ENVS 125: Environmental Geology

Reference books are helpful starting places if you need:

1. An overview of topic, person, place, or event.
2. To browse for topic ideas.
3. Help with focusing or narrowing your topic.
4. A list of core resources for your topic. Many reference books provide a short bibliography and/or suggested scholarly readings. These readings usually represent the best scholarship for the topic at hand up to the time the reference work was published.

Some reference sources specific to environmental and earth science:

• Dictionary of Environment and Conservation
• The Encyclopedia of Earth
• Encyclopedia of Earthquakes and Volcanoes
• Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management
• Encyclopedia of Global Change
• Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards
• Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene
• Encyclopedia of Volcanoes
• Field Guide to Rivers of North America
• Guide to Global Hazards
• Guide to the Oceans
• Oxford Companion to Global Change
• Oxford Companion to the Earth 

See also these general science reference sources:

• Dictionary of Environmental Science and Technology
• Illustrated Dictionary of Science