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Original PDF converted and link-corrected, May 2026.
Correction Legend
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University Directories
European Geology Departments – Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
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All European Countries Geology Department Directory
Original: uni-mainz.de/FB/Geo/Geologie/GeoInst/Europa.html — old faculty path retired. Current Institute of Geosciences site: geosciences.uni-mainz.de
USA and Canada Geology Departments – University of South Dakota
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Complete List, V.J. Ansell, University of South Dakota
Research Organisations – Australia
AMIRA Global (formerly AMIRA International)
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Australian Mineral Industries Research Association — now AMIRA Global
Original: amira.com.au — that domain now hosts unrelated content. AMIRA rebranded as AMIRA Global; current URL: amira.global
Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET) – UWA
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University of Western Australia, Australia
Original: cet.uwa.edu.au — now integrated into UWA’s School of Earth and Marine Sciences
CODES – Centre for Ore Deposit and Earth Sciences, University of Tasmania
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Centre for Ore Deposit Research, University of Tasmania, Australia
Original: fcms.its.utas.edu.au/scieng/codes/index.asp — old UTAS FCMS path retired. Current URL: utas.edu.au/codes
? Dead COSSA – CSIRO Office of Space Science (cossa.csiro.au)
Original: cossa.csiro.au/index.htm — no longer active. CSIRO’s Office of Space Science and Applications (COSSA) was restructured.
Suggested replacement: CSIRO Remote Sensing Research
CSIRO Minerals
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CSIRO Mineral Resources, Australia
Original: csiro.au/org/Minerals.html — restructured to csiro.au/en/research/natural-environment/minerals
GEMOC – Geochemical Evolution and the Metallogeny of Continents, Macquarie University
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Macquarie University, Australia
Original: es.mq.edu.au/gemoc/ — old Earth Sciences subdomain retired. Now at mq.edu.au
? Dead National Centre for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics (ncpgg.adelaide.edu.au)
Original: ncpgg.adelaide.edu.au/ncpgg.html — no longer active. NCPGG at University of Adelaide was restructured into the Australian School of Petroleum (ASP) and then into the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials.
Suggested replacement: University of Adelaide – Energy and Earth Sciences
Research Organisations – By Country
Austria / Belgium
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
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Brussels, Belgium
Original: kbinirsnb.be — now naturalsciences.be
Université de Liège – Geology and Sedimentology
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Belgium
Original: ulg.ac.be/geolsed/index.htm — University of Liège domain changed from ulg.ac.be to uliege.be
Brazil
Instituto de Geociências – Universidade de BrasÃlia
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University of Brazil (UnB)
Original: unb.br/ig/geologia.htm — now ig.unb.br
Canada
? Dead Consortium for Specialized Seismic Techniques (UBC geop.ubc.ca/CDSST)
Original: geop.ubc.ca/CDSST/ — no longer active.
Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical Research (PCIGR) – UBC
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Isotopic and Geochemical Research Lab, University of British Columbia
Original: geology.ubc.ca/research/pcigr/PCIGR.htm — restructured to eoas.ubc.ca
? Dead Geophysical Inversion Laboratory (geop.ubc.ca/ubcgif)
Original: geop.ubc.ca/ubcgif/ — no longer active.
Lithoprobe – Crustal Mapping Project, UBC
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Crustal Mapping Project, University of British Columbia, Canada
NORCAT – Northern Centre for Advanced Technology
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Sudbury, Ontario — Underground Mining Research, Canada
Royal Tyrrell Museum
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Famous Museum of Paleontology Near Calgary, Canada
Note: original spelled “Tyrell” — correct spelling is “Tyrrell”
China
? Dead Chinese Academy of Science (english.cas.ac.cn/eng2003/page/RH_03.asp)
Original: english.cas.ac.cn/eng2003/page/RH_03.asp — old page path retired.
Current CAS English site: english.cas.cn
Czech Republic
? Error Geophysical Institute (Czech Republic)
Original linked to cgs.gov.cn (China Geological Survey — wrong country, copy-paste error).
Denmark
? Dead Danish Polar Center (dpc.dk)
Original: dpc.dk — no longer active. The Danish Polar Center was merged into the Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education.
Suggested replacement: GEUS – Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Geology Museum – Natural History Museum of Denmark (Copenhagen)
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Polar Research Center, Denmark
Original: nathimus.ku.dk/geomus/ — now snm.ku.dk (Natural History Museum of Denmark)
France
BRGM – Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières
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France Geoscientific Research Organisation
École des Mines de Paris (MINES ParisTech)
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Earth and Environmental Science, France
Original: ensmp.fr — now minesparis.psl.eu
École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne (EMSE)
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France
Original had a malformed URL (brgm.fr/https://www.emse.fr/ — prepended with brgm.fr erroneously). Correct URL: emse.fr
Germany
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
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Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
Original: awi-bremerhaven.de — now awi.de/en/
BGR – Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe
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Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Germany
GFZ – Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (German Research Centre for Geosciences)
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Potsdam, Germany — Research into Global Geoscientific Issues
Original: gfz-potsdam.de/welcome_en.html (stale path) — root gfz-potsdam.de is current
ICDP – International Continental Scientific Drilling Program
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International Continental Scientific Drilling Project, Germany
? Dead Institute of Geology and Dynamics of the Lithosphere (IGDL), Göttingen (gwdg.de/~ugdl)
Original: gwdg.de/~ugdl — no longer active. GWDG personal pages retired.
Suggested replacement: University of Göttingen – Geosciences
Institute of Geology and Palaeontology – University of Stuttgart (IGPS)
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Germany
Original: geologie.uni-stuttgart.de — redirects to university main site. Current: uni-stuttgart.de/en/study/fields-of-study/geo-sciences/
Institute of Mineralogy – University of Würzburg
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University of Würzburg, Germany
Original: uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/index.html — now mineralogy.uni-wuerzburg.de
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (formerly Coal Research)
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Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Original: mpi-muelheim.mpg.de/mpikofo_home.html — the institute renamed from “Coal Research” to “Chemical Energy Conversion”. Root URL still mpi-muelheim.mpg.de
Hungary
? Dead Geodetic and Geophysical Research Institute (ggki.hu)
Original: ggki.hu — no longer active. GGKI was reorganised into CSFK (Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences).
Suggested replacement: CSFK – Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungary
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)
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Hungary
Original: mta.hu — English version now at mta.hu/english
Iceland
Nordic Volcanological Center (NordVulk)
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Iceland
Original: norvol.hi.is — the Nordic Volcanological Institute (NORDVULK) is now hosted at the Icelandic Met Office (vedur.is)
India
India Bureau of Mines (IBM)
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India
Original: ibm.nic.in — government India portals migrated from nic.in to gov.in. Current: ibm.gov.in
Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology
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Research and Scientific Organisation, India
Original: himgeology.com — now wihg.res.in
Italy
? Dead Italian Research Institutes Directory (simp.dst.unipi.it)
Original: simp.dst.unipi.it/Dipart.htm — no longer active.
Suggested replacement: INGV or Geological Society of Italy
? Dead Istituto di Scienze della Terra – Univ. of Messina (ww2.unime.it)
Original: ww2.unime.it/scienze-terra/ — no longer active.
Suggested replacement: Università di Messina – Scienze
? Dead Museo di Storia Naturale / Università di Firenze (uni.it/uni/msn)
Original: uni.it/uni/msn/ — no longer active. The uni.it aggregation site is gone.
Suggested replacement: Museo di Storia Naturale – Università di Firenze
Japan
? Dead Earth Simulator (es.jamstec.go.jp/esc/eng)
Original: es.jamstec.go.jp/esc/eng/Projects/h15_list.html — no longer active. The Earth Simulator project pages have been archived.
Suggested replacement: JAMSTEC – Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
? Dead NIRE – National Institute for Resources and Environment (nire.go.jp)
Original: nire.go.jp/index-e.htm — no longer active. NIRE was merged into AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) in 2001.
Suggested replacement: AIST – National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
? Dead Ocean Research Institute (triton.ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Original: triton.ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp — no longer active. ORI merged into the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute (AORI).
Suggested replacement: AORI – Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo
Korea
Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM)
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Research into Exploration, Mining and Utilization Technology, Korea
Netherlands
ITC – Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (University of Twente)
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Netherlands
New Zealand
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences – Victoria University of Wellington
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Antarctic and Earth Science Research, New Zealand
Original: geo.vuw.ac.nz — now wgtn.ac.nz/sgees (Victoria University of Wellington rebranded)
Norway
Poland
Pa?stwowy Instytut Geologiczny (PGI-PIB) – Polish Geological Institute
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Poland
Original: pgi.waw.pl — now pgi.gov.pl
Russia / Belarus
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
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Official website, Belarus
Original: ac.by — now nasb.gov.by/en/
Saudi Arabia
Slovenia
Geological Survey of Slovenia (GeoZS)
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Institute for Geology, Geotechnics and Geophysics, Slovenia
South Africa
CSIR – Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa
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Mining and Minerals Industry Research, South Africa
United Kingdom
Birkbeck / UCL – Earth Sciences
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University College London
Original: es.ucl.ac.uk/research.htm — now ucl.ac.uk/earth-sciences
Camborne School of Mines – University of Exeter
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UK
Original: ex.ac.uk/CSM/ — CSM merged with University of Exeter. Now part of Exeter’s Department of Earth Sciences
? Dead Centre for Environmental Magnetism and Palaeomagnetism (geography.lancs.ac.uk/cemp)
Original: geography.lancs.ac.uk/cemp/cemp.htm — no longer active.
Suggested replacement: Lancaster University – Environment Centre
University of Cambridge – Department of Earth Sciences
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UK
Original: rock.esc.cam.ac.uk — now esc.cam.ac.uk
? Dead Centre for Earth and Environmental Research – Kingston University (kingston.ac.uk/geolsci)
Original: kingston.ac.uk/geolsci/ — no longer active. Kingston University restructured its geography/geology programmes.
Suggested replacement: Kingston University – Science, Engineering and Computing
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) / UKRI
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Supports Research into Earth Science and Technology, UK
Original: nerc.ac.uk — now part of UKRI at ukri.org/councils/nerc/
? Dead Royal Holloway (gl.rhbnc.ac.uk)
Original: gl.rhbnc.ac.uk — no longer active. Old RHBNC domain retired.
Suggested replacement: Royal Holloway – Department of Earth Sciences
National Oceanography Centre (NOC) – formerly Southampton Oceanography Centre
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UK
Original: soc.soton.ac.uk — Southampton Oceanography Centre merged with other institutions to form NOC at noc.ac.uk
USA
? Dead Ames Lab Fossil (external.ameslab.gov/fossil)
Original: external.ameslab.gov/fossil/index.html — no longer active.
Suggested replacement: Ames National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Earth and Environmental Sciences Research, California
Original: llnl.gov/llnl/04science/research.html — stale path. Root llnl.gov is current
Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering – University of Nevada, Reno
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University of Nevada, USA
Original: unr.edu/Mackay/ — now unr.edu/mackay
Meteorites From Antarctica – NASA JSC
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A Research Program for Collecting and Distributing Antarctic Meteorites
Original: www-curator.jsc.nasa.gov/curator/antmet/antmet.htm — now curator.jsc.nasa.gov/antmet/
NASA Earth – formerly Mission to Planet Earth
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Earth Systems Research, USA
Original: earth.nasa.gov — now nasa.gov/earth/
NOAA – Marine Geology and Geophysics Data (formerly NGDC)
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Marine Geology and Geophysics Data Center, USA
Original: ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/mggd.html — NGDC merged into NCEI (National Centers for Environmental Information)
IODP – International Ocean Discovery Program (formerly ODP)
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Research into the History of the Ocean Basin and the Crust Beneath the Ocean Floor
Original: www-odp.tamu.edu — Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) ended in 2003; succeeded by IODP at iodp.org
Scripps Institution of Oceanography – UC San Diego
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University of California, San Diego, USA
Original: sio.ucsd.edu — now scripps.ucsd.edu
Smithsonian Institution – Research
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USA
Original: smithsonian.org/research/ — now si.edu/research
? Dead South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (hpcnet.org/sdsmt)
Original: hpcnet.org/sdsmt — no longer active. hpcnet.org was an ISP/network provider link.
Correct direct URL: South Dakota Mines (sdsmt.edu)
Advanced Light Source – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Berkeley Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Original: www-als.lbl.gov — now als.lbl.gov
USGS Geology
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USGS, USA
Original: geology.usgs.gov/index.shtml — restructured to usgs.gov/science/science-explorer/geology
Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory – UT Austin (Texas Memorial Museum)
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University of Texas, USA
Original: tmm.utexas.edu/vpl/ — Texas Memorial Museum (TMM) now at txm.utexas.edu
International
International Lithosphere Program (ILP)
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Seeks to elucidate the nature, dynamics, origin and evolution of the lithosphere
Summary of All Corrections
| # | Entry | Original URL / Problem | Correction |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | European Geology Departments (Mainz) | uni-mainz.de/FB/Geo/Geologie/GeoInst/Europa.html (old path) | geosciences.uni-mainz.de |
| 2 | AMIRA | amira.com.au (domain hijacked by unrelated content) | amira.global |
| 3 | Centre for Exploration Targeting (UWA) | cet.uwa.edu.au | uwa.edu.au/schools/earth-and-marine-sciences/cet |
| 4 | CODES (Tasmania) | fcms.its.utas.edu.au/scieng/codes/index.asp (old FCMS path) | utas.edu.au/codes |
| 5 | COSSA (CSIRO) | cossa.csiro.au — restructured/retired | csiro.au/en/research/natural-environment/land/remote-sensing |
| 6 | CSIRO Minerals | csiro.au/org/Minerals.html (old path) | csiro.au/en/research/natural-environment/minerals |
| 7 | GEMOC (Macquarie) | es.mq.edu.au/gemoc/ (old ES subdomain) | mq.edu.au/research/…/gemoc |
| 8 | NCPGG (Adelaide) | ncpgg.adelaide.edu.au — restructured/defunct | adelaide.edu.au/energy-and-earth-sciences/ |
| 9 | Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences | kbinirsnb.be | naturalsciences.be |
| 10 | Université de Liège | ulg.ac.be/geolsed/index.htm | uliege.be/geolsed |
| 11 | Instituto de Geociências (Brazil) | unb.br/ig/geologia.htm | ig.unb.br |
| 12 | Consortium Seismic Techniques (UBC) | geop.ubc.ca/CDSST/ — dead | eoas.ubc.ca suggested |
| 13 | PCIGR (UBC) | geology.ubc.ca/research/pcigr/PCIGR.htm | eoas.ubc.ca/research/facilities/pcigr |
| 14 | Geophysical Inversion Lab (UBC) | geop.ubc.ca/ubcgif/ — dead | gif.eos.ubc.ca |
| 15 | Chinese Academy of Science | english.cas.ac.cn/eng2003/page/RH_03.asp (old path) | english.cas.cn |
| 16 | Czech Geophysical Institute | cgs.gov.cn (China Geological Survey — wrong country!) | ig.cas.cz/en/ (Czech Academy of Sciences) |
| 17 | Danish Polar Center | dpc.dk — merged into other agencies | geus.dk suggested |
| 18 | Geology Museum Copenhagen | nathimus.ku.dk/geomus/ | snm.ku.dk (Natural History Museum of Denmark) |
| 19 | École des Mines de Paris | ensmp.fr | minesparis.psl.eu |
| 20 | EMSE (Saint-Étienne) | brgm.fr/https://www.emse.fr/ (malformed prepended URL) | emse.fr |
| 21 | Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) | awi-bremerhaven.de | awi.de/en/ |
| 22 | GFZ Potsdam | gfz-potsdam.de/welcome_en.html (stale path) | gfz-potsdam.de |
| 23 | IGDL Göttingen | gwdg.de/~ugdl — GWDG personal pages retired | uni-goettingen.de/en/35264.html suggested |
| 24 | Institute of Geology – Stuttgart | geologie.uni-stuttgart.de (redirects away) | uni-stuttgart.de/en/study/…/geo-sciences/ |
| 25 | Institute of Mineralogy – Würzburg | uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/index.html | mineralogy.uni-wuerzburg.de |
| 26 | Max Planck Institute (Coal Research) | mpi-muelheim.mpg.de/mpikofo_home.html (stale path) | mpi-muelheim.mpg.de (renamed to Chemical Energy Conversion) |
| 27 | GGKI Hungary | ggki.hu — reorganised into CSFK | csfk.org/en/ |
| 28 | Hungarian Academy of Sciences | mta.hu (Hungarian only) | mta.hu/english |
| 29 | Nordic Volcanological Institute | norvol.hi.is | en.vedur.is/…/nordic-volcanological-center/ |
| 30 | India Bureau of Mines | ibm.nic.in | ibm.gov.in |
| 31 | Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology | himgeology.com | wihg.res.in |
| 32 | Italian Research Institutes Directory (Pisa) | simp.dst.unipi.it/Dipart.htm — dead | ingv.it suggested |
| 33 | Istituto di Scienze della Terra (Messina) | ww2.unime.it/scienze-terra/ — dead | unime.it/mift suggested |
| 34 | Museo Storia Naturale / Uni Firenze | uni.it/uni/msn/ — dead aggregation site | msn.unifi.it |
| 35 | Earth Simulator (JAMSTEC) | es.jamstec.go.jp/esc/eng/ — archived | jamstec.go.jp/en/ suggested |
| 36 | NIRE Japan | nire.go.jp — merged into AIST 2001 | aist.go.jp/index_en.html |
| 37 | Ocean Research Institute (Tokyo) | triton.ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp — merged into AORI | aori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/ |
| 38 | Victoria Univ. Wellington – Geo | geo.vuw.ac.nz (old domain) | wgtn.ac.nz/sgees |
| 39 | Polish Geological Institute | pgi.waw.pl | pgi.gov.pl |
| 40 | National Academy of Sciences of Belarus | ac.by | nasb.gov.by/en/ |
| 41 | Birkbeck/UCL Earth Sciences | es.ucl.ac.uk/research.htm | ucl.ac.uk/earth-sciences |
| 42 | Camborne School of Mines | ex.ac.uk/CSM/ (merged into Exeter) | exeter.ac.uk/departments/earthsciences/ |
| 43 | CEMP Lancaster | geography.lancs.ac.uk/cemp/ — dead | lancaster.ac.uk/lec/ suggested |
| 44 | University of Cambridge Earth Sciences | rock.esc.cam.ac.uk | esc.cam.ac.uk |
| 45 | Kingston University geolsci | kingston.ac.uk/geolsci/ — dead | kingston.ac.uk/faculties/science-engineering/ suggested |
| 46 | NERC (UK) | nerc.ac.uk | ukri.org/councils/nerc/ |
| 47 | Royal Holloway | gl.rhbnc.ac.uk — old RHBNC domain dead | royalholloway.ac.uk/research…/earth-sciences/ |
| 48 | Southampton Oceanography Centre | soc.soton.ac.uk | noc.ac.uk (National Oceanography Centre) |
| 49 | Ames Lab Fossil page | external.ameslab.gov/fossil/ — dead | ameslab.gov suggested |
| 50 | Lawrence Livermore (stale path) | llnl.gov/llnl/04science/research.html | llnl.gov |
| 51 | Mackay School of Mines (Nevada) | unr.edu/Mackay/ | unr.edu/mackay |
| 52 | Meteorites From Antarctica (NASA JSC) | www-curator.jsc.nasa.gov/curator/antmet/antmet.htm | curator.jsc.nasa.gov/antmet/ |
| 53 | NASA Mission to Planet Earth | earth.nasa.gov | nasa.gov/earth/ |
| 54 | NOAA Marine Geology (NGDC) | ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/mggd.html (NGDC ? NCEI) | ncei.noaa.gov/products/marine-geology |
| 55 | Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) | www-odp.tamu.edu — ODP ended 2003 | iodp.org (IODP successor) |
| 56 | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | sio.ucsd.edu | scripps.ucsd.edu |
| 57 | Smithsonian Research | smithsonian.org/research/ | si.edu/research |
| 58 | South Dakota Mines (hpcnet.org) | hpcnet.org/sdsmt — wrong domain (ISP aggregator) | sdsmt.edu |
| 59 | Advanced Light Source (Berkeley) | www-als.lbl.gov | als.lbl.gov |
| 60 | USGS Geology | geology.usgs.gov/index.shtml (restructured) | usgs.gov/science/science-explorer/geology |
| 61 | Vertebrate Paleontology Lab (UT Austin) | tmm.utexas.edu/vpl/ (TMM rebranded) | txm.utexas.edu/vpl |
Link-corrected edition prepared May 2026. Original content © Geologynet / Rob Kanen.
61 corrections identified — including 1 wrong-country error (Czech Geophysical Institute linked to China Geological Survey), 1 malformed URL (EMSE with brgm.fr prepended), 1 domain hijacked by unrelated content (amira.com.au), multiple dissolved/merged institutions (NIRE?AIST, ODP?IODP, SOC?NOC, GGKI?CSFK, Danish Polar Center), and numerous outdated paths across university restructurings.