RESOURCES
YOUR GATEWAY TO EARTH SCIENCE The study of Earth is a long journey that encompasses an understanding of the origin of our planet to the way it is today. To quote British geologist Derek Victor Ager from The Nature of the Stratigraphical Record,
The history of any part of the earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror.
To help you get started on your quest for information on Earth Science, here is a list of some useful resources:
Subscribed Databases GeoRef (via GeoScienceWorld) Established by American Geosciences Institute, it is a comprehensive database in geosciences covering subjects such as geochemistry, marine geology and oceanography, paleontology, structural geology, geophysics, environmental geology etc.
ProQuest Earth Science Collection This collection contains full-text articles from nearly 1000 journals in earth sciences with granular access to figures and tables within articles. In addition to the GeoRef database, ProQuest Deep Indexing provides searching of indexed figures, tables, graphs, maps, charts and other illustrations from scholarly journals
E-books Lyell Collection An online collection of Earth science literature from Geological Society of London. It covers all 367 volumes of Special Publications; 22 volumes of Engineering Geology Special Publications; 36 volumes of Memoirs; and 4 volumes of Petroleum Geology Conference Series. In addition to these monographs, all the journals at Lyell Collection are also accessible.
Treatise on Geophysics 1st ed.
Provides access to four geosciences book series publications: Special Papers (volume 300 onwards); Memoirs (volume 186 onwards); Field Guides (volume 1 onwards); and Reviews in Engineering Geology (volume 16 onwards).
This is the only comprehensive, state-of-the-art, and integrated summary of the present state of geophysics. Offering an array of articles from some of the top scientists around the world, this 11-volume work deals with all major parts of Solid-Earth Geophysics, including a volume on the terrestrial planets and moons in our solar system. This major reference work will aid researchers, advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professionals in cutting-edge research that can be conducted easily, with all the relevant information that they need right at their fingertips.
AGU collection
Treatise on Geochemistry 1st ed.
Provides more than 500 Earth and space sciences titles including these series: Geophysical Monograph Series, Antarctic Research Series, Special Publications, Water Resources Monograph, Geodynamics Series, History of Geophysics, Field Trip Guidebooks, Short Courses in Geology, Global Geoscience Transects, Coastal and Estuarine Studies, Computational Seismology and Geodynamics, AGU Reference Shelf, and Water Science and Application.
The “Treatise on Geochemistry” is the first work providing a comprehensive, integrated summary of the present state of geochemistry. It deals with all the major subjects in the field, ranging from the chemistry of the solar system to environmental geochemistry. The “Treatise on Geochemistry” has drawn on the expertise of outstanding scientists throughout the world, creating “the” reference work in geochemistry for the next decade.
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