The Geological Society of America is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the geosciences. SJSU Library subscribes to some of the journals available on the website.
The World Book Online Reference Center (now called World Book Student), includes the articles of the World Book Encyclopedia, a Biography Center, dictionary, atlas, an extensive multimedia collection, thousands of editor-selected Web sites, correlations to curriculum standards, and much more.
This dictionary of earth sciences has been revised and updated and contains over 6000 entries, including planetary science, remote sensing, statistics, and sequence stratigraphy, and substantial updating in paleontology, mineralogy, and geophysics.
Geology Reference Materials
Dictionaries and encyclopedias that might be helpful while exploring your topic: