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.
GeoRef is produced by the American Geological Institute, and the Web-based interface is developed by the Community of Science. This WWW page describes how to use Gmelin at Dartmouth College. The Beilstein CrossFire Commander software must be downloaded to your workstation to use it. Kresge Library has a workstation setup with the software. Gmelin is a dataset containing structure, property, reaction, and bibliographic information for over one million inorganic and organometallic compounds, including coordination compounds, glasses, ceramics, and mineral alloys.