here:
Helpful links
Below are links to many helpful websites that cover various topics. If you know of any more essential websites for learning and teaching sedimentology or
stratigraphy, please let us know!
Paleogeography
Deeptimemaps are the World's most premium paleogeographic maps, created by arguably the greatest paleogeographer in Earth History: Ron Blakey.
Christopher Scotese's incredibly helpful not to mention beautiful paleogeographic maps are certainly on par with those from Ron Blakey. They are available on the above website
Paleontology
http://ichnology.ku.edu/
KU Ichnology is a very
interesting and complete website about ichnology and trace fossils. Contains a broad suite of information on this topic.
http://foraminifera.eu/
Foraminiferia dot eu
contains a wealth of information regarding the distribution and
characteristics of a huge variety of foraminiferal species.
Stratigraphy
http://stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-gssps
This is the website from
the organization that makes the official geological timescale. It contains a
wealth of information about stratigraphy and geological
history.
https://timescalefoundation.org/
This website is very
helpful for getting familiar with the different geological epochs.
Seismic data
http://seismicatlas.org/
The Virtual Seismic
Atlas contains lots of open source seismic data, the go-to place to acquire
materials for teaching and learning seismic interpretation.
Bathymetry and
topography
http://www.geomapapp.org/
GeoMapApp can be
downloaded for free on this website, which has an enormous amount of
topographic and bathymetric data from all over the world.
Mineralogy
https://www.mindat.org
Very helpful website on minerals.
http://www.webmineral.com/
Database with a lot of information on various minerals.
Petroleum geology
https://wiki.aapg.org/Main_Page
AAPG Wiki contains helpful information about petroleum geology and
reservoir engineering.
https://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/
Schlumberger oilfied glossary has lots of definitions, mostly from
the angle of oilfield geology, geophysics and engineering.
Petrophysics
Crain's Petrophysical Handbook contains an enormous amount of information, formulas and values of key petrophysical parameters. Very helpful learning petrophysics as well as professional practitioners.