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This Subject Guide contains links to a few key indexes in Geology plus significant online resources and print materials housed in Swem Library’s first floor reference section or the branch libraries. Web Resources below contains links to sites with substantial academic content. These may assist you on research papers and other class assignments as well as lead to additional useful sites. Look at the
Library's Databases for many other valuable scholarly databases in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. For more web resources, try a
Google Scholar search with appropriate keywords for your specific needs.
Liaison
Liaison in charge: Karen Berquist
Research: Getting Started @ Swem
Database/Article Indexes
Print Resources
Background Information
Maps
Bibliographies
Web Resources
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Geographic Names Information Server
Official national repository of domestic names information developed by the USGS in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN). The databasecontains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States and includes the federally recognized name as well as historical and regional variants of each feature described in the data base is identified and references to a feature's location by State, county, and geographic coordinates.
- United States Geological Survey
National Mapping Agency
- National Geologic Map Database
- Association of State Geologists
Index to publications and products of the individual state surveys.
- Geology of Virginia
Geologic and hydrologic information for the five provinces of Virginia; teaching resources; maps. Site designed and maintained by members of the Geology Department of the College of William & Mary.
- GeoLex
U.S. Geological search tool for lithologic and geochronologic unit names
- TerraServer and TopoZone
Search these sites by place name for topographic maps in a variety of scales.
