University of Texas Libraries
Full Text Resources, Collection Guides, and Maps
Full Text Resources:
Aquifers of Texas. by John B. Ashworth and Janie Hopkins
Balcones Escarpment. by Patrick L. Abbott and C. M.
Woodruff
A guide to the geologic setting, flood problems, ecology,
natural history, archeology, and land use problems of the
Balcones Escarpment and adjacent areas.
Bedrock geology of Round Rock and the Surrounding Areas. Williamson and Travis Counties, Texas by Todd B. Housh.
A PDF of this is made available online with the author's permission.
Dumble Survey is now available through Virtual Landscapes of Texas. Full text publications of the Texas Geological Survey from 1887 until 1894. All of these rare, fragile, and hard-to-find materials are now digitized and online.
Guidebook to the Geology of Travis County. The full text of this 1977 guidebook.
OnTrack. The Newsletter of the International Fission-Track Community.
Petrology of
Sedimentary Rocks. by Robert L. Folk
This out-of-print classic is published on the Web with the
permission of the author.
Virtual Landscapes of Texas. Rare and antique public domain documents covering various topics about the landscape of Texas. These digitized documents made available through the combined efforts of the Texas State Libraries, the University of Texas Libraries, and the Walter Family Fund through the Geology Foundation.
Walking the Forty Acres : Building Stones Precambrian to Pleistocene. by S.P. Ellison and Joseph J. Jones
Walking the Forty Acres : Waller Creek Wilderness Trails and Adjuncts. by S.P. Ellison, Joseph J. Jones, and Keith Young
Additional online resources:
Scirus is a science-specific search engine accessible to the public.
Virtual Field Trip Guides: United States and Canada.
For University of Texas faculty, students, staff, the Databases: Geological Sciences page provides pertinent geoscience online resources.
Collection Guides:
Collection Guides direct patrons primarily towards material in the Walter Geology Library. However, these subject area compilations include books, field guides, maps, theses, dissertations, internet resources, and other reference sources.
- Austin: The Lay of the Land. Austin and Travis County, Texas.
- Big Bend. Big Bend and Trans-Pecos area.
- Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG): Publication Guide.
- Decade of North American Geology (D-NAG). Series established by the Geological Society of America.
- Edwards Aquifer, Central Texas.
- Gems and Gemology. Resources to assist students in GEO 347K Gem and Gem Minerals.
- Geosciences Reference Sources.
- Llano Uplift, Central Texas.
- Self-Presentation in the Sciences. Style guides to geoscientific and technical writing. Citing and evaluating electronic sources. Professional and résumé guides.
- Texas Coastal Zone.
- Texas Floods : Sources. Agencies and agency publications, theses, and monographs that provide Texas flood data. Includes some climatology material.
- Texas Soil Surveys
- Texas Water : Sources.
- Trans-Pecos Texas Geology Resources.
- United States Geological Survey (USGS) Publication Guide
Maps:
Bureau of Economic Geology : Maps of Texas. This is a small sampling from the 46,000+ maps available in the Map Room of the Geology Library
Geologic Atlas of Texas - 1:250,000 Scanned Sheets. Texas Water Development Board.
Geological Atlas of the United States of America is "a set of 227 folios published by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1894 and 1945. Each folio includes both topographic and geologic maps for each quad represented in that folio, as well as description of the basic and economic geology of the area."
Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection.
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