Earth Science Pathfinder
This guide has been prepared for students of Earth Science at Madonna University.  For more information, or for help using these resources, please contact one of our librarians.

Recommended Databases
Journals
Books
Websites

Recommended Databases

ProQuest
Academic OneFile
Applied Science Full Text
InfoTrac General Science Collection
Today's Science
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Access Science
Oxford Journals

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Journals
This list is not exhaustive, but represents the more commonly cited journals in the field.  To locate more, browse by subject in our Full Text E-Journal locator.  (Journals with a * are available electronically.)

• Contributions to mineralogy and petrology*
• Journal of petrology*
• Journal of the Geological Society*
• Rocks & minerals*
• Atlantic geology*
• Bulletin of marine science*
• Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society*
• Journal of atmospheric and oceanic technology*
• Journal of oceanography*
• Marine biology*
• Ocean science*
• Mineralogical record*
• Mineralogy and petrology*
• Annual review of ecology and systematics*
• Conservation ecology*
• Ecology and society*
• Environmental toxicology and chemistry*
• Natural resources journal*
• Atmospheric chemistry and physics*
• Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society*
• Climatic change*
• Journal of applied meteorology and climatology*
• Journal of atmospheric and oceanic technology*
• Journal of the atmospheric sciences*
• Meteorology and atmospheric physics*
• Storm data*
• Theoretical and applied climatology*

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Books
The library collection maintains few volumes on earth science; additional materials may be obtained via interlibrary loan.

• The magic of minerals / 110 color photographs by Olaf Medenbach ; text by Harry Wilk : translation by John Sampson White. Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, c1986. QE363.2 .M4313 1986
• The illustrated encyclopedia of minerals & rocks / by J. Kourimsky ; photographs by F. Tvrz ; edited by Randolph Lucas ; [translated from the Czech by Vera Gissing]. Secaucus, N.J. : Chartwell Books, Inc., 1993, c1977. QE363.2 .K6813 1993
• Earthquakes / Bruce A. Bolt. New York : W.H. Freeman, c1993. QE534.2 .B64 1993
• Active tectonics : earthquakes, uplift, and landscape / Edward A. Keller, Nicholas Pinter. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1996. QE511.4 .K45 1996
• Plates : restless earth / by Roy A. Gallant. New York : Benchmark Books, c2003. QE511.4 .G355 2003
• Volcanoes and earthquakes / Jon Erickson. Blue Ridge Summit, PA : TAB Books, c1988. QE521 .E75 1988
• Earth shock : hurricanes, volcanoes, earthquakes, tornadoes and other forces of nature / Andrew Robinson. New York : Thames and Hudson, 1993. GB5014 .R62 1993
• Out of the crater : chronicles of a volcanologist / Richard V. Fisher. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2000, c1999. QE22.F44 A3 2000
• The changing atmosphere : a global challenge / John Firor. New Haven : Yale University Press, c1990. QC861.2 .F57 1990
• Physics of the space environment / Tamas I. Gombosi. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998. Cambridge atmospheric and space science series. QC861.2 .G64 1998
• Atmospheric processes and systems / Russell D. Thompson. London ; New York : Routledge, 1998. QC861.2 .T46 1998
• Environmental physics / Egbert Boeker and Rienk van Grondelle. Chichester [England] ; New York : Wiley, c1995. GE105 .B64 1995
• World climatic systems / John G. Lockwood. London ; Baltimore, Md., U.S.A. : E. Arnold, 1985. QC981 .L626 1985
• Dynamic climatology : basis in mathematics and physics / John N. Rayner. Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2001. QC863 .R35 2001
• The invisible universe : probing the frontiers of astrophysics / George B. Field, Eric J. Chaisson ; astronomical images and descriptions by Thomas P. Stephenson. New York : Vintage Books, 1987, c1985. QB43.2 .F54 1987
• The astronomer's universe : stars, galaxies, and cosmos / Herbert Friedman. New York : W.W. Norton, c1990. QB351 .F69 1990
• Dynamic astronomy / Robert T. Dixon. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1992. QB43.2 .D58 1992
• Modern theories of the universe : from Herschel to Hubble / Michael J. Crowe. New York : Dover Publications, c1994. QB43.2 .C76 1994
• Unfolding our universe / Iain Nicolson ; original illustrations by Mark McLellan. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999. QB43.2 .N53 1999
• Introductory astronomy / Keith Holliday. Chichester ; New York : Wiley, c1999. QB43.2 .H65 1999
• Impossible extinction : natural catastrophes and the supremacy of the microbial world / Charles S. Cockell. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003. QR100 .C63 2003

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Websites

Earth Science World
Educational Earth Science Links--North Carolina State University
Earth Science Lesson Plan Library
American Geological Institute
Geoscience Information Society
Geological Society of America
U.S. Geological Survey
Education Index -- Handpicked Geology Links
National Earthquake Information Center
World-Wide Earthquake Locator
Volcanoes.com -- for volcano news and photos
Cascades Volcano Observatory (USGS)
AGU Seismology
National Geographic - Our Solar System
Oceanography--Office of Naval Research
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -- Ocean
WorldClimate Weather Data
El Niño Theme Page
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -- Weather
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
National Geographic Environment
Earthquake Resources for Kindergarten and Elementary School

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