Related Web Pages:
Geography |
Map Library |
Topographic Maps |
Geologic Maps |
Maps, Cartography & GIS
| Rocks & Minerals |
- USGS Minerals
- CERES Mineral Resources California Resources Agency
- The Petrology of Sedimentary Rocks R. L. Folk
- The Mineral Gallery
- A collection of mineral descriptions, images, and specimens.
- Mineralogy Database
- Gives a mineral's formula, Dana and Strunz classifications, crystallography, physical properties and references.
- EOSC 221: Introduction to Petrology University of British Columbia:
- · Igneous, Metamorphic and Sedimentary Rock Info
- · The Rock Cycle
- Athena Mineralogy
- Find a mineral's formula, crystal system, Strunz number, group, references, and type locality. There are also pictures of some minerals.
- Links for Mineralogists Institute of Mineralogy, University of Würzburg
- Encyclopedia of Minerals
- Reference QE 355 R6 1990
- Hey's Mineral Index
- Reference QE 357 C53 1993
- Minerals Yearbook
- Reference TN 23 U612
- Dictionary of Rocks
- Reference QE 423 M58 1985
- Dictionary of Petrology
- Reference QE 423 T65 1983
- Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals
- Reference QE 443 C45 1978
- Rocks and Minerals of California
- Reference QE 445 B8 1972
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| Environment & Land Use |
- Natural Resources Conservation Service U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Resources on soils, water, and other natural resources.
- · State of the Land
- Land use and change, soil erosion and soil quality, water quality, wetlands, and other issues regarding the conservation and use of natural resources on non-Federal land in the U.S.
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- · Browse EPA Topics
- · Environmental Atlas
- National, state, and regional environmental maps and data.
- CERES: California Environmental Resources Evaluation System California Resources Agency
- Ocean and coastal, land use planning, watersheds, wetlands and environmental law resources.
- Farmland & Open Space Resources California Dept of Conservation
- National Library for the Environment National Council for Science and the Environment
- Includes resources on population and the environment, global climate change, and Congressional Research Service and General Accounting Office reports on environmental topics such as energy, pesticides, population and waste management.
- Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps Claire Englander and Philip Hoehn
- Environmental Information Resources California Digital Library / Library of California
- A "super site" with the following sections: General; Agriculture; Ecology; Energy; Human Interaction; Natural Disasters; Pollution; Water/Ocean; and Weather/Climate. While this guide is unfortunately no longer being updated, so far most of the resources listed are still available.
- Government Statistics: Natural Resources & Environment
- Statistical publications and Web resources.
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| Earth & Environmental Sciences Literature |
- ALIS, the Library's Online System
- · Use Browse to search for subjects or titles.
- · In Keyword searches, use ? for alternate word endings:
- volcan? retrieves volcano, volcanoes, volcanic, volcanism, etc.
- Geologic Maps
- Indexes to geologic maps.
- USGS and CDMG Series Locations
- Locations of the U.S. Geological Survey and California Division of Mines & Geology series (such as Open-File Reports) in the Madden Library.
- Stratigraphic Nomenclature
- A guide to USGS compilations of information on stratigraphic unit names.
| Indexes to Articles & Government Publications |
- The Library might have the articles and books you find through these indexes or databases that are not full-text.
Check the titles of journals in the Periodicals List.
Check book titles in ALIS
Check with the Government Documents Department for publications of the U.S. government (such as the U.S. Geological Survey).
- GeoRef [Off Campus Connection]
- The online version of the American
Geological Institute's geoscience database containing
over 2.2 million records of North America since 1785,
and other areas of the world since 1933. The database
is the equivalent of four major reference publications:
- · Bibliography & Index of Geology (1969- ). Reference Index Area Z 6031 G4
- · Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America (1933-1968).
- Reference Index Area Z 6031 G4
- · Geophysical Abstracts (1929-1971). Periodical Stacks QE 500 U5 no.1-299
- · Bibliography of North American Geology (1732-1970).
Reference Index Area QE 75 B9
- Publications California Geological Survey
- Consolidated Index of Publications of the Division of Mines and Predecessor State Mining Bureau (1880-1943)
- Govt Docs Reference, TN 24 C2 A3 no. 131
- USGS Publications and Data Products from the USGS Web Site
- · Formal Reports (Bulletins, Professional Papers, Circulars, Water-Supply Papers, & Thematic Maps.)
- · Online Products
- · New Publications Govt Docs Reference, US I 19.14/4:
- List of U.S. Geological Survey Geologic and Water-Supply Reports and Maps for California
- Maps Reference Z 7935 .L58 1987
- Govt Docs Ref, US I 19.41/7:C 12
- List of U.S. Geological Survey Geologic and Water-Supply Reports and Maps for [various states]
- Govt Docs Ref, US I 19.41/7:
- Publications of the Geological Survey
- This is a subset of the GeoRef database (above). It contains references to USGS reports and maps published from 1880 to date, and references to non-USGS publications with USGS authors published from 1983 to date.
- Govt Docs Reference, US I 19.14:1879 - present
- Also Reference Z 6034.U49 U54-6 (1879 - 1992)
- Rules for Searching
- Abstracts of North American Geology (1966-1971)
- Periodical Stacks QE 1 A2
- Index to Graduate Theses and Dissertations on California Geology
- Reference TN 24 .C2 A33 no.74, no.115 and suppl, and no. 174
- Related & Multiple-Subject Indexes:
- Expanded Academic Index (1980- ) [Off Campus Connection]
- · Use * for alternate word endings
- General Science Index (1984- ) [Off Campus Connection]
- Applied Science & Technology Index (1983- ) [Off Campus Connection]
- · Use and between search terms unless you want to search a phrase
- · Use * for alternate word endings
- USDA Soil Surveys in the Madden Library
- Govt Docs Reference, US A 57.38
- Environment Abstracts Annual
- Reference Index Area Z 5322 E2 E57
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Doyle
Head, Government Documents & Maps
Henry Madden Library
California State University, Fresno |
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