Geophysical and Geologic java applets, movies, animations, articles, tutorials, class notes, etc

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Real-Time Visualization of Quantum Atomic Orbitals

Interesting articles
what is a wave ?
what is noise ?
uncertainty in inverse problems
modes of survival
Migration versus inversion
seismic imaging with noise

Geophysical Java Applets
ORFEUS: java software
SEG Geo-Applet Contest
JARS Java Resource
Changyong's Statistics

German seismic applets
Seismometer Plane Waves Huygens Principle
Ray Paths Central Limit Theorem

UBC seismic/geophysical applets
make reflection data, then migrate it
make refraction data and records sections

Project Java
Calculate seismic profile across 660 from mineral physics
Earth-models and ray-tracing

Digital seismology tour
Ammon's Body-Wave Modeler
Seismometer poles and zeros
Exploring Earth Processes
Isostasy Demonstration

Wave propagation in Earth
shear wave progation in the Earth: ( shockwave)
PREM-PATH (11 mb)
RAYPATH (9 mb)
Tackley's quicktime wave propagation

Earthquake rupture animations
Northridge_rupture.mpg

Mantle Convection Movies
Micheal Gurnis: Caltech
Shijie's Zhong: Univ. Colorado
Paul Tackley: UCLA
David A. Yuen's Group: Impressive

Plume movies
Large Bent plumes: new kind

Plate tectonic movies and Paleogeography
Global plate motions from from PreCambrian on
western US Plate tectonic/geography: precambrian on
western US Paleogeography: Paleozoic Mesozoic Cenozoic
Pacific-north america plate movies
Last 20 ma western US plate movie (10 mb!)