Geology/Geochemistry Resource Guide

Databases || Reference Tools || Associations & Societies || Earth and Environmental Science Journals Geology Links || Geology/Geochemistry Program || Earth and Environmental Science Department

Databases

• GeoRef (via FirstSearch)
• GeoScienceWorld
• Web of Science (search by subject or cited reference)
• Environment Complete
• Bibliography of NM Geology
• Chemical Abstracts
  Searching available for NMT faculty and students by appointment. Call 835-6367.
• Compendex (Engineering Index)
• Dissertation Abstracts Online (via FirstSearch)
• PapersFirst [conferences] (via FirstSearch)

Government Publications

• USGS Publications
• USGS Warehouse
• New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources

General (include full-text articles)

• Academic Search Premier
• Expanded Academic ASAP
• Wilson Select Plus

Reference Tools

Dictionary of Earth Sciences - Ref QE5.D54 1999

Encyclopedia of Earth System Science - Ref QE5 .E514 1991 (4 volumes)

Encyclopedia of Geochemistry - Ref QE515.E48 1999

Encyclopedia of Geology - Ref QE5 .E516 2005 (5 volumes)

Encyclopedia of Minerals - Ref QE355 .R6 1990

Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics - Ref Q175.35.E53 2005 (4 volumes)

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Geology and Mineralogy - Ref QE5.M3654 2003

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology - Ref Q121 .M3 2002 (20 volumes)

Oxford Companion to the Earth - Ref QE5 .O94 2000

Geochemical Reference Material Compositions: Rocks, Minerals, Sediments, Soils, Carbonates, Refractions, & Ores Used in Research and Industry - Ref QE438 .P67 1992

Handbook of Environmental Analysis: Chemical Pollutants in Air, Water, Soil, and Solid Wastes, 2nd ed. - Ref TD 193 .P38 2010

Information Sources in the Earth Sciences - Ref QE26.2 .Z5 1989

Treatise on Geochemistry - Ref QE515.T69 2003 (10 volumes)

World Atlas of the Oceans - ATLAS G2800.W4413 2001 (Garden Level)

Associations & Societies

• ACS (American Chemical Society) Geochemistry Division http://membership.acs.org/g/geoc/
• Association for Women Geoscientists http://www.awg.org/
• European Geosciences Union http://www.egu.eu/
• Geochemical Society http://www.geochemsoc.org/
• Geological Society of America http://www.geosociety.org/
• International Union of Geological Sciences http://www.iugs.org/
• US Geological Survey http://www.usgs.gov

Geology/Geochemistry Links

• E-Print Network: Geosciences http://www.osti.gov/eprints/pathways/geosciences.shtml/
  Links to servers, sites, and documents that contain e-print information in the geosciences.

• EarthRef http://earthref.org/
  Umbrella site for sources of reference data and models in the physical & chemical earth sciences

• MIT OpenCourseWare: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Earth--Atmospheric--and-Planetary-Sciences/index.htm
  
Free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners.

• National Geologic Map Database http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/
  Find information about maps and related data for: geology, hazards, earth resources, geophysics, geochemistry, geochronology, paleontology, and marine geology

Research Facilities affiliated with NMT:
• New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources http://geoinfo.nmt.edu/
  
• IRIS/PASSCAL http://www.passcal.nmt.edu/
  

• USGS Science Topics http://www.usgs.gov/science/
  Links to online information arranged by subject

• Virtual Geosciences Professor http://www.uh.edu/~jbutler/anon/anonfield.html
  Collection of online courses with geoscience content.