General Purpose

To support instruction, study and research leading to the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. levels in Geology.

The program emphasizes the following subject areas: economic geology, environmental geology, remote sensing, lunar/planetary geology, Quaternary geology, structural geology, geophysics, geochemistry, stratigraphy, petrology, mineralogy, sedimentology, tectonics, hydrogeology, paleontology, geomorphology, and paleoecology.

Earth and Planetary Sciences overlaps with some of the subjects in the following departments: Geography, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Microbiology, Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Science, Anthropology, and Plant and Soil Sciences.

English is the primary language of the collection. Secondary languages include Western European languages, Chinese, Japanese and Russian, which are acquired selectively depending on research and project needs.

Publications from all countries and nations are collected.

Primary emphasis is on current research.

Current publications are primarily collected.

Older materials are purchased to update the collection in primary areas of research and instruction or to provide basic materials for new programs.

With the exception of textbooks, laboratory manuals and non-local dissertations, scholarly publications of all types are collected.

Print formats are primarily collected; alternative formats, including electronic media, are added selectively.

Cooperative agreements are in effect with Vanderbilt University and the University of Kentucky.

Interlibrary loan and document delivery are sources of materials not in the UT collection.

Librarian, Gayle Baker.

GEOS (Geological Sciences)

Cooperation with the Geography and Map Librarian should be taken into consideration.