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Glossary of Geology

IDEALS - UIUC Digital Repository (Theses, Dissertations, and more)

Geology Theses, UIUC, full text, from IDEALS

University Archives, Geology Department

Internet Archives & Wayback Machine

Hathi Trust Digital Library

Hathi Trust Government Documents Registry - many online, free

Find Books, Articles, & More:

Online Catalogs:

• UIUC Library Gateway
• UIUC Online Catalog
• Illinios Libraries Online Catalogs (I-Share)
• WorldCat UIUC ; WorldCat(Worldwide) ; Free version
• Search Multiple U.S. Online Catalogs
  • ISGS Publications Catalog
  • USGS Library Catalog
  • Environment Canada Library
  • Lib-Web-Cats - A directory of libraries, worldwide
  • Voila - Canada

E-books:

• AAPG Special Publications - full text (includes memoirs)
• AGU Digital Library
  • Easy Search - Includes e-books from Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, Hathi Trust, Google, & others.
  • Geological Society of America Books ; Another link
  • Google Books
  • Hathi Trust (a partnership of major research institutions and libraries )
  • Internet Archive; Texts
  • Lyell Collection - Geological Society of London - Another link
• USGS Publications Warehouse
  • Million Books Project
• SEPM
  • Springer e-books - new books

Other:

• Amazon.com (some tables of contents, etc.)
• Biographical: Who's Who Online ; Find a Grave ; GSA Memorials
• Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles (CAAR) - from U Texas, Austin.
• EROS History Project
  • Field Trip Guidebooks Database [Try It!] Old Version
  • Geolex - U.S. Geologic Names Lexicon ("Geolex"), a National compilation of names and descriptions of geologic units.
• BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units
  • Geological Survey of CanadaPublications (some free downloads)
  • GEOSCAN - Pubs of NR Canada
  • Geoscience in Your State - AGI
  • Geoscience Information Society Proceedings (full text)
  • National Academy Press - many books with full text
  • Oilfield Glossary - Schlumberger
  • Online Guide to Sequence Stratigraphy - UGA
• OpenGeoSci - a free map-based discovery interface; search for maps, cross sections, charts, tables, figures, and data from GeoScienceWorld publications.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A.
  • SEG Wiki - Geophysics
  • Soil Surveys
    • Illinois Online Soil Survey Manuscripts - NRCS
    • Illinois Soil Survey Maps - NRCS
  • Theses & Dissertations:
    • ProQuest Digital Dissertations (USA) - many with full text
    • Canadian Theses and Dissertations - Full Text (Theses Canada Portal)
    • DissOnline - German Dissertations
    • Index to Theses - Great Britain and Ireland
  • USGS Publications Warehouse - many with links to full text; searchable
  • USGS Field Records Collection
  • Virtual Technical Reports Center - U. Maryland Libraries
  • Webopedia - Online Tech Dictionary
• Workforce, Geoscience; AGI Reports
  • Biography (subscription) Marquis Biography

Find Geologic Maps & Other Maps:

• National Geologic Map Database - USA
• World Geologic Maps - USGS
• Locations of Geologic Maps at University of Illinois
  • Digital Geologic Maps of U.S. States - USGS
  • GeoRef
  • Maps: Dealers, Catalogs, & Indexes
  • Map Librarians' Toolbox - WAML
  • Commission for the Geological Map of the World
  • OneGeology.org - with links to national surveys
  • U.S. National Atlas
  • The National Map
  • GeoGratis - Canadian Geospatial Data
  • Geological Maps of Canada - Natural Resources Canada
• OpenGeoSci - a free map-based discovery interface; search for maps, cross sections, charts, tables, figures, and data from GeoScienceWorld publications.
  • OpenGeoscience - British Geological Survey; geological maps, photographs, software, research output, educational materials and other geoscience information.
  • Topo Map Indexes - USA
  • Topographic Maps; Historical - USGS
  • Topographic Maps: World, various scales (Chris Thiry) [more]
  • Topographic Maps; USSR & Afghanistan, 1:200,000 (Chris Thiry)
  • TerraServer - by subscription
  • National Map Viewer - USGS
  • Champaign County GIS Consortium
  • US Bureau of Land Management Maps
  • USGS Folio Maps - TAMU (search "usgs folio")
  • World Stress Map Project
  • GEON
  • David Rumsey Maps
  • Perry-Castañeda Library Maps - U.TX Austin
  • Geographic Names Information System
• Overlap Maps

Find Geological Data Sets:

• National Directory of Geoscience Data Repositories (physical data)
• Global Change Master Directory
• GEON
• Online Spatial Data for the Geosciences - USGS
• Other links to data sources
• Data Management for the Geosciences

Find Science Videos & Photos:

• SciVee
• Degree Confluence Project
  • High Res Photos
  • GigaPan, Geology
    • By Ron Schott (GigaPan)

Tools

• GeoReferencing
  • Bounding Box
• GeoRef Thesaurus Lists
  • Overlap Maps - Visually compare sizes of two places
  • Wayback Machine - Archived web pages; Internet Archive
• Writing
  • How to use stratigraphic terminology in papers, illustrations, and talks, by Owens (2009)
  • Suggestions to Authors of the Reports of the United States Geological Survey
  • Chicago Manual of Style (UI Only)

Science & Faith

• BioLogos
• American Scientific Affiliation
  • Books
    • The Grand Canyon, Monument to an Ancient Earth: Can Noah's Flood Explain the Grand Canyon?
    • How I changed my mind about evolution; evangelicals reflect on faith and science
• The nature of science and the scientific method - GSA

Find Articles:

• GeoRef - Geology and related - Another link ; Here
  • GeoRef Preview Database
• Web of Knowledge (ISI) - Interdisciplinary; citation searches
• Proquest - Interdisciplinary (another link)
• GeoScienceWorld - new subscription! 10/17/2011
• Easy Search
• AAPG Datapages Subscription
• AGU Digital Library
• American Journal of Science (also, Special Volumes)
• Bibliography of Illinois Geology - ISGS Library
• Biological Abstracts - includes environmental and paleontology
• Cold Regions Database - from AGI/GeoRef
• Directory of Open Access Journals; Earth and Environmental Sciences
• Energy Citations Database - bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE)
• Engineering Village (Compendex, INSPEC, NTIS) - Engineering & Applied Science
• ENTREZ (Life Sciences Search Engine from NCBI)
• Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
• GeoBase - Geology, geography, and related
• Geologic Names Lexicon - for articles related to geologic formations and units, including revisions
• Geological Society of America Abstracts
• Geoscience Information Society Proceedings (Geology Librarianship)
• GeoScienceWorld
• GSIS Proceedings
• Institute on Lake Superior Geology Online Publications
• Institute on Lake Superior Geology Publications Search
• New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference (NEIGC) Guidebooks - pre-1990 online
• SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts) - You must register first. Then login.
• Science.gov - gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results. Includes some articles in commercial publications.
• Technical Report Archive and Image Library - TRAIL-Technical Report Archive and Image Library: a collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975.
• USGS Illinois Water Science Center Searchable Publications Database
• USGS Publications Warehouse - many with links to full text; searchable
• Water ResourcesAbstracts - Water and environmental
• Zoological Record

Search Multiple Journals for Full Text Articles:

• AAPG Datapages
• AGU Digital Library
• American Geophysical Union - Search AGU publications
• Geological Society of America (GSA) publications - Another link
• Informaworld Taylor Francis
• JSTOR (Includes older issues of Science and others)
• Lyell Collection (Geological Society of London) - Another link
• SEPM
• Springer/Kluwer Online Journals
• Science Direct - Elsevier Onine Journals

Find Articles for Undergraduate Papers:

• Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
• UIUC Easy Search

Search the Web for Articles & Web Pages:

• Scopus - (Elsevier)
• Google Scholar

Search Repositories

• Hathi Trust - partnership of major research institutions and libraries
• IDEALS - University of Illinois Repository
• PerX Engineering Repository Cross Search Pilot Project - searches across a variety of digital repositories of interest to the engineering

Connect to Full Text Articles & Books

• Connect to Geology Electronic Journals
• Connect to Journals & Newspapers (using New SFX resource)
• AGU Digital Library
• GSA Journals & Books
• Lyell Collection (Geological Society of London)
• USGS Publications Warehouse - many with links to full text; searchable
• Easy Search (good for finding e-books from Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, and more)

Newspapers

• Chronicling America - Historic Newspapers (for example, search "earthquake" or "gold strike" or "volcanic eruption" or "teapot dome")
• Illinois Digital Newspapers

Some Online Field Trip Guidebooks

Guidebook of the Western United States: Part A - The Northern Pacific Route, With a Side Trip to Yellowstone Park, 1915, USGS Bulletin 611, by Marius R. Campbell and and others

Guidebook of the Western United States: Part B - The Overland Route, With a Side Trip to Yellowstone Park: Part B, 1915, USGS Bulletin 612, by Willis Thomas Lee, Ralph Walter Stone, Hoyt Stoddard Gale, and others

Guidebook of the Western United States: Part C - The Santa Fe Route, with a side trip to Grand Canyon of the Colorado, 1916, USGS Bulletin 613, by Nelson Horatio Darton, and others

Guidebook of the Western United States: Part D - The Shasta Route and Coast Line, 1915, USGS Bulletin 614, by Joseph Silas Diller, and others

Guidebook of the Western United States: Part E - The Denver & Rio Grande Western Route, 1922, USGS Bulletin 707, by Marius R. Campbell

Guidebookof the Western United States: Part F - The Southern Pacific lines, New Orleans to Los Angeles, 1933, USGS Bulletin 845, by Nelson Horatio Darton

Webinars

FDLP Academy - Calendar

USGS Library Materials for Earth's Age