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Davis Family Butterfly Vivarium
Invisible Worlds: Immersive Experience
The Secret World of Elephants
Turtle Odyssey
Worlds Beyond Earth: Space Show
Included Exhibitions
Extinct and Endangered: Insects in Peril
Grounded by Our Roots
Ice Cold: An Exhibition of Hip-Hop Jewelry
Opulent Oceans
What's in a Name?
Learn & Teach
Learn & Teach
Children & Family Programs
Teen Programs
Higher Education
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Evaluation, Research, & Policy
Master of Arts in Teaching
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Climate Week NYC
Viruses, Vaccines, and COVID-19
The Science of COVID-19
OLogy: The Science Website for Kids
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Margaret Mead Festival
Origami at the Museum
Our Research
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Anthropology
Invertebrate Zoology
Paleontology
Physical Sciences
Astrophysics
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Vertebrate Zoology
Herpetology
Ichthyology
Mammalogy
Ornithology
Richard Gilder Graduate School
Hayden Planetarium
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
Institute for Comparative Genomics
Southwestern Research Station
Research Library
Darwin Manuscripts Project
Microscopy and Imaging Facility
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David S. and Ruth L. Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth
Resources for Educators: Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth
Guided Exploration: Climate & Climate Change
Guided Exploration: How Earth Formed
Guided Exploration: Natural Resources
Guided Exploration: Plate Tectonics
Guided Exploration: The Rock Record
Virtual Field Trip to the Hall of Planet Earth
How Has the Earth Evolved?
What We Learn From Meteorites
Ancient Sediments from Greenland
The Earth's Crust
Banded Iron Formation
The Differentiated Earth
A Special Planet
Life Explodes
An Evolving Atmosphere
Why are there ocean basins, continents, and mountains?
Wallace Gilroy Bronze Earth model
Explosive volcanism
Volcanic Bombs
Spindle bomb
Cored bomb
Bread crust bomb
Cannonball bomb
Volcanic gases
The year without a summer
Vesuvius erupts
Granites and plutons
Granite
Granite Pegmatite
The Cascade Range and the Ring of Fire
Lava from Mount Rainier
Medicine Lake volcano
Volcanic bombs
Basalt tablet
Deposits from an explosive eruption
Pumice
Obsidian
Remnants of a buried forest
Non-explosive volcanism
The Hawaiian hot spot
Aa lava
Pahoehoe lava
Spatter Cone
Lava Tree
Kilauea volcano Hawaii
Intrusive rocks
Anorthosite
Harzburgite
Norite
Zoned Labradorite
Volcanoes Under the Sea
Glassy buds
East Pacific Rise pillow basalt
Lava pillars
Deep-ocean pillow basalt
Pillow andesite from a lake
Mid-Atlantic Ridge pillow basalt
Pacific Ocean pillow basalt
East Pacific Rise pillow basalt
Flood basalts
Columns of lava
Earthquakes
Earthquakes where plates collide
The Aleutian subduction zone
The Great Alaskan Earthquake
Why do earthquakes happen?
What is a fault?
Fault in Crystalline rock
Which way does a fault move?
The destructive power of earthquakes
Can we predict earthquakes?
Signals from earthquakes
Detecting earthquakes
Measuring an earthquake's intensity
The San Andreas fault zone
Monitoring earthquakes daily
Drum recorder
Mountain building
How mountains are formed
Santis Peak, Switzerland
Making new rocks from old
Metamorphic rock
Transformed rocks
Barrovian sequence
Ultra-high pressure rock
Gore Mountain garnet
How rocks deform
A fold in a rock
Deforming rocks in the laboratory
Deformed rocks
Deformed conglomerates
Secrets of the Alps
The core of the Alps
Eclogite
Modeling mountain building
Why mountains rise
Formation of the Himalayas
Plate tectonics
Earthquakes and plate tectonics
The Kings Canyon Fold
Earthquakes and the Earth's internal structure
Circulating Heat
How to read the mantle
Mantle xenolith
Diamond in Kimberlite
Iron meteorite
Mantle model
The Old Red Sandstone
Old Red Sandstone
When plates move past each other
Anza-Borrego
Atlantis fracture zone
San Andreas fault
Anatolian Fault, Turkey
Where plates separate
Where plates collide
How Do We Read the Rocks?
Rethinking Earth History
The Present Is the Key to the Past
The Father of Geology
Three Types of Rock
Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Dating Rocks
Trilobite
Brachiopods
Telling time precisely
Fossil fish
Dating rocks with radioactivity
An exact age for an old rock
Dating rocks by trails of destruction
Deciphering the Grand Canyon
Uplift and Erosion
When Did the Canyon Form?
Building the Canyon's Layers
The Sea Retreats, the Sea Returns
Energy and Transport
What Causes Climate and Climate Change
How Climate Works
Our Warming World
Consequences of Warming
Why Study Past Climate?
Deep-sea sediment core
What Ice Cores Record
The Greenland Ice Record
Climate Proxies
Coral Core
Deep-sea Sediment Core Model
Lake Sediment Core Model
Grooved boulder
Tree Cross Section
Tree Core
Coral Skeleton
Wind-carved rock
Why is the Earth habitable?
Earth's resources
Gold in conglomerate
Coal
Salt
What is an ore?
Chromium Ore
Vanadium Ore
Platinum ore
Dwindling resources
Bauxite
Oil shale
Life that lives off the Earth's energy
The Chimney Roane
The Chimney Finn
The Chimney Gwenen
Life at the hydrothermal vents
Microbes around vents
Deep-sea vents and ore deposits
Ancient black smokers
Black smoker
Banded ore
Deep-sea hot springs
How hydrothermal systems work
How sulfide chimneys form
Where do the Earth’s riches come from?
Anatomy of an ore deposit
Peacock ore
Fragmented ore
Ores from molten rock
Layers of chromite
Kidd Creek Mine
Stringer ore
Ores from hot water
Giant quartz vein
Ores in granite
Silver-rich veins
Rare minerals from pegmatites
Tourmaline pegmatite
Earth cycles
Global cycles of life-giving elements
Coal
Coquina
Chalk
Limestone (Fossiliferous)
Tree sample
Marble
The Carbon Cycle
The "missing" carbon
The rock cycle
Granite
Claystone
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The water cycle
Dynamic Earth
Petrified tree
Bread crust bomb
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