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Geosciences
- Dictionary of Earth Sciences
Begin Searching - 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
Begin Searching - Guide to Minerals, Rocks, and Fossils
Begin Searching - McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of the Geological Sciences
Call Number: QE 5 M29 - Oxford Companion to the Earth
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GeoRef
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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.)

