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Geology: Reference Sources

Suggested Reference Sources

Reference sources available online.

Introducing Geology: A Guide to the World of Rocks
Park, 2019
Hydrogeology Field Manual
McGraw-Hill, 2008.
Oxford Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences
Oxford University Press, 2020

Historical Geology / Palaeontology sources

eBooks available online.

Theory of the Earth
James Hutton's 1788 historic paper, "Theory of the Earth," subtitled "INVESTIGATION of the
Laws observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the Globe."
Voyage of the Beagle
Charles Darwin's 1845 publication.

Essential Reference Books

The Cambridge Handbook of Earth Science Data by Paul Henderson; Gideon M. Henderson
ISBN: 9780521693172
Publication Date: 2009-06-11

Some print reference books are still very useful sources of information. They are found on the Reference book shelves, on the main floor of the Library:

Hey's Mineral Index by Chapman & Hall, 1993.
Call Number: QE357 .C53 1993
Mineral species, varieties, and synonyms
Encyclopedia of sediments & sedimentary rocks by Kluwer, 2003.
Call Number: QE471.2 .E53 2003
Part of the Encyclopedia of Earth Science series.

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