Geoscience Resources

New Mexico Tech Library's Best Picks

Geoscience Resources on the Web

• Earth and Environmental Science Resources from the US Geological Survey
• Earth Viewer, realtime image of Earth from space (choose your satellite)
• EINet Galaxy's Geosciences (searchable)
• EINet Galaxy's Meteorology and Climatology (searchable)
• Geotimes
• Internet Public Library--Geology/Geophysics Reference
• Internet Public Library--Paleontology Reference
• New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
• New Mexico Tech Earth and Environmental Science Department
• New Mexico Tech Geophysics Open-File Reports
• SciCentral
• U.S. Gazetteer--good for verifying place names and locations
• United States Geological Survey
• WWW Virtual Library's Earth Sciences
• WWW Virtual Library's Geophysics
• WWW Virtual Library's Remote Sensing

Geoscience Electronic Indexes on the Web

• Applied Science and Technology Abstracts (available from NM Tech IP addresses)
• ESTOC--Elsevier Science Tables of Contents. A searchable table of contents service for the last year of Elsevier, Pergamon, North Holland, and Excerpta Medica journals.
• FirstSearch Databases (available from NM Tech IP addresses)
• General Science Abstracts (available from NM Tech IP addresses)
• Geobase (available from NM Tech IP addresses)
• GeoRefS (available from NM Tech IP addresses)

Geoscience Electronic Journals on the Web

• Lite Geology from the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
• Yahoo's Geology and Geophysics Journals

Geoscience Indexes in the New Mexico Tech Library

• Abstracts with Programs, 1969-Present
• Aqualine Abstracts, 1985-1996
• Bibliography and Index of Geology, 1969-Present
• Geological Abstracts, 1991-1996
• Geologie Africaine Bibliographie; African Geology Bibliography, 1989-Present
• Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts, 1961-1996
• Mineralogical Abstracts, 1957-Present

Geoscience Reference Books in the New Mexico Tech Library

• Atlas of Infrared Spectroscopy of Clay Minerals and their Admixtures. (REF GE389.625 .M37)
• AGI Data Sheets for Geology in the Field, Laboratory, and Office. (REF QE52 .A36 1989)
• Bibliography of New Mexico Geology and Mineral Technology, 1989. (REF QE143 .B5 no.130)
• Dictionary of Petrology. (REF QE423 .T65 1983)
• Directory of Mines of New Mexico. (REF QE143 .M55 C5 no.77)
• Encyclopedia of Minerals. (REF QE355 .R6 1990)
• The Encyclopedia of Paleontology. (REF QE703 .E52)
• The Encyclopedia of Sedimentology. (REF QE471 .E49)
• The Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics. (REF QE501 .E58 1989)
• The Encyclopedia of Structural Geology and Plate Tectonics. (REF QE601 .E53 1987)
• Encyclopedia of Earth System Science. (REF QE5 .E514 1991 V.1)
• Geochemical Reference Material Compositions. (REF QE438 .P67 1992)
• Glossary of Geology. (REF QE5 .B38 1987)
• Glossary of Mineral Species. (REF QE357 .F54 1975)
• Guide to USGS Geological Hydrological Maps. (REF QE77 .G84 1994)
• Handbook of Geochemistry. (REF QE515 .W42 V.1)
• Handbook of Physical Properties of Rocks. (REF QE431.6 .P5 C18 V.1)
• An Index of Mineral Species and Varieties arranged chemically. (REF QE386 .B8)
• Lexicon of Geologic Names of the United States for 1936-1960. (REF QE75 .B9 no.1200 pt.1)
• Magill's Survey of Science. (REF QE28 .M38 1990 V.1)
• McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Earth Sciences. (REF QE5 .M265 1984)
• Practical Handbook of Physical Properties of Rocks and Minerals. (REF QE431.6 .P5 P7 1989)
• SEM Petrology Atlas. (REF QE369 .M5 W45 1984)
• The System of Minerology. (REF QE372 .D23 1944 V.1)

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