- Environment Complete: Full-text content on physical sciences, including geology.
- Films on Demand:
- Earth Science includes geology, oceanography, weather, & climate.
- Science and Technology Collection: Articles from over 800 scientific and technical journals, and more.
RPCC Library Online Resources
Where to Look!
Find books shelved in these call numbers:
- QE 1 to QE 996.5 – Geology.
- QE 1 to QE 350.62 – General, including geographical divisions.
- QE 351 to QE 399.2 – Mineralogy.
- QE 500 to QE 639.5 – Dynamic and structural geology.
- QE 521 to QE 545 – Volcanoes and earthquakes.
- QE 601 to QE 613.5 – Structural geology.
Online Resources
- Alex Strekeisen: includes high-resolution images and details on rocks and minerals.
- Geology.com: "Geology and Earth Science News and Information," including articles, maps, images, and more.
- Geology: National Park Service: "explore the world's most magnificent rock collection—your National Parks."
- Geoscience Online Learning Initiative from the American Geosciences Institute offers free online short courses in geology and related topics.
- Macrostrat: "A platform for geological data exploration, integration, and analysis." Includes a link to the ROCKD Mobile app.
- mindat.org: "The world's largest open database of minerals, rocks, meteorites and the localities they come from."
- PaleoMap Project: Travel through time and check out what Earth looked like in the distant past, and what it might look like in the distant future!
- USGS Science Explorer: Geology offers multiple resources including multimedia content.
- Virtual Microscope: Discover our Earth's and extraterrestrial rock collections -- the building blocks of planets.