Geology - Books and Journals

Books

The majority of geology books are located on Floor 5 of the Sir Duncan Rice Library. General geology textbooks may be found at the shelfmark 550. More specific shelfmarks are as follows:

Subject areaShelfmark

Geology, hydrology, meteorology

551

Petrology

552

Economic geology

553

Earth sciences of Europe

554

Earth sciences of Asia

555

Earth sciences of Africa

556

Earth sciences of North America

557

Earth sciences of South America

558

Earth sciences of other areas

559

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Journals

Print only Geology journals are shelved on Floor 2 of the Sir Duncan Rice Library at Per 550. All titles are 24 hour loan. Issues that are shelved in closed access stores can be requested via Primo or the library catalogue.

An abstracting journal is a special type of journal which does not contain full text articles-just the summaries (the abstracts). Many abstracting journals are also available as online databases. We hold the following geology abstracting journals at the shelfmark Abs 550. All titles are reference, for use in the library only.

Titlevolumesyears

Geological abstracts

 

1989-

Geological abstracts: geophysics & tectonics

 

1982-1988

Geophysical abstracts

 

1963-1971. 1977-1981

Mineralogical abstracts

4-42(4)

1929-91

We subscribe to a large number of full text e-journals in this subject area. An alphabetical list is available via Primo.