This guide identifies resources for Geosciences found primarily in the Reference Department of the Pius XII Memorial Library.  This guide is not comprehensive; rather it should be supplemented with several other guides for Pius Library such as Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing, and Materials Science and Engineering.  Call numbers pertain to locations within Pius XII Memorial Library.
 

Finding Books Using the Library Catalog || Dictionaries and Guides
Indexing and Abstracting Services || World Wide Web Sites
 

Search the Saint Louis University Libraries Catalog, the SLU electronic library catalog, and MOBIUS, the Missouri Union Catalog, by author, title, keywords, author-title, subject, etc.  Use in the library or by remote access.  The Saint Louis University Libraries Catalog is available from Pius Library's Home Page.  Tip:  Always search Saint Louis University first.  If needed item(s) is/are not found, extend the search to MOBIUS.

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Davis, Lee. Natural Disasters. New York: Checkmark Books, 2002.
     Ref. GB 5014 .D38 2002

Environment Encyclopedia and Directory. 4th Ed. London: Europa Publications, 2005.
     Ref. GE 10. E69 2005 ed.

Goudie, A.S. Encyclopedia of Geomorphology. New York: Routledge: International Association of Geomorphologists, 2004.
     Ref. GB 400.3 .E53 2004, 2 vols.

Goudie, Andrew S, editor. Encyclopedia of Global Change: Environmental Change and Human Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
    Ref. GE 149 .E47 2000

Guide to USGS Publications.  Manassas, VA:  Documents Index, 1998.
     Ref. QE 75 .G85 1998 ed.

Hancock, Paul L. and Skinner, Brian J. Oxford Companion to the Earth. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
     Ref. QE 5 .O94 2000 E-book Available

Hartemann, Frederic. The Mountain Encyclopedia: An A-Z Compendium of More Than 2,300 Terms, Concepts, Ideas, and People. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005.
    Ref. GB 500.5 .H37 2005

Jackson, Julia A, editor.  Glossary of Geology.  4th ed.  Alexandria, VA:  American Geological Institute, 1997.
     Ref. QE 5 .B38 1997

Kusky, Timothy M. Encyclopedia of Earth Science. New York: Facts on File, 2005.
     Ref. QE 5 .K85 2005

Middleton, Gerard V. Encyclopedia of Sediments & Sedimentary Rock. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.
     Ref. QE 471.2 .E53 2003

Munn, Ted. Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change. New York: Wiley, 2002.
     Ref. GE 149 .E433 2002, 5 vols. E-Book Available

Sciences of the Earth:  An Encyclopedia of Events. People, And Phenomena. New York:  Garland, 1998.
     Ref. QE 11 .S38 1998, 2 vols.

Selley, Richard C., Cocks, L. Robin M., and Pilmer, Ian R., editors. Encyclopedia of Geology. Boston: Elsevier Academic, 2005.
     Ref. QE 5 .E516 2005, 5 vols.

Sigurdsson, Haraldur, editor. Encyclopedia of Volcanoes. San Diego: Academic Press, 2000.
    Ref. QE 522 .E53 2000

Thomas, David S.G. and Goudie, Andrew. The Dictionary of Physical Geography. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
    Ref. GB 10 .D53 2000

Wilmarth, M. Grace.  Lexicon of Geologic Names of the United States (Including Alaska).  Washington, DC:  Government Printing Office, 1938.  U.S. Geologic Bulletin 1565
     Government Documents I 19.3:896

     Updated by:

Wilson, Doug.  Geologic Names of North America.  1936-1955.  U.S. Geologic Bulletin 1056

Lexicon of Geologic Names of the United States for 1936-1960.  U.S. Geologic Bulletin 1200

Lexicon of Geologic Names of the United States for 1961-1967.  U.S. Geologic Bulletin 1350

Lexicon of Geologic Names of the United States for 1968-1975.  U.S. Geologic Bulletin 1520

Lexicon of New Formal Geologic Names of the United States, 1976-1980.  U.S. Geologic Bulletin 1564

Lexicon of Geologic Names of the United States for 1981-1985.  U.S. Geologic Bulletin 1565

Woodhead, James A.  Geology.  Pasadena, CA:  Salem Press, 1999.
     Ref. QE 5 .G465 1999  2 vols. 
3,500-word essays on various terms in geology.

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Bibliography and Index of Geology.  v.34-  (1970)- .
     Ref. Z 6031 .G4

Academic Search Premier. 1975- .  EBSCOhost.  In-library and remote access.
     Updated daily.  This multidisciplinary database provides indexing and abstracting for 8,040 journals (6,679 are peer-reviewed) with over 4,060 in full text. Of the peer-reviwed journals 3,529 are full text. Covers subjects found in college and university curriculums such as biological and medical sciences, chemistry, education, engineering, humanities, physics, psychology, religion & theology, sociology, and women's studies.

GeoRef.  1785-  .  EBSCOhost.  In-library and remote access.
     Updated monthly.  Covers the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. Indexes all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey and all relevant masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from U.S. and Canadian universities, in addition to books, maps, reports, and appropriate articles from more than 3,500 journals in 40 languages.  Between 4,000 and 7,000 new references are added each month. This is the electronic equivalent of Bibliography of North American Geology, Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, Geophysical Abstracts [Ref. QE 500 .G366] and the Bibliography and Index of Geology [Ref. Z 6031 .G4].

GPO (Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications).  1976- .  FirstSearch.  In-library and remote access.
     Updated quarterly.  The U.S. Government's index to its own publications; the printed counterpart is the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications [Ref. Gov. Docs. GP 3.8:].

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American Association of Petroleum Geologists
     http://www.aapg.org/

AGU (American Geophysical Union)
     http://www.agu.org/

Data And Information About The Solid Earth
     http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/

EAS (Earth & Atmospheric Sciences) Saint Louis University
     http://www.eas.slu.edu/Department/department.html

Earth Science Links
     http://www.eas.slu.edu/Department/links.html

The Geological Society of America
     http://www.geosociety.org/

Geoscience Departments WWW Directory - U.S. & Canada
     http://www.usd.edu/esci/geodepts.html

National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
     http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/

Seismological Society of America (SSA)
     http://www.seismosoc.org/

Society of Exploration Geologists (SEG)
     http://www.seg.org/

United States Geological Survey
     http://www.usgs.gov/

World Data Center for Marine Geology & Geophysics, Boulder
     http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/aboutmgg/wdcamgg.html

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