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Geology &
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Nomenclature, Acronyms
& Terminology

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Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences/Geology Librarian

Jennifer Groff
404 Cooper Library
jgroff@clemson.edu (864) 656-4782
AIM: CULibJen

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More Geology & Earth Sciences Resources


Nomenclature:

Divisions of Geologic Time--Major Chronostratigraphic and Geochronologic Units   Fact sheet on revisions in naming geologic time scales, from the US Geological Survey (USGS) Geologic Names Committee (PDF File, 2007)

GEOLEX
(Geologic Names Lexicon)
 

Search tool for lithologic and geochronologic unit names, from the USGS


Geographic Names Information System
(GNIS)
 

Developed by USGS as the federal standard for geographic nomenclature. GNIS is the repository of domestic geographic names data; it contains information about physical and cultural geographic features of all types in the United States, associated areas, and Antarctica, current and historical, but not including roads and highways.


GEOnet Names Server
(GNS)
  Provides access to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names' (US BGN) database of foreign geographic feature names. The database is the official repository of foreign place-name decisions approved by the US BGN.


Acronyms:

The Acronyms Database   Enter chemistry-related acronyms and retrieve lists of matching descriptions. Includes references to >250 acronyms relating to the environment.

CAS Standard Abbreviations and Acronyms
(American Chemical Society)
  Guide to abbreviations and acronyms used in Chemical Abstracts (SciFinder Scholar)


Terminology:

IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology (Gold Book)   Collection of nearly 7000 terms with authoritative definitions spanning the whole range of chemistry and math/physics.

 

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