The primary research collections
of the Walter Geology Library presently include more than 120,000
book and journal volumes and 47,000 geologic maps, among them the
publications of the U.S. Geological Survey, most state geological
surveys, and those of many foreign countries. Regional emphasis
of the collection is on the Southwestern United States, Texas,
and Mexico. Subject emphases are sedimentology, stratigraphy,
tectonics, structural, economic, marine, and petroleum geology,
petrology, paleontology, mineralogy, geochemistry, geophysics,
and groundwater hydrology. In addition to state funding, the
Walter Library benefits from several
endowment funds maintained by the Geology Foundation in the
Department of Geological
Sciences.
The library is on the 4th floor of the Jackson Geosciences Building on the UT
Austin main campus.
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