Geology

Contact information

Most professional librarians serve as subject bibliographers for one or more academic departments or programs. They work with the faculty members to develop the library's collection, promote its use and provide library instruction.

For the Department of Geological Studies, the subject bibliographer is:

Michael Farmer,
Office: Alden Library, Automation and Bibliographic Control
Phone: (740) 593-2688
E-Mail: farmerm@ohiou.edu

Websites

Societies

American Geological Institute
Link from the AGI website to the home pages of all 34 affiliated geoscience societies

Geological Society (London)
A starting point to British and European resources

Government geological surveys

United States Geological Survey

Geological Survey of Canada

British Geological Survey

Australian Geological Survey

Geological resources

Earth sciences organizations
Earth science organizations listed by continent and then country.

Volcano World
A humorous and educational site on concerning volcanoes maintained by the scientists at the University of North Dakota.

Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC), University of Wisconsin-Madison
A comprehensive site for information pertaining to the weather and atmosphere of the earth

The Museum of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkley
A comprehensive site aimed at paleontologists covering all facets of paleontology.

Johnson Space Center's Digital Image Collection
This site contains over 2,500 images that have been collected by the Johnson Space Center.

Jet Propulsion Public Image Archive
This site allows acces to images of the Earth as taken from the Spaceborne Imaging Radar (SIR-C) carried aboard the space shuttle.

Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR)
Images of the earth as seen through the ATSR-1 and ATSR-2 satellites.

National Geophysical Data Center
This site offers beautiful maps and computer simulations of the data collected about the Earth for the NGDC

Extreme science
Check here for information on the highest, lowest, longest, etc. places on earth

Geological resources in Alden library

Books on geology (QE)

and the last 20 years of bound geology periodicals are located on the 7th floor in the west wing. Pre-1980 bound periodicals are stored in the library annex on Columbus Road. Requests for any issues can be made at the circulation desk on the 4th floor .

Books on geomorphology (GB) and oceanography (GC)

are on the 6th floor, at the west end of the center section.

U.S. Geological Survey publications

(Superindentent of Documents prefix I.19) are located in the Government Documents Dept., on the 5th floor. The USGS monthly lists of publications are also in the Documents Dept.

USGS 7.5' topographic quadrangles

are in the Map Collection (west end of the 1st floor). All USGS geological map series are also in the Map Collection. Print copies

of currently received periodicals are in the Current Periodicals room (west end of the 2nd floor). Periodicals are shelved alphabetically by title. The library also has access to a large number of electronic journals covering all aspects of geology. Usually only the last few years are available on-line.

Reference databases

Georef

Provides coverage of United States geological literature from 1785 to the present, and of the rest of the world from 1933.

Print reference works

All of the following are in the reference collection on the 4th floor of Alden library