Notes
Includes content from earlier print publications: Record of North American geology, -1891; Bibliography and index of North American geology, paleontology, petrology, and mineralogy, -1905; Geologic literature on North America, -1918; Bibliography of North American geology, -1970; Bibliography and index of geology exclusive of North America, -1968; Geophysical abstracts (Washington, D.C.), -1971; and Bibliography and index of geology, -2005.
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Summary
Produced by the American Geosciences Institute, GeoRef contains citations and abstracts to journals in multiple languages as well as new books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses. Covers the geology of North America from 1666 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. The database includes references to all publications of the USGS, as well as master's theses and doctoral dissertations from North American universities. 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.