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• Coverage: North American geology: 1785-current; international geology: 1933-current.
• Type(s) of Content: Abstract; Index
• Subject Areas:
• Library of Congress Clasification:
• Short Description:
  Indexing and abstracts of journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses on the subject of geoscience, with coverage from 1785 to the present.
• Annotation:
  Contains references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. Includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from US and Canadian universities are also covered. Major areas of coverage include:

  • Areal geology
  • Economic geology
  • Engineering geology
  • Environmental geology
  • Extraterrestrial geology
  • Geochemistry
  • Geochronology
  • Geophysics
  • Hydrogeology and hydrology
  • Marine geology and oceanography
  • Mathematical geology
  • Mineralogy and Crystallography
  • Paleontology
  • Petrology
  • Seismology
  • Stratigraphy
  • Structural geology
  • Surficial geology