Geology Subject Guide LRC@TCC

Scope: Sources for researching topics in geology.
Call number areas to browse: QE1-QE996
Subjects to search (Library of Congress): Earth sciences, Environmental geology, Geology, Historical geology, Minerals, Physical geology, Plate tectonics, Rocks

Books in our catalog: 
Gale Virtual Reference Library (r)
Oxford Reference Online Premium (r)
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Geology and Mineralogy (REF QE5.M3654)
Reading the Rocks: the Autobiography of the Earth (QE31.B524)
Encyclopedia of Prehistory (QE26.3.L36)
Encyclopedia of Geology (QE5.E516)

Library Resources (r): 

AGRICOLA offers selective worldwide coverage of over three million citations to material acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions.

Annual Reviews (full-text) provide state-of-the-art reports by experts on the current scholarship in many fields, and are an invaluable support to faculty, graduate, and undergraduate inquiry.

ASFA: Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts is the premier aquatic reference covering over 5,000 serial publications, books, reports, and other literature dealing with the science, technology and management of marine, freshwater and brackish water environments.

BioOne (full-text) brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-text of high-impact bioscience research journals.

Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management offers a multi-disciplinary database of key areas of environmental science, including toxic hazards of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and other substances; air, marine, and freshwater pollution.

GEOBASE provides comprehensive bibliographic references to important journals in the fields of physical and human geography, geology, mineralogy, ecology and development studies. It is the only database in these fields to include abstracts.

Oceanic Abstracts is a leading source of information on topics relating to the oceans, fisheries, aqua culture, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics.

OmniFile Full Text Select from H.W. Wilson indexes, abstracts, and provides full text for over 900 periodicals

Science in Context contains thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations.

Water Resources Abstracts is produced by the U.S. Geological Survey to provide summaries of the world's technical literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources.

Internet Resources:
American Geological Institute includes news, a data repository, a career information center, a book center, the GeoRef system, a publications list, and more.

Earth Science World Image Bank has over 6,000 images available to search, making it one of the largest sources of Earth Science imagery available on the web!

The Geological Society of America provides access to elements that are essential to the professional growth of earth scientists at all levels of expertise and from all sectors: academic, government, business, and industry. Access full text articles from the journals Geology, Geological Society of America Bulletin, Geosphere, and more.

Oceanography and Earth Sciences Megasites from the University of California, San Diego

U.S. Geological Survey serves the Nation by providing reliable scientific information to describe and understand the Earth; minimize loss of life and property from natural disasters; manage water, biological, energy, and mineral resources; and enhance and protect our quality of life.