This guide provides information on several areas including geology, geoscience, geography, maps, earth and environmental sciences
Selected Earth & Environmental Sciences Reference Books
Encyclopedia of Geology
This five-volume reference work covers all aspects of geology including earth history, earth materials, surface processes, regional geology, economic geology, engineering geology, petroleum geology, geochemical and mineral exploration, and the history of geology.
Call Number: eBookPublication Date: 2005
Technical English for Geosciences by
This is a language learning tool for English for specific purposes. Texts are taken from various literature sources (from books, magazines, brochures, catalogues, websites, etc.). Topics are chosen from the vast field of geosciences. The book is designed as a text and workbook. In addition to texts, tables, graphs, students will find various exercises in 38 units. Units can be studied separately according to students’ interests. They are sorted by content, not language difficulty.
Call Number: eBookPublication Date: 2008
Environmental Geology: Handbook of Field Methods and Case Studies by
This handbook describes a broad spectrum of methods in the fields of remote sensing, geophysics, geology, hydrogeology, geochemistry, and microbiology designed to investigate landfill, mining and industrial sites.
Call Number: e-BookPublication Date: 2008
Springer Handbook of Geographic Information by
The handbook is subdivided into
three parts: Basics and Computer
Science, Geographic Information,
and Applications, and last
but not least metadata.
Call Number: e-BookPublication Date: 2012
Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science by
This multidisciplinary edition extensively covers the environmental changes, which have occurred during the Quaternary Period, spanning approximately the past 2.6 million years in geologic time. It involves both climate and environmental change as our own species spread across the planet.
Call Number: e-BookPublication Date: 2013
How To Navigate This Research Guide
This guide is organized by blue tabs that run across the top of each page. Below is a description of the principle tabs on this guide.
- Background Information - These tools will help you find information about your research topic.
- Databases - Research databases to search for journal articles, as well as numeric and data sources
- Agencies, Societies, & Surveys - Links to agencies, societies and surveys that are relevant to the field of EES
- Field Trip Guidebooks - Field trip guidebooks provide geologic information for a particular area. They are stop-by-stop guides containing detailed information and usually contain maps, photographs and illustrations not typically found in other resources.
- Maps - The Map Collection is located on the 4th floor of the Science & Engineering Library, and includes approximately 242,000 paper maps and aerial photos.
- Open Educational Resources - open access resources for the geosciences
- Off-Campus Access - How to access electronic resources remotely
Field Trip to Pound Gap, Kentucky
Science Daily Paleontology News
Loading ...
Engineering and Interim Earth & Environmental Sciences Librarian
Susan K Smith
Contact:
Science & Engineering Library
Office: 310G
M.I. King Bldg. - South
179 Funkhouser Drive
Office: 310G
M.I. King Bldg. - South
179 Funkhouser Drive
257-7176
Website
Subjects: Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering