LibGuides: Geology: Getting Started

Online Reference Sources

Dictionary of Earth Sciences
Coverage of the earth sciences, including geology, oceanography, paleontology, minerology, volcanology, and planetary science as well as climatology, geochemistry, and petrology.
The Oxford Companion to the Earth
Coverage of the Earth Sciences, from volcanoes to flood plains, diamonds to meteors, deserts to deep seas.
A Dictionary of Geography
Includes entries on all aspects of both human and physical geography.

Companion encyclopedia of geography : the environment and humankind by edited by Ian Douglas, Richard Huggett, and Mike Robinson.
Call Number: Reference - [Ref] G116 .C645
Encyclopedia of geochemistry by edited by C.P. Marshall and R.W. Fairbridge
Call Number: Reference - [Ref] QE515 .E48
The Encyclopedia of structural geology and plate tectonics
Call Number: Reference - [Ref] QE601 .E53
McGraw-Hill dictionary of geology and mineralogy.
Call Number: Reference - [Ref] QE5 .M3654
A field guide to geology. Eastern North America by David C. Roberts ; illustrated by W. Grant Hodsdon.
Call Number: Reference - [Ref] QE78.3 .R62
Practical handbook of physical properties of rocks and minerals by edited by Robert S. Carmichael
Call Number: Wofford General Collection - QE431.6.P5 P73
Glossary of geology by Robert L. Bates and Julia A. Jackson, editors.
Call Number: Wofford General Collection - QE5 .B38