Earth Time
Exploring the Deep Past from Victorian England to the Grand Canyon
by Douglas Palmer

The dramatic history of planet Earth and the rocky road to understanding the past
* A probing account of the history of the earth and an introduction to the many eccentric characters that have attempted to understand its origins.
* Full of fascinating anecdotes about 19th century explorers and natural philosophers who first carved up Earth's history just as others were carving up the globe.
* Unravels the fascinating history of rock strata and the implications they have had on accepted theories on the Earth's life.
* Considers the future of the earth, and what a repeat of some of the catastrophic events of the earth's past, such as major earthquakes and asteroid collisions, could mean for life today.

Earth's Core v1.0
Earth's Core provides a wealth of information for those people interested in Rocks, Gems and Minerals. it contains detailed information on hundreds of gems and minerals as well as a detail glossary of terms.
Designed to be used on desktops set to 1024x768 or better, it requires 70MB of disk space.
Features include:
Information on 600 minerals
Information on 300 gems
Information on 200 rocks
900 glossary items
2100 pictures
Fully searchable content.
As well as all of that, it also contains most of the features of the Periodic Table software:
Detailed information on each element
Details of isotopes and allotropes
Details of important compounds
Details of reactions with water, air, halogens and acids
Images for each element (126 images in total)
Biographies for the important scientists and element discoverers
Search through all of the element, biography, isotope and glossary pages.

Screenshots: http://freshney.org/education/ec/screenshots.htm