Title: Athena Mineralogy Provider: University of Geneva
Subject Heading/s: Mineralogy
LC Class: QE
Reference Category: Dictionaries
Description: Mineral names link to formulas, structure, geographical location, references, and pictures where applicable. Hosted by the Department of Mineralogy, University of Geneva.
Title: Encyclopedia of Earth Provider: Environmental Information Coalition
Subject Heading/s: Earth sciences--Encyclopedia
LC Class: QE5
Reference Category: Encyclopedias
Description: An "electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society." Can be searched by topic, author or keyword.
Added 10/2/07
Title: Geologic Time Machine Provider: Museum of Paleontology
Subject Heading/s: Geological time
LC Class: QE
Reference Category: Chronologies
Description: A time chart links to further descriptions of the era. Courtesy of The Museum of Paleontology at the Univeristy of California, Berkeley.
Title: Hazards Fact Sheets Provider: U.S. Geological Survey
Subject Heading/s: Natural disasters--United States
LC Class: QE
Reference Category: Handbooks
Description: Natural hazards (earthquakes, floods, landslides, volcanoes, etc. are discussed with specific U.S. examples.
Title: Mineralogy Database Provider: Mineralogy Database
Subject Heading/s: Mineralogy
LC Class: QE
Reference Category: Dictionaries
Description: "Alphabetical listings include synonyms of accepted mineral names, pronunciation of that name, name origins, and locality information." Data includes classifications, crystalography, optical and physical properties.
Title: Paleobotanical Collection Provider: Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta
Subject Heading/s: Paleobotany; Fossiles--Type specimens.
LC Class: QE
Reference Category: Catalogs
Description: " The University of Alberta is proud to be the home of the Paleobotany collection considered to be the best in Canada and one of the best in the world. Along with the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, the Paleobotany Collection at the University of Alberta is the official repository for fossil plants in Alberta."
A list of scientif names may be used for searching this database of fossil photographs.
Title: PALEOMAP Project Provider: PALEOMAP Project
Subject Heading/s: Plate tectonics; Continental drift
LC Class: QE
Reference Category: Handbooks
Description: "The goal of the PALEOMAP Project is to illustrate the plate tectonic development of the ocean basins and continents, as well as the changing distribution of land and sea during the past 1100 million years."
Title: Prehistoric Life Provider: Canadian Museum of Nature
Subject Heading/s: Paleontology
LC Class: QE
Reference Category: Guides
Description: Illustrations and descriptions of a number of species.
Title: USGS Publications Provider: U.S. Geological Survey
Subject Heading/s: Geology--Periodicals
LC Class: QE
Reference Category: Indexes
Description: Abstracts of articles published by U.S. Geological Survey, as a subset of the GeoRef database; 1880- ?