The Volcanoes education resource comprises; - 60 page booklet including causes of volcanic eruptions, volcano types, where volcanoes are found and why, Australia's hot spot volcanoes and the hazards and benefits of volcanoes - 3 reproducible student activities This booklet covers a wide range of issues concerning volcanoes. Activities cover the science of eruptions and their impact on people & students can form a team to monitor a hazardous volcano! Suitable for primary level Years 5-6 and secondary level Years 7-10

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This CD-ROM consists of 15 images and explanatory text detailing the nature of dinosaur fossils from Southern Australia as determined by scientists working along Australia's southeast coast. Find out about the dinosaurs that lived at polar latitudes between 120 to 110 million years ago and the fascinating methods they developed to cope with the climate of that region. The images include actual fossils discovered and reconstructions of dinosaurs and the plants and animals with which these dinosaurs were associated. Suitable for primary Years 5-6 an secondary Years 7-12.

Part- page item on matters related to the Australian Stratigraphy Commission and the Australian Stratigraphic Units Database. This column discusses the usefulness and vulnerability of type sections and reference sections.

This report describes the ornamental stones used in the ground floor foyer of the Geoscience Australia building. There are three ornamental stones used. The flooring tiles are basalt. The 'fault' line through this is a polished norite and the blade walls are covered by a Persian red Travertine. Investigations have established that the basalt and norite are from Australian quarries and the travertine is from an unknown source overseas possibly Italy.

The comprehensive Landslides Kit contains the following education products; - Landslides student activities booklet of 11 reproducible activities and suggested answers (catalogue item 23853) - Australian Landslide slide set - (item 25330) - Landslide A4 paper 3D model - class set of 30 (item 33165) - Slump A4 paper 3D model - class set of 30 (item 33186) Suitable for primary Years 5-6 and Secondary Years 7-10.

Codes, guidelines, and standard practices for naming and describing Australian stratigraphic units have been discussed for more than 60 years since the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) set up a Research Committee on Stratigraphic Nomenclature in 1946. Like today's Australian Stratigraphy Commission, its aims were 'to encourage the orderly use of names and definitions for stratigraphic units'. .......

This entails publishing a formal analysis which, under the International Codes of Zoological and Botanical Nomenclature, must be accompanied by illustrations of specimens. These illustrated specimens can then become the 'ype specimens'. The type specimen acts as a reference upon which the understanding of each species relies. So, if any subsequent research worker wants to compare their material with, or to assign their material to a known species, the concept of that species is dependent on the type specimens and the research worker must refer to those type specimens.

This slide set on Australian volcanoes comprises - 12 page booklet with background information and descriptions of each image - 15 slides - student question/s for each slide Learn the history of Australia's hot spot volcanoes over 60 million years. Compare and contrast recent Australian volcanoes with those elsewhere and examine 9 Australian volcanoes in detail. Suitable for primary levels Years 5-6 and secondary levels Years 7-10

Advances in computer technology have provided the opportunity to present geoscience information in new and innovative ways. The use of web-based three-dimensional interactive models, animations and fly-throughs significantly enhances our ability to communicate complex geometries and concepts not only to the geoscientific community but also, just as importantly, to the general public. Projects within Geoscience Australia currently use a range of GIS, remote sensing, and modelling packages for visualisation of fundamental and derived data. In the main each of these packages also has the ability to produce, as an output, some form of model or animation sequence displaying the results of the visualisation. In most cases however, these outputs are generally not of sufficient quality or do not provide adequate functionality without further processing or editing. Geoscience Australia has adopted a multi-disciplinary approach to 3D visualisation encompassing cartography, GIS, remote sensing, graphic design, programming, web, and video editing to the post-processing of these visualisations. This paper examines the benefits of using models and movies for the visualisation of geoscience and briefly discusses the current workflows and presentation techniques used by the Geo-Visualisation team within Geoscience Australia.