Field Trip Guidebooks
Field trip guidebooks typically describes the geology of a particular area visited by attendees of a geological society meeting. They can be good sources of information about a particular regions geologic setting. Use these sources to find field trip guidebooks for your location of interest.
- GeoRef This link opens in a new windowOver 2 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.
Covers: 1785 - present
In Georef, combine the name of the location or geologic feature you're interested in AND the term guidebook (ex New York AND Guidebook AND Black River Group).
- Geologic Guidebooks of North America DatabaseThis is simply an index and does not contatin full text of guidebooks. Check the titles you find in Penfield's catalog, a web browser, or use ILL to get the full text. See the General Search Help link for tips on search strategy.
- Geologic Field Trip Guidebooks Web ArchiveThis archive aims to preserve web-based geoscience field trip guidebooks found in the Geologic Guidebooks of North America Database for researchers and scholars within the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation and beyond.
- New York State Geological Association Field Trip Guidebook ArchiveThese guidebooks can also be found on the 3rd floor using the following call numbers: QE 1 .N5 (1957-1999) and QE 145 .N47 (2000-2011).
- WorldCatWorldCat is a database of library holdings from across North America and overseas. Use similar search strategy recommended for GeoRef.
- Geology Underfoot and Roadside Geology SeriesThese are book series that describe the geology of particular states or regions of interest (e.g. national parks). Search in the library's book catalog or the phrases "Geology Underfoot" or "Roadside Geology" along with the name of the state or region you are interested in.
