The database covers journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and a wide variety of publications from international, national and regional geological surveys and societies. GeoRef has excellent coverage of regional geology. 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.
GeoRef is produced by the American Geological Institute , and the Web-based interface is developed by the Community of Science . You can find papers by author, keywords from the title and abstract, geographic location, and subject descriptors. To locate proper forms of geographic, stratigraphic, formation, and other types of subject terms, use the GeoRef Thesaurus , Phys-Sci Ref. GeoRef is also available as a remotely accessible online database through the library online search services. To search GeoRef and related files fill out an Online Search Request Form through the Web or at the Kresge Physical Sciences Library reference desk.