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Geosciences

  • Dictionary of Earth Sciences
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  • Encyclopedia of Geomorphology
    Call Number: GB400.3.E53 2004
  • Encyclopedia of Sediments & Sedimentary Rocks
    Call Number: QE 471.2 .E53 2003
  • Encyclopedia of Tidepools and Rocky Shores
    Call Number: QH 541.5 .S35 E53 2007
  • Encyclopedia of Volcanoes
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  • Guide to Minerals, Rocks, and Fossils
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  • McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of the Geological Sciences
    Call Number: QE 5 M29
  • Oxford Companion to the Earth
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GeoRef
Access: network restricted
Coverage: varies
Content: GeoRef is is a comprehensive geosciences database containing over 2.8 million bibliographic records to the geoscience literature of the world. Among the subjects covered in GeoRef are: environmental and engineering geology, hydrology, economic geology, geophysics, petrology, paleontology, marine geology and oceanography, and mineralogy.

  • GeoIndex(Search engine for companies, educational resources, government resources, and associations in the geosciences.)
  • Geomorphology from Space(Online NASA publication that provides views of landforms from space.)
  • GeoScienceWorld(Search engine for 7 geological associations. Also includes a thesaurus for search terms.)
  • Global Volcanism Program(Smithsonian Institution's resource for volcano research, featuring volcano maps, photo gallery, activity reports, and more.)
  • Intute: Earth Sciences( Gateway to high-quality earth science Web sites.)
  • Karst Information Portal(KIP provides unified links to karst research in technical reports, publications, dissertations, and more.)
  • Science Accelerator(Federated search engine from the U.S. Dept. of Energy retrieves government reports, white papers, proceedings, and patents. Some full text freely available.)
  • USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program(This site offers the ability to search on bathymetry, mapping, and photographs for world regions. As a bonus, most images come from scientific papers that are available online.)
  • USGS Geology Research(Access to government reports, publications, news, and more on all aspects of geology research throughout the United States.)

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