UWM Libraries Research and Course Guides: Geological Sciences: Books

E-Book Collections

Ebook Central (formerly Ebrary)
A collection of thousands of online full text books and other materials in a variety of subject areas. The Libraries have subscribed to the Academic Complete collection as well as purchased access to selected individual titles.
Knovel
Knovel is a collection of over 4500 handbooks, dictionaries and proceedings in technical disciplines. Full text is searchable by keywords and numeric property values. Contains interactive tables, graphs, and equations. Data from tables can be manipulated and further imported in an Excel spreadsheet.
Wiley Online Library
Wiley Online Library hosts a multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It provides integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1,500 journals, online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases. Full text access is limited to subscribed or purchased titles.

Reference Resources

CRC handbook of chemistry and physics
A basic reference source for chemical and physical data. Material is updated and revised in each annual. Sections include basic constants, units conversion factors and mathematical tables, chemical and physics terminology, organic and inorganic compounds, biochemistry, analytical chemistry, properties of atoms, particles, solids, fluids, polymers, and sections on geophysics, astronomy, and laboratory safety.
Glossary of Geology by Klaus Neuendorf, James Mehl, Julia Jackson (Editors)
Call Number: Online via Knovel
ISBN: 9780922152896
Publication Date: 2011
A Dictionary of Earth Sciences by Michael Allaby (Editor)
Call Number: online via Knovel
ISBN: 9780199211944
Publication Date: 2008-04-07
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Hydrogeology by D. J. Poehls (Editor); Gregory J. Smith (Editor)
Call Number: online via Knovel
ISBN: 0125586906
Publication Date: 2009-03-05
Encyclopedia of Geology, 5 vols by Robin Cocks (Editor); Ian Plimer (Editor); Richard C. Selley (Editor)
Call Number: online via Knovel
ISBN: 0126363803
Publication Date: 2004-12-16

Obtaining Books

For books that are not owned by the UWM Libraries, use one of the following services:

Search@UW Books & Media (UW System)
Interlibrary Loan

Requesting items from other libraries

Browsing Geology

Browse the Libraries' stacks literally or virtually using the online catalog.

These are call numbers ranges in Geology QE1-996

QE1-350.62      General
QE351-399.2    Mineralogy
QE420-499      Petrology
QE500-639.5    Dynamic and structural geology
QE521-545       Volcanoes and earthquakes
QE601-613.5    Structural geology
QE640-699       Stratigraphy
QE701-760       Paleontology
QE760.8-899.2 Paleozoology
QE901-996.5    Paleobotany

For call numbers in all subject areas, click here.