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Academic Search Complete (Ebsco) is a multidisciplinary index giving access to articles in over 8000 journals with many available in full text.
Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale Cengage Learning) is a general database with indexing for journal, magazine and newspaper articles, with many of the articles available full text.
Google Scholar provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.
Wilson Select Plus (FirstSearch) is a general database that contains full text articles from popular and scholarly journals and magazines.
AAPG/Datapages Combined Publications database contains over 60,000 articles from sources including AAPG Publications, SEPM Journal, GCAGS Transactions, and Journal of Petroleum Geology.
ABI-INFORM (OCLC FirstSearch) provides citations and abstracts for articles on business and management.
American Chemical Society Web Editions (ACS Web Edition and Archive) provides online full-text access to all the ACS journal and magazine publications (presently, about 36), with coverage from volume 1 to current for each.
DIScovering Science provides comprehensive coverage of scientific disciplines including Physical Sciences, Medicine, Technology, Information Sciences and Mathematics.
Geobase (Firstsearch) a worldwide index to literature on geography, geology, ecology, and related disciplines, includes journal articles, books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports.
GeoRef (Ebsco) includes citations to nearly 2 million international records about geology and earth sciences.
Science & Technology Collection (Ebsco) provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,700 publications of which over 800 leading full text journals cover relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. Topics include astrophysics, biology, chemistry, computer technology, geology, physics, archaeology, and materials science.
SciFinder is an access point to several Chemical Abstracts databases providing chemical literature from over 10,000 journals, 1907-present; organic and inorganic substance information (CAS registry); patents; structure diagrams; and more. New users start here.
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NetLibrary is a collection of electronic books (eBooks) especially selected to meet the needs of the university curriculum.
Online Books: Geology
Google Scholar provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.
DICTIONARIES
Geology Link Page - General site for geology
Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Abbreviations and acronyms of terms used in Geographic Information Systems, Cartography and Remote Sensing.
EARTHQUAKES
Earthquake Hazards Program
Worldwide information on earthquakes.
FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOKS
Geologic Guidebooks of North America Database
This is the electronic version of the print edition of this publication. It is searchable by geologic feature, formation or other subject term. It also provides lists of libraries that own the relevant guidebooks found.
MAPS
National Geologic Map Database
A catalog of paper and digital geologic maps and where to find them, including paleontological, geophysical, structural, environmental, hazard, and resource maps. It also provides links to other sites for topographic maps. It also provides a Geologic Name file that gives basic descriptions of geologic rock units.
TopoZone - Topographic map site
This site has all the topographic maps for the U.S. contiguous states in the scales 1:100,000; 1:25,000; and 1:24,000. Topographics for Alaska (1:63,360) and Puerto Rico (1:20,000) will be added soon. The images of the maps themselves are retrieved after searching by place name and state or latitude/longitude.
MINERALS
Mineral Gallery
A searchable and browseable collection of mineral descriptions and images. Searchable by name, group or full-text keyword; this is a commercial site that sells minerals, but it provides substantial and useful technical descriptions.
Mineralogy Database
An exhaustive mineral database providing descriptions of more than 4000 mineral species with more than 5000 pages of data and links to other sources of mineral data on the web.
USGS Minerals Information
Statistics and information on world supply, demand and flow of minerals and materials essential to the U.S. economy.
TIME CHART
Geologic Time Chart
Produced by the University of California at Berkley Museum of Paleontology, this site will allow you to explore Geologic Time.
VOLCANOES
Volcano World
An extensive site providing historical descriptions, maps and photographs.
Volcanoes of the World
The USGS volcano site.
MISCELLANEOUS
Martindale's "The Reference Desk". Calculators On-line Center (Geosciences)
Calculators for various Dating methods, Plate tectonic reconstruction, Geothermics, Gravity, Seismology, etc.
Resources of Scholarly Societies - Earth Sciences
A directory of scholarly societies in the earth sciences, each society site providing links to its own resources and links to other recommended related sites.
T.I.D.E.S.
(Teaching, Images, and Digital Experiences) Offers primary resource material from East Texas Libraries and museums.
Texas Hill Country Geology Field Trip (10 images).
