National Parks

National Park Service -- general information for any NPS unit, Find a Park search.

Edible Plants

ICE Biological Inventory - an inventory or plants and animals by park, unfortunately it only uses the scientific names

Native American Ethnobotany

Plants Poisonous to livestock

Species in Parks - Flora and Fauna Databases

USDA Plants Database

Wilderness Survival - edible and medicinal plants

Specific Parks and Areas

Acadia National Park , Maine : A shoreline carved by glaciers 

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument , Nebraska

Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve, Alaska : Remote and recent volcanic wildlands

Arches National Park : A geologic tour of Arches National Park , Utah

Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Alaska : Extensive lava flows, ash/steam explosion,
crater lakes and continuing glaciations

Big Bend: Texas A&M University Big Bend field trip

Big Bend National Park : Virtual field trip to Big Bend National Park , West Texas

Big Bend National Park : Hike the Lost Mine Trail in Big Bend National Park

Big Bend National Park : Virtual field trip

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument, Colorado: The slow, unyielding process of erosion

Virtual field trip of Brazos Bend State Park

Bryce Canyon : A geologic tour of Bryce Canyon National Park , Utah

Embark on a Virtual Tour of Bryce Canyon
Canyonlands National Park , Utah

Tour of Capitol Reef National Park

Capital Reef: Geological field trip to Capital Reef State Park , Utah

Tour of Champlain Thrust Fault, Vermont

Channel Islands : Another virtual field trip!!

Colorado National Monument and the Uncompahgre Highland

Colossal Cave , Tucson , Arizona  

Crater Lake National Park , Oregon : The deepest lake in the United States ,
the second deepest in the Western Hemisphere

Craters of the Moon National Monument , Idaho : "The strangest 75 square miles on the
North American Continent"

Cumberland Island National Seashore, Georgia: Georgia 's largest and southernmost barrier island

John Day Fossil Beds National Monument , Oregon : Treasures concealed in sedimentary rock

This field trip will take you to just a few of Death Valley 's geological wonders.

Death Valley

Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska : Home of Mount McKinley, highest mountain
on the North American Continent

Dinosaur National Monument : A tour of Dinosaur National Monument, UT and CO.

Dinosaur State Park , Rocky Hill , Connecticut

Virtual fieldtrip to Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, Texas

Everglades National Park , Florida : Glaciers in South Florida ?

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument , Colorado

Fossil Butte National Monument , Wyoming

Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Alaska : The northernmost east-west trending portion
of the Rocky Mountains

Glacier Bay Geology

Grand Canyon National Park : A geologic tour of Grand Canyon National Park

Grand Canyon National Park : The geology of the Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon National Park : The Grand Tour of the Grand Canyon . Backpack to the bottom.

Grand Teton National Park  , Wyoming : Valleys created by glaciations

Great Basin National Park   a geologic tour through the Great Basin National Park, NV

Guadalupe Mountains National Park , Texas : an ancient marine fossil reef

Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument , Idaho : the Pliocene epoch is well represented
in this fossil history

Haleakela National Park , Hawaii : Reminder of a once active volcano

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park , Hawaii : Two of the worlds most active volcanoes

Tour of Hocking Hills State Park, Ohio

Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Indiana: Home of Mount Baldy "the smoking dune"

Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska : One of the world's most active volcano centers

Kenai Fjords National Park , Alaska : Glacier-carved Valleys Filled with Ocean Waters

Tour of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan

Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska : Uplifting, intrusion, earthquakes, volcanism and
glacial action (excellent links)
Lake Mead: Field trip to Lake Mead , the origins of the lake

Lake Mead Geology

Virtual tour of Lassen Volcanic National Park

Lassen's most recent eruption

Mojave National Preserve: A geologic tour through the Mojave National Preserve, CA

Mojave National Preserve, California : Home of the Kelso Dunes

Mohave National Preserve Geology

Observing Monument Valley

Mount Rainier National Park  

Mount St. Helens, Washington

Natural Bridges National Monument: The geology of Natural Bridges National Monument , Utah

Niagara Falls and the Niagara River Gorge, New York

Geology of North Cascades National Park
General link for the North Cascades Highway ( Washington State Route 20) in Washington

Padre Island National Seashore , Texas : Profile of a Barrier Island

Petrified Forest: Visit the Petrified Forest

Pinnacles National Monument , California : The remains of a volcano atop the San Andreas Rift Zone

Tour of Ponca Wilderness Area, Buffalo National River , Arkansas

General link for the Red Rock Canyon State Park, Kern County , CA

Rocky Mountains National Park , Colorado : The grandeur of the Rocky Mountains
is the culmination of many geologic events

Santa Catalina Mountains , Arizona

Seneca Rocks, West Virginia

Shenandoah National Park : Field trip to Old Rag Mountain
Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan : A masterpiece of ice, wind and water

Tour of Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Kansas

Virgin Islands National Park : Coral Reefs and Canopied Islands

White Sands National Monument , New Mexico : 275 Square miles of glistening gypsum sand

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve: Receding, advancing and tidewater glaciers
Waterton Lakes Virtual Field Trip

Yellowstone National Park  

Windows of Our World - Yellowstone

The Geologic Story of Yosemite Valley

Roadside geology of Yosemite National Park

Tour of Yosemite National Park

Yosemite National Park : Places of interest in and around the park

Geology Links

Links for Geology of the National Parks (taken from a course offered at U of  Oregon)

Geology of the National Parks: course taught by Bob Lillie at Oregon State University .  Emphasis on Plate Tectonics.  Much valuable information.

National Park Geology -- a geology site put out by the NPS--check out the "Park Geology Tour".  

National Park Geology Tours of Geologic Features for each park 

General Geology Links

"About Geology".  --a very useful resource.  Includes many state geologic maps and a lot of great information.

Geology 101: a lot of great information about introductory geology. 

Geologylink  -- in conjunction with the textbook Geology, 2e by Chernicoff.  A vast, well-organized clearinghouse of just about everything geological.

Geological Photographs. -- index of photos on this website.

National Park Service/USGS "Park Interpreter" Site  -- a growing site on geology of National Parks with the park interpreter in mind. Very informative with some useful links.

San Andreas fault. --an outstanding source by some noted experts.

Virtual and On-line Geologic Field Trip Guides

Plate Tectonics

USGS site on plate tectonics -- a great deal of clearly presented and illustrated background.

UC Berkeley site  -- includes animations of the past 750 million years. Also summarizes the basic theory.

Volcanism and Cascades Volcanoes

Cascade Volcano Observatory (CVO) -- US Geological Survey site --all sorts of information.

Mt. St. Helens -- a USGS site.  Information about all aspects of Mount St. Helens .

Different types of volcanoes --From the CVO page; good clear descriptions with photos.

Volcanoes --a huge warehouse of information on volcanoes from all over the world.  Sponsored by Dartmouth .

Geologic Contacts

Photographs of contacts and the criteria used to distinguish between them.

Unconformities -- Photographs and description.

Houghton Mifflin GeologyLink- virtual field trip is good; inside geology is also good, but you have to navigate to what you’re looking for

Geology  104, a class web site -- good information on geology and many of the national parks, but the downloads sometimes take a long time or the links are no longer working and you’re sent to the nps website.

Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve, Alaska  -- website for info on the park and the geology.  Website for students’ stratigraphy projects of national parks that include much of the same information required for this project.

Geology of Utah's National Parks -- contains syllabi for a fieldwork project done in the various Utah national parks.  may be difficult to use because of inferred geologic concepts and language.  Also includes quicktime movie clips; nice photos