Links to Resources such as Geology books, Glossaries, Libraries, Magazines, Journals, Tools
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American Petroleum Institute, includes API position papers and API-developed industry standards
Annals of Improbable Research: Here you will discover many interesting thoughts about science.
Arizona Highways Magazine online
Ask Jeeves is the fastest and easiest way to find answers to questions. It allows you to ask a question in plain English and, after interacting with you to confirm the question, it takes you to one and only one web site that answers your question.
BOOKS:
ABooksearch.com - an Online Community of Old, Rare and Out-of-Print Booksellers.
Academic Press-Geosciences
Albatross Specialty Bookstores focuses on titles relating to nature, the environment, as well as gourmet teas, coffees, and ethnic music.
Blackwell Science Ltd On these pages you can find full listings of all Blackwell Science's Products within the area of Earth Science plus much more, including news from the geological world. The European Union of Geosciences journal, Terra Nova is available online on a subscription bases. Individual articles will also be available for purchase.
Search for out-of-print and hard-to-find titles Hundreds of booksellers feed their catalogs into this conduit, which you can search for free. When you find something of interest, just click the link and you�ll be zapped directly to the bookseller. More than 1.5 million books are currently available covering the US and UK markets.
The Big Link, a service of BookSearch Inc sniffs out rare and out-of-print books. They inspect found items, places them in archival-quality protective jackets, wraps them and mails them to you with a packing slip.
A clearinghouse for bibliophiles selling and searching for books by letting them place details of their titles online. Others can search the database.
Geological Society of London bookshop
Half Price Books carries used books in many categories. Its selection of geology books is completely by chance. Check out the site and look for what you want. You might get lucky. Also, this home page provides links to Sierra Club, US Government Recycling Hotline, Greenpeace International home page, and a link to Additional Environmental web sites. The site also has a simple feature called This Month in History.
Geoscience Books provides used and out of print geology books
Mt. Eden Books and Bindery has used/rare/out of print geology books.
W.H. Freeman Publishers
Bibliofind More than 20 million used and rare books, periodicals and ephemera offered for sale by thousands of booksellers around the world make this an interesting book-selling site.
CONVERSIONS - ENGLISH to METRIC; METRIC to ENGLISH . Here are a couple of sites out of the kazillion that appear to be available:
http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/conversions.html
http://www.computec-int.com/convert.htm
Environmental Protection Agency�s (EPA) National Center for Environmental Publications and Information site. Use the key words to search for titles, for example, �Underground Injection�
Geologic Resources: This web site, which goes by the same name, provides many professional resources for practicing geologists including software, products, free resources, message boards, and job networking. A special chat area facilitates discussion on real work-related issues such as engineering geology, environmental assessments, aquifer testing, bioremediation, tunneling and blasting and more.
Glossary of Geologic Terms
Glosario Estratigr�phico�glossary of stratigraphic terms. The terms are in Spanish and English, but the definitions are in Spanish.
Glossary of Sequence Stratigraphy -- Not really a glossary, but rather a list of terms translated from English to Spanish. This site is courtesy of Petr�leos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), the national petroleum company of Venezuela. You can also reference the same list but Spanish to English.
