Welcome to Bill Leeman's Explosive Home Page!

• Fondren Electronic Journals
• Fondren On-line Indexes & Databases
• AGU Journals home page
• G-cubed
• American Mineralogist/TOC
• Applied Geochemistry/Solid Earth
• Chemical Geology
• Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
• Earth & Planetary Science Letters
• Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
• J. of Geophysical Research/Solid Earth
• GeoSociety of America - abstracts
• Lithos
• Marine Geology
• Nature
• J. of Petrology
• Science
• Bulletin of Volcanology
• J. of Volcanology & Geothermal Research
• On-line Earth Science journals list

Some other cool sites related to my interests

• NIST Physical Constants - for those fundamental figures
• Web Elements - a good on-line Periodic Table from Univ. of Sheffield
• Chart of the Nuclides - form Brookhaven National Lab
• Rice Geology & Geophysics - locations & descriptions of ongoing research
• Virtual Geosciences Professor - John Butler's extremely useful resources on teaching
• Michigan Tech Volcano Homepage - good source for volcano information
• Volcano World Homepage - more good sources of volcano information
• The Volcanic Homepage - further information on global volcanism
• Int. Assoc. Volcanism & Chemistry of the Earth's Interior - (IAVCEI) - still more interesting volcano facts
• Seismosurfing on the WWW - Steve Malone's shaky links to global earthquakes and seismicity
• Bill White's Geochemistry Links - access to a wealth of elemental information
• Mike Cheatham's Instrumentation Page - links to analytical instrumentation
• Welcome to the Planets - excellent images and descriptions of the Solar System (CalTech-JPL)
• Views of the Solar System - excellent images and descriptions of planetary geology
• TREES - Teaching Resources for Education in Earth Sciences (UCSD)
• Ishmael's Companion - if you want to save the world, check it out!
• Enviro-Web - Rice's environmental web page
• EPSC website - committee archives
• Rice Environmental Intern - information on current activities
• Which World? - scenarios for the 21st century
• Reading References - interesting articles or analyses
• Financial Stuff - useful resources
• Jerry Garcia Memorial Page - keep on truckin'
• Beatles lyrics & album covers - needs no explanation
• On-Line Guitar Archive (OLGA) - song lyrics & chords
• The Edge - commentaries
• Dave's math tables - useful reference info
• Lovett College - where we were Master's between 1994-1999
• Merit badge requirements - Boy Scouts of America
• Familiar quotations - indexed Bartlett's <
• Engines of our ingenuity - John Leinhard

Sites below are under construction but contain interesting pics/info

• HTML and WWW resource links - information about making Web pages
• Xerox PARC map viewer - add maps to your WWW documents
• Plate motion calculator - relative and absolute velocities of tectonic plates
• Volcanoes by state, region, world - volcano locator
• UTIG Plates Project - plate motion reconstructions
• UNAVCO plate motion calculator
• Plate tectonics/Berkeley
• LDEO pate velocity calculator - relative and absolute velocities of tectonic plates
• Geomagnetic anomaly time scale
• Magnetic time scale
• Animated tectonic history/W USA - useful teaching modules
• German Climate Computing Center - climate models
• Houston weather radar
• US weather radar composite
• National weather - U. Michigan
• MELTs home page - stay tuned for more about this site
• Quick start for MELTs

Houston

• Houston skyline as viewed from the west
• Orange show - one of Houston's 'folk art' centerpieces
• Exquisite tourmalines seen at the Houston Museum of Natural Science
• Directory Center - people, businesses, restaurants, etc.
• Rice Info - general Houston information

Plate Tectonics

• Earth's interior - schematic cross section of the Earth
• Major tectonic plates - world map view
• Sea floor age map - world map view
• World topography - global variations in elevation
• Plate boundaries overview - schematic views of major types of plate boundaries
• World seismicity #1 - USGS global distribution of earthquakes
• World seismicity #2 - (USGS/NEIC) 1975-1995 earthquakes within local regions (depth coded)
• Rice Seismology Station - see actual seismic records!
• Virtual Earthquake - become a Virtual Seismologist by locating EQs
• Ring of fire - distribution of volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean basin
• Cascadia subduction zone cross section - schematic view of a convergent margin
• W. North America plate tectonics - map view of tectonic boundaries
• US topography - geoid topography of the U.S.

Global volcanism

• Current & recent activity #1 - clickable global map of hot volcanoes (Volcano World)
• Current & recent activity #2 - clickable table of hot volcanoes (MTU)
• Active volcanoes by region - clickable global map of hot volcanoes (MTU version)
• Foreign volcanoes - clickable list of world volcanoes (Cascades Volcano Observatory)
• Decade volcanoes - clickable list (Cascades Volcano Observatory)
• Deadliest eruptions - body counts from Volcano World
• Other useful volcanology resources:
  • Cascades Volcano Observatory
  • Alaska Volcano Observatory
  • Hawaii Volcano Observatory
  • Center for Volcanic Studies (Univ. of Washington)
  • Volcano Information Center - volcanic products and processes

Miscellaneous images

• Hawaii - map of the 'big island'
• Hawaiian-Emperor Islands - hot spot track on the Pacific Ocean basin
• Hot spot model - schematic illustration of how hot spot volcano tracks form
• Mount St. Helens dome - growing dacite dome within 18 May 1980 eruption crater
• East African rift - map view of region where a new extensional plate boundary is forming
• Valles caldera - SIR-C radar image of N. New Mexico - Note: large caldera in Jemez Mtns., NNW trending fault, and Rio Grande R. (red color = vegetation)
• Valles caldera - diagramatic cross sections showing evolution of a caldera structure
• Aniakchak crater, Alaskan peninsula - part of the Aleutian volcanic arc
• Ash distribution - for major explosive eruptions in the W. US: Yellowstone (1900 ka b.p.), Long Valley (700 ka), Crater Lake (7 ka), and Mt. St. Helens (1980) (ka = 1000 years)