New! The Bedrock geology of Round Rock and the Surrounding Areas, Williamson and Travis Counties, Texas by Todd B. housh.
A PDF of this is made available online with the author's permission.
The Dumble Survey, Full text publications of the Texas Geological Survey from 1887 until 1894. All of these rare, fragile, and hard-to-find materials are now digitized and online.
Virtual Landscapes of Texas, Rare and antique public domain documents covering various topics about the landscape of Texas. These digitized documents made available through the combined efforts of the Texas State Libraries, the University of Texas Libraries, and the Walter Family Fund through the Geology Foundation.
The
Balcones Escarpment, by Patrick L. Abbott and C. M.
Woodruff
A guide to the geologic setting, flood problems, ecology,
natural history, archeology, and land use problems of the
Balcones Escarpment and adjacent areas.
The Petrology of
Sedimentary Rocks, by Robert L. Folk
This out-of-print classic is published on the Web with the
permission of the author.
Aquifers of Texas, by John B. Ashworth and Janie Hopkins
Walking the Forty Acres : Building Stones Precambrian to Pleistocene, by S.P. Ellison and Joseph J. Jones
Walking the Forty Acres : Waller Creek Wilderness Trails and Adjuncts, by S.P. Ellison, Joseph J. Jones, and Keith Young
The Guidebook to the Geology of Travis County. The full text of this 1977 guidebook.
Online field trip guidebooks on the Web.
Online Journals available from the University of Texas Libraries (science and technology strongly represented). Most are restricted to UT users, some can be used by everyone.
OnTrack: The Newsletter of the International Fission-Track Community.
Geology Library users may find the following Collection Guides helpful:
In addition, the geological and related indexes available from the University of Texas Libraries may be helpful to many users. Some of these indexes, like GeoRef, are web-accessible only to UT students, faculty, and staff; some can be used by everyone.
A small online sampling from the 46,000+ maps available in the Map Room of the Geology Library
Geological Atlas of the United States of America. Texas A & M University has digitized this book, and each folio can be viewed through the interactive map.
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