Earth Sciences

Introduction:

The following is a brief, selected guide to geology information resources available in Fogler Library, through the Fogler Library home page, and the World Wide Web.

Indexes and Abstracts | Earth Science Journals Author Instruction Pages | Electronic Journals | Dictionaries, Glossaries, and Encyclopedias | Directories, Handbooks, and Yearbooks |  Associations and Societies | Atlases and Geographic Name Servers |  Virtual Libraries

Earth science picture of the day. USGS

New Resources since 10/26/2009

Water resource reports
New and highlighted full-text USGS reports.

URSUS

URSUS - the online catalogue of the University of Maine System, contains a wealth of information on geology and related topics. Searching is by author, title, keyword, subject, and call number. Through URSUS you can find books, conference, symposium, and workshop proceeding volumes, University of Maine theses and dissertations, and state, federal, Canadian, and other international documents. Material is catalogued by Library of Congress Subject Headings. The following subject headings may get you started in your search:

formations (geology), geochemistry, geological mapping, geological surveys, geology economic, geology maps, geology stratigraphic, geology structural, historical geology, isotope geology, physical geology, sediments geology

A good way to search URSUS is by keyword. Using the keyword search option you can combine various keywords together using AND, OR, and parentheses. If you wanted to find information on soils in Maine or Vermont your search might look like this:

(soil or soils) and (vermont or maine or new england)

Indexes and Abstracts

Bibliography of Maine Geoloy
This bibliography is now included in the Maine Geological Survey Publication Search engine.  Includes Cyrus C. Babb’s Bibliography of Maine Geology, 1913-1972.  Over 4,000 records have been added since the last 1972 edition, bringing the total to over 7,000 records.  Searchable by author, title, where published, date of publication, and keyword.  Includes citations only.  Indexes journals, proceedings, theses and dissertation, and USGS reports. Compiled by Robert D. Tucker and Marc C. Loiselle, Natural Resources Information and Mapping Center, Maine Geological Survey, Maine Department of Conservation. 

Cold regions bibliography
A database of over 200,000 references covering cold regions research including the geological sciences.  Approximately 6,000 references added annually.   Maintained by the Science and Technology Division, Library of Congress with sponsorship and support provided by U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory and the Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation.

Deep Sea Drilling Project
Searchable database of papers resulting from the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Ocean Drilling Program and Integrated Ocean Drilling Program.  Search by title, author, keyword, year of publication, and author affiliation.  Linked to full text of Ocean Drilling Reports.  Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, American Geological Institute.

Geological Society of America - Search the Journals
A searchable database of citations from articles in the following three GSA publications:  Geology (1973-2000), GSA Bulletin (1972-2000), and GSA Today (1991-2000)

GeoRef - 1785-present online. If you are connecting to this database off the University of Maine campus but within the State of Maine, please connect through Maine's Science, Technology & Business Library.
Established and maintained by the American Geological Institute, this database is the online equivalent of the print Bibliography and Index of Geology (Sci Index QE1.G2145, 1969-present).   Searching is by author, title, subject, and abstract keyword.  Over 3,500 serial titles are scanned for inclusion.

GeoRef preview database
Also made available through the American Geological Institute, this database allows users to preview records before they are input into the GeoRef database.  It is updated weekly with records in various forms of completeness.  Completed records are added to the GeoRef database. 

Georoc: Geochemistry of rocks of the oceans and continents
Search for citations by author and keyword and limit by date.  From MPI fur Chemie, Manz, Germany

GEOSCAN Database
A bibliographic database of over 40,000 records, most of which are Geological Survey of Canada publications.  Searchable by title, author, and subject, area.  Searches can be limited by province.

A guide to speleological literature of the English language 1794-1996. 1998.  Northrup, D.E., Mobley, E.D., Ingham, K.L., and Mixon, W.W. (compilers and editors). St. Louis: Cave Books. 539p.
Indexed by author (including secondary authors), illustrators, and titles. Contains bibliographic information only.
Sci Ref Z6033.C3G85

Index of USGS web servers
A complete linked list of USGS web servers.

The index to marine & lacustrine geological samples database
This index is a cooperative effort between 19 institutions and government agencies.  This database, known as the Curator's Database, "...contains inventory and standardized lithology, texture, and age information for over 91,000 seafloor samples archived by oceanographic institutions and government agencies, and is searchable by any parameter or combination of parameters."

IngentaConnect
A table of contents database indexing over 26,000 journals across many disciplines including the geological sciences. Searchable by title key word, journal title, and author (up to 3 authors listed - first two and last).

Publications Index The Society of Exploration Geophysicists. 
A searchable index of publications from the following:  the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the European Association of Exploration Geophysicists, the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists and the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists. Coverage from 1936-2005

Reference searcher for ocean floor tectonics
A searchable database of over 4,000 references created and maintained by Kensaku Tamaki, Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo. Searchable by author, title, journal name, geographic location, and keyword. 

References to optical spectra of minerals.
Lists by mineral name and keyed to author/reference list. Over 650 references. Mineral Spectroscopy Server, California Institute of Technology. Update of Chapter 7 on optical spectroscopy in Reviews of Mineralogy, V. 18. (Mineralogical Society of America)

U.S. coal resource database
A searchable database of federal and state government reports concerning U.S. coal resources.  Created and maintained by the Eastern Energy Resources Team, USGS.

U.S. Geological Survey Information by State
Science in your backyard site. Click on a state and view USGS publications pertaining to that state. Maine.

U.S.Geological Survey Library: Online Catalog
Search the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) library catalog by author, title, subject, keyword, or number.

Water resources abstracts
Index to international scientific literature on all aspects of water resources issues. Includes abstracts of journal articles (see serials source list), monographs, technical reports, books, and conference proceedings. Searchable by author and title, abstract, and subject descriptors. Coverage from 1967. Updated quarterly.

Water resource reports
New and highlighted full-text USGS reports.

Web of Science. 1900-present
Science Citation Index 1965-2003.
Sci Index Q1.A1S36
Web of Science includes Science Citation Index from 1900-present.  Search by word in the title, keyword, and abstract.  Perform cited reference searches from 1900 to present. Limit by author affiliation and document type.  Over 4,000 journals are indexed (see the master journal list).

Earth Science Journals Author Instruction Pages

Electronic Journals

Ejournals@UMaine
Note:  This is a link to the geology related electronic journals available through URSUS.  There are other electronic journals that earth science researchers would find useful.  See Ejournals@UMaine as well as URSUS.

Geoscience e-journals, the portal
Links to 54 (as of June  2009) open access electronic journals related to geosciences.

Dictionaries, Glossaries, and Encyclopedias

Anderson, M.G. and McDonnell, J.J. (eds.) 2005. Encyclopedia of hydrological sciences. Chichester, UK: Wiley. 5 vols.
Sci Ref GB655.E527 2005

CCRS Remote Sensing Glossary
Developed and maintained by the Canadian Centre for Remote Sensing

Dasch, E.J. (ed.) 1996. Encyclopedia of earth sciences. New York: Macmillan Reference Library, 2 vols.
Sci Ref QE5.E5137 1996

Dictionary of geologic terms
geotech.org

Dictionary of mining & mineral terms
This searchable dictionary of over 26,000 terms corresponding to the 1996 cd-rom of the same name, was produced by the U.S. Bureau of Mines.  Available through Global InfoMine.

A dictionary of quaternary acronyms and abbreviations
A searchable dictionary of over 950 acronyms and abbreviations compiled and maintained by Alwynne B. Beaudoin, University of Calgary.

Elias, S.A. (ed.) 2007. Encyclopedia of quaternary science. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 4 vols.
Sci Ref QE741.E53 2007

Elsevier's dictionary of glaciology in four languages[:] English (with definitions), Russian (with definitions), French and German. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 336p.
Sci Ref GB2401.E57 1990

Fettes, D. and Desmons, J. (eds.) 2007. Metamorphic rocks [:] a classified and glossary of terms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 244p.
Sci Ref QE475.A2M4746 2007

Fourestier, J. de. 1999. Glossary of mineral synonyms. Ottawa: Mineralogical Association of Canada. 434p.
Sci Ref QE357.F68 1999

GEOLEX - Geologic names lexicon. USGS

GeoRef thesaurus. 9th ed. 2000. Alexandria, VA: American Geological Institute.
 Sci Ref QE7.G45 9th ed. 2000

Global change master directory list of earth science acronyms, glossaries and gazetteers
This list is maintained by Lola Olsen, NASA, and is part of NASA's Global change master directory.

Glossary of physical geology terms
Created by Dr. Michael Pidwirny, Department of Geography, Okanagan University College

Glossary of selected glacier and related terminology. USGS. Cascades Volcano Observatory.

Good, G.A. (ed.) 1998. Sciences of the earth[:] An encyclopedia of events, people, and phenomena. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 2 vols.
Sci Ref QE11.S38 1998

Goudie, A.S. (ed.) 2004. Encyclopedia of geomorphology. London: Routledge. 2 vols. 1156p.
Sci Ref GB400.3.E53 2004

Gubbins, D. and Herrero-Bervera, E. 2007. Encyclopedia of geomagnetism and paleomagnetism. Dordrecht: Springer.

Illustrated glossary of alpine glacial landforms. Karen A. Lemke, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and the Virtual Geography Department and Linda Freeman, College of the Siskiyous.

Jackson, J.A. and Bates, R.L. 1997. Glossary of geology. 4th ed. Alexandria, VA: American Geological Institute. 769p.
Sci Ref QE5.B38 1997

Le Maitre, R.W. (ed.)  2002. Igneous rocks - A classification and glossary of terms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 236p.
Sci Ref QE461.I446 2002

Manutchehr-Danai, M. 2008. Dictionary of gems and gemology. Berlin: Springer.

Middleton, G.V. (ed.) 2003. Encyclopedia of sediments and sedimentary rocks. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 821p.
Sci Ref QE 471.2.E53 2003

Moores, E.M. and Fairbridge, R.W. (eds.) 1997. Encyclopedia of European and Asian regional geology. London: Chapman & Hall, 804p.
Sci Ref QE260.E63 1997

Schwartz, M.L. (ed.) 2005. Encyclopedia of coastal science. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. 1211p.
Sci Ref GB450.4.E533 2005

Selley, R.C., Cocks, L.R.M., and Plimer, I.R. (eds.) 2005. Encyclopedia of geology. 5 vols. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 
Sci Ref QE5.E516 2005

Sigurdsson, H. (Editor-in-Chief). 2000. Encyclopedia of volcanoes. San Diego: Academic Press. 1417 p. 
Sci Ref  QE522.E53 2000 

Singer, R. (ed.) 1999. Encyclopedia of paleontology. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn. 2 volumes. 1435p.
Sci Ref QE703.E58 1999

Soil glossary. National Land and Water Information Service. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

UCMP glossary, Volume 2: Geology.
Glossary of geological terms from the Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley.

Visual glossary.
USGS, Earthquake Hazards Program

Woodhead, J.A. 1999. Geology [encyclopedia]. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2 vols.
Sci Ref QE5.G465 1999

Directories, Handbooks, and Yearbooks

Art's mineral identification chart
Chart created by Art Crossman as a college course project at Mansfield University

ATHENA - Mineralogy.
From the Department of Mineralogy, University of Geneva. Maintained by Pierre Perroud. Carmichael, R.S. 1989.

Brassington, R. 2007. Field hydrogeology[:] The geological field guide series. 3rd ed. Chichester, UK: John Wiley. 264p.
Sci Ref GB1002.3.B73 2007

Central Region Geology. USGS

CRC practical handbook of physical properties of rocks and minerals. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 741p.
Sci Ref QE431.6.P5P73 1989

Directory of geoscience departments . 2005. 43th ed. Alexandria, VA: American Geological Institute, 585p.
Sci Ref QE47.A1D57

Directory of geoscience organizations of the world. Developed by the International Geoscience Cooperation Office, Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Environmental scientists and hydrologists. Occupational Outlook Handbook. U.S. Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

European geoscience university departments. Maintained by Institut fur Geowissenschaften Mainz.  See also Geoscience departments WWW Directory - US & Canada.

Geologic guidebooks of North America database. American Geological Institute

Geologic time periods
Produced by the Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley See also Interactive geological time scale. American Geological Institute

Geological time scale. Andrew MacRae. Geologist's directory. 1996. [London]: Institution of Geologists, 568p.
Sci Ref QE23.G44 1996

Georoc: Geochemistry of rocks of the oceans and continents
From MPI fur Chemie, Manz, Germany

Geoscience departments WWW Directory - US & Canada
Created by V.J. Ansfield, maintained by T.H. Heaton, University of South Dakota. See also European geoscience university departments Geoscience Information Society Guidebooks Committee.

Geoscientists. Occupational Outlook Handbook. U.S. Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Guide to geoscience departments in the United States & Canada 1997-98. 1997. 5th ed. Alexandria, VA: American Geological Institute, 559p.
Sci Ref QE47.A1G85 1997-98.

Ice Core Sites
From the National Ice Core Laboratory Science Management Office, The Climate Change Research Center, University of New Hampshire

Manson, C. and Gordon, I.D. 1997. 5th ed. Directory of geoscience libraries, North America. Alexandria, VA: Geoscience Information Society, 113p.
Sci Ref  Z675.G46 D57 1997.

Marine geology data
Maintained by the National Geophysical Data Center's (NGDC) Marine Geology and Geophysics division.  Contains marine geological data available through the NGDC.  Searching is by latitude/longitude, water depth, sampling device, author, and cruise.

Mineral Commodity Summaries
Mineral industry data published annually by USGS.

Mineral Industry Surveys
Statistical data on mineral commodities including information on consumption, distribution, production, and stocks.  Produced and maintained by Minerals Information, USGS.

Mineralogy database
Produced and maintained by David Barthelmy, petroleum geology consultant. Contains almost 4,000 mineral descriptions with information about physical and optical properties, chemical formulaes, classification (Dana and Strunz), and crystal form.

Minerals Yearbook
Produced and maintained by Minerals Information, USGS. Maine 1994-2005

National geologic map database
A searchable database of lithologic and geochronologic unit names.  From USGS

National Museum of Natural History. Department of Mineral Sciences Collections.

North American Stratigraphic Code. The North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 89(11): 1547-1591. 2005.

O'Donoghue, M. (ed.) 2006. Gems [:] Their sources, descriptions and identification. 6th ed . Amsterdam: Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier. 873p.
Sci Ref QE392.W37 2006

ODSN (Ocean Drilling Stratigraphic Network) Plate Tectonic Reconstruction Service.
"...calculate platetectonic reconstrcutions of any age back to 150 My."

Pott, P.J., Tindle, A.G., and Webb, P.C. 1992. Geochemical reference material compositions. Latheronwheel, Caithness, U.K.: Whittles Pub.; Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 313p.
Sci Ref QE438.P67 1992

Recent earthquake activity in the USA. National Earthquake Information Center, USGS

Reimann, C. and de Caritat, P. 1998. Chemical elements in the environment [:] Factsheets for the geochemist and environmental scientist. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 397p.
Sci Ref QE516.4.R45 1998

Resources of scholarly societies - Earth sciences. University of Waterloo Electronic Library Scholarly Societies Project.
An alphabetic list of earth science societies.

Schoeneberger, P.J., Wysocki, D.A., Benham, E.C., and Broderson, W.D. (eds.) 2002. Field book for describing and sampling soils, Version 2.0. Lincoln, NE: Natural Resources Conservation Service, National Soil Survey Center.

State geological survey office links. Maine
Association of American State Geologists

Suspended-sediment database: Daily values of suspended sediment and ancillary data. 
Retrieve data by state, hydrologic region, and time period.  USGS.

Treatise on geochemistry. 2004. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 10 volumes.
Sci Ref QE515.T64 2004

Union list of geologic field trip guidebooks of North America. 1996. 6th ed. Alexandria, VA: American Geological Institute, in cooperation with the Geoscience Information Society, 329p.
Sci Ref QE45.G48 1996

USGS Earthquake Information

Virtual field trip guides: United States and Canada. The Walter Geology Library. University of Texas at Austin.

Western Region Geological Information. USGS

World Glacier Inventory 
Collected and digitized by the World Glacier Monitoring Service, Zurich.

World reference base for soil resources. 1998. International Society of Soil Science (ISSS), International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations

Associations and Societies

Associated Societies Professional societies and associations in geology. The University of British Columbia Library. Maintained by Kevin Lindstrom, Science & Engineering Reference Librarian. Individual Associations and Societies

American Geological Institute. Member Societies

American Geological Institute
American Geophysical Union
Association for Women Geoscientists
Geological Society of America
International Union of Geological Sciences
Mineralogical Association of Canada
Mineralogical Society of America
National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Society of Exploration Geologists
The Geological Society - London

Atlases and Geographic Name Servers

Atlas of igneous and metamorphic rocks, minerals, & textures. 
Part of the Virtual Geology Project of the University of North Carolina.

Canadian geographical names
Natural Resources Canada

Color landform atlas of the United States.  Maine
Maintained by Ray Sterner. Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University.

Geographic names information system (GNIS). USGS

Getty thesaurus of geographic names online. The J. Paul Getty Trust

Ground water atlas of the United States. New England
U.S. Department of the Interior, USGS

MacKenzie, W.S. and Adams, A.E. 1994. A color atlas of rocks and minerals in thin section. New York: Halsted Press, 192p.
Sci Ref QE434.M33 1994

Maher, L.J., Jr. Geology by lightplane. 
Includes 335 aerial photographs of Midwest and western U.S. geologic formations for noncommercial educational use.

A tapestry of time and terrain: The union of two maps - geology and topology. 
Developed by the USGS, U.S. Department of the Interior.

U.S. Board on Geographic Names - Antarctica Names. USGS

World atlas of panoramic aerial images
California Geographical Survey. Developed by Dr. William A. Bowen

Virtual Libraries

Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)
A partnership between NSF and DLESE

Earth Reference Data and Models. EarthRef.org

Earth Science Information Resources
Compiled and maintained by the Branner Earth Sciences Library, Stanford University.

Geology Web Links
MinServ

Martindale's "Virtual" Geoscience Center

Mineralogy and Petrology Research on the Web
Maintained by Andrea Koziol, University of Dayton.

NGDC marine geology inventory (GEOLIN)
inventory of all geological data available from National Geophysical Data Center's Marine Geology & Geophysics Division.

USGS Library - Online Catalog

USGS photographic library

Web resources for sedimentary geologists
Developed and maintained by Dr. Becky Dorsey, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon

West's geology directory
Compiled and maintained by Dr. Ian West, Department of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, UK, this site contains links to hundreds of geologic Web sites.   It is arranged by subject.  Updated frequently.

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