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Geologic Guidebooks of North America
This database contains references (but not full text) to ~12,000 geologic field trip guidebooks of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. To locate a print copy search 1) our Library Catalog, then 2) WorldCat. (AGI)
Geologic Field Trip Guidebooks Web Archive
This project aims to preserve web-based geoscience field trip guidebooks — which document local geologic information and are often ephemeral, and only available for a short time — found in the Geologic Guidebooks of North America Database.
GSA Field Guides
Archive of GSA guides since 1999. (GeoscienceWorld)
Continuing Guidebook Series from Societies and Associations
Geoscience Information Society (GSIS)

The Walter Library holds many print field guides in its collection. Search the Library Catalog by keyword and location to find them.

Selected Virtual Guides

AUSTIN

UT Austin: Walking the Forty Acres: Building Stones - Precambrian to Pleistocene
UT Austin: Walking the Forty Acres: Waller Creek Wilderness Trails and Adjuncts
Austin Geological Society Guidebooks
Most AGS Guidebooks are available for purchase at the BEG bookstore and some can be found online in the Virtual Landscapes of Texas.

TEXAS

The Balcones Escarpment (1986)
Big Bend National Park (1986, Texas A&M)
Coal Geology of the Paleocene-Eocene Calvert Bluff Formation (Wilcox Group) and the Eocene Manning Formation (Jackson Group) in east-central Texas (1995)
U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-595
El Paso, Texas - Carlsbad, New Mexico Geologic Road Log (2000, NMT)
Geologic Wonders of Texas (BEG)
Stone City Member (2015, Houston Geological Society)
Structural geology and landforms of Dallas County (UNT)
Tertiary Coals in South Texas
Anomalous Cannel-Like Coals of Webb County (Claiborne Group, Eocene) and Lignites of Atascosa County (Jackson Group, Eocene) - Geologic Setting, Character, Source-rock and Coal-bed Methane Potential. USGS, 1999

NEW MEXICO

Guidebook to the Geology of Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona (a.k.a. Meteor Crater) 2nd edition
California Geotour: An Index to Online Geologic Field Trip Guides of California
Index of web pages of geologic field trip guides and related web sites compiled by the California Geological Survey (CGS)
CA: Peninsula Geological Society Field Trips
Geology of California's Golden Gate
Colorado Geological Survey POGI Map and Field Trips
Utah Geologic Guides
Building Stones of Downtown Salt Lake City
Montana-Yellowstone Geologic Field Guide Database
Northwest Geology Field Trips
Alaska - Skull Cliff - Pleistocene Gubik Formation
Hawaii Volcanoes - Geological Features
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Virtual Field Trip: Oahu, Big Island, Maui, Kaho'olawe, Moloka'i, Kaua'i
Very dated.
Big Island (Ellin Beltz)
Nebraska to Lake Superior: 1999 field trip (UN Omaha)

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