2008* Earth Sciences and related Information Resources 'Core' or Essential Reference Tool (Geology, Meteorology, Volcanology, etc.) Results

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  1. CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Dictionary of Organic Compounds, Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
  2. Encyclopedia of Earth System Science
  3. Geographical Dictionary- Merriam Webster, Glossary of Geology- AGI, Lexicon of Geologic Names of the United States
  4. Manual of Mineralogy
  5. Moffatt- Map Index to Topographic Quadrangles

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  1. Google  http://www.google.com and Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com/
  2. Chem Informatics (was Chemweb – http://www.chemweb.org) now http://www.cheminformatics.org/, WebElements-Periodic Table on the Web - http://www.webelements.com
  3. Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology - http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/

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  1. National Institute of Standards and Technology/(NIST) Chemistry Webbook - http://www.nist.gov or http://webbook.nist.gov
  2. U. S. Geological Survey - http://www.usgs.gov
  3. ChemIDplus Advance - http://chem.sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemidplus/
  4. Science.gov - http://www.science.gov/
  5. National Weather Service – http://www.weather.gov/

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  1. GeoRef - http://www.agiweb.org/georef/index.html
  2. Chemical Abstracts - http://www.cas.org/
  3. Geobase - http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bibliographicdatabasedescription.cws_home/422597/description#description
  4. Web of Science - http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/scientific/Web_of_Science
  5. GeoScienceWorld - http://www.geoscienceworld.org/, Scopus - http://www.scopus.com/scopus/home.url, Water Resources Abstracts - http://www.csa.com/factsheets/water-resources-set-c.php, data files from NOAA

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