New Hampshire Geology on the Internet

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Generalized Bedrock Geologic Map of New Hampshire
from the State Geologist's Fact Sheet on Gold in New Hampshire

New Hampshire's State Rock, Mineral and Gemstone

Organizations

Local and Regional

• Mount Washington Observatory
• New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference (NEIGC) 

National

• American Geological Institute (AGI)
• American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• American Institue of Professional Geologists(AIPG)
• Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists (AEG)
  • AEG, New England Chapter
• Mineralogical Society of America (MSA)
• National Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers (National Ground Water Association)
• Geological Society of America (GSA)
• Earth Science Week
• Association of State Geologists
• National Association of State Boards of Geology

College and University Geology or Earth Science Programs

• Dartmouth College Earth Science Department
• Keene State College Geology Department
• University of New Hampshire
  • Earth Science Department
  • Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space
  • New Hampshire Water Resources Research Center

Governmental Agencies

State and Local

• New Hampshire State Government Information
• Board of Licensure for Professional Geologists
• New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
  • The New Hampshire Geological Survey and Office of State Geologist
  • Geologic Publications
    • The new (1997) "Bedrock Geologic Map of New Hampshire," compiled by Lyons, Bothner, Moench and Thompson, is "Geo-1" on the list of Geologic Maps.

      W. A. Bothner & E. L. Boudette have created 1:1,250,000-scale "Simplified" and "Generalized" versions of the Bedrock Geologic Map of New Hampshire, which are available from NHDES as PDF files (requiring the Adobe Acrobat Reader). The graphics of both maps are the same, but the information given in the explanation of the Generalized version furnishes more details about the rock units than the Simplifed version and thus is more appropriate for the advanced user. Color print-outs of these two maps are available from NHDES:

    • Generalized Bedrock Geologic Map of New Hampshire
    • Simplified Bedrock Geologic Map of New Hampshire
  • NH-DES "Fact Sheets" from the State Geologist:
    • WD-CO-1 Gold in New Hampshire
    • WD-CO-3 Radon in New Hampshire
    • WD-CO-4 Earthquakes in New Hampshire
  • NH-DES Water Division Sub-Surface "Fact Sheets"
  • Other Publications
• Office of State Planning New Hampshire Resource Net
• GRANIT GIS
• New Hampshire Office of Emergency Management
  • Earthquakes in New Hampshire (also published in The Granite State Geologist No. 4)

Federal

• NH Congressional Delegation
• United States Geological Survey (USGS)
  • USGS New Hampshire-Vermont District Office
  • Daily Streamflow Conditions for New Hampshire
  • USGS-State Cooperative Mapping Program
  • New Hampshire Minerals Information
  • USGS Fact Sheet for New Hampshire (index)
  • Groundwater Atlas of the United States: New England and New York
• US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • Surf Your WaterShed (New Hampshire)
  • Region 1, New England
• USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
  • NRCS in New Hampshire
• US Army Corps of Engineers
  • New England Division Update Report for New Hampshire
  • Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)
• National Institutes for Water Resources
  • New Hampshire Water Resources Research Center

Other Resources

Museums and Educational Sites

• Christa McAuliffe Planetarium
• Montshire Museum of Science
• Shoals Marine Laboratory
• NH-PTV Knowledge Network - Earth Science

Publications on NH Geology

• Index to The Granite State Geologist, newsletter of the New Hampshire Geological Society
• Rocks & Minerals Magazine, special issue on New Hampshire, Volume 65, Number 4, July/August 1990
• New Bedrock Geologic Map Finally Here!
• Bradford B. Van Diver, 1987, Roadside Geology of Vermont and New Hampshire. Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Company, Inc.
• A Reading List on the Geologic History of the Northern Appalachians

Maps, Images, and Data

• New Hampshire's entry in the Color Landform Atlas of the United States
• New Hampshire displayed by the Xerox PARC Map Viewer
• New Hampshire Resource Net - Planning, GIS and Related Information
• COCORP Seismic Profiles of New England
• USGS Map Dealers in New Hampshire
• USGS Mapping Status - New Hampshire
• Historic USGS Maps of New Hampshire (and the rest of New England, too)
• NH ONLINE Atlas and NH Almanac
• New Hampshire Maps from Omni Resources
• USGS Groundwater Atlas of the United States: New England and New York
• Quantitative Estimates of the Geology of Large Regions and Their Application to Mineral-Resource Assessment: Expanded Data file for New Hampshire

Earthquake Information

• NHOEM White Paper on Earthquakes in New Hampshire (also published in The Granite State Geologist No. 4)
• NH-DES "Fact Sheet" from the State Geologist: WD-CO-4 Earthquakes in New Hampshire
• The New England Seismic Network/Weston Observatory (Boston College)
• The New England Seismic Network/MIT
• National Earthquake Information Center - New Hampshire Seismicity
• Earthquakes in Boston and New England
• Proceedings of the Working Group Meeting on Northeast United States Earthquake Probability, April 28-29, 1993, USGS Open File Report 94-643
• Not earthquake related, but seismic: COCORP Seismic Profiles of New England

Geologically Interesting Places in New Hampshire

• The White Mountains
• AMC Backcountry Hut Geology
• Mount Washington
  • Mount Washington Observatory
  • Mount Washington
  • Mount Washington
  • Tuckerman Ravine, in Thomas Lowell's Glacial Image Database
  • Tuckerman Ravine Web Cam
• Bedrock Geology of the eastern White Mountain Batholith, North Conway area, New Hampshire, by John W. Creasy & John P. Fitzgerald
• Franconia Notch State Park
• Lost River Gorge (Kinsman Notch)
• Waterfalls in the White Mountains
• Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest
  • 1998 Summary of Chris Barton's Fractured Rock Hydrology Research at Mirror Lake
  • Paul Hsieh's Hydrology of Fractured Rocks Project Bibliography
  • National Atmospheric Deposition Program
  • USGS Bedrock Regional Aquifer Systematics Study Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest geologic mapping
• Caves in New Hampshire -- Polar Caves
• Ruggles Mine, Ruggle Mine, or Ruggles Mine!!!
• Gallery of New Hampshire Mineral Collecting (page 1), page 2, the Minerals from the William Wise Mine, Westmoreland, and Steve's NH Specimens
• A Union College Petrology Class atop Mount Monadnock
• New Hampshire Coastal Zone
• Seacoast Science Center at Odiorne Point
• Great Bay Estuary
  • Sandy Point Discovery Center

Other

• Plate T-11 The Appalachian Mountains, from Geomorphology from Space: A Global Overview of Regional Landforms
• Across NH: Science & Environment
• New England Geology, at a glance
• Gemstones mined in New Hampshire, including garnet and minerals of collector or specialty interest.
• An Explanation of Geochronology, citing an example from New Hampshire
• NH Historical Society resources for teachers on Geology
• Virtual Field Trips in the northeast United States

Directories

• New Hampshire Enviro-Source
• EnviroDirectory.com
• New England Environmental Exposition
• Expert Witnesses in Geology for New Hampshire