This interdisciplinary coverage makes it an ideal tool for researching environmental issues. The Federally recognized name of each feature described in the database is identified, and references are made to a feature's location by State, county, and geographic coordinates. Titles only GeoRef GeoRef is the major index to the international geological literature from 1785 to present. The database covers journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and a wide variety of publications from international, national and regional geological surveys and societies. Topics include all aspects of terrestrial and extraterrestrial geology, geochemistry, geophysics, mineralogy, petrology, economic geology, hydrology, oceanography, geomorphology, geoarchaeology, and engineering geology.
Abstracts are available for recent journal articles.
No password is needed if you use Standard Service only, which offers all the search features for the full database. Approximately 84 percent of the database's source publications are in English. Coverage is 1968-date, and it is updated weekly. This is a collection of scanned maps in GIF format from the University of Texas at Austin. The Central Intelligence Agency produced many of these maps.