Mineralogy, petrology and geochemistry

For journal articles, see major geological databases or those covering mineralogy, petrology or geochemistry.

Web gateways include:

Links for mineralogists, University of Würzburg
Mineralogical Society of America
Geochemical Society
Geochemistry on the World Wide Web, Cornell University

Mineral and rock collection catalogues, data collections, dictionaries, encyclopaedias and handbooks contain mineral and rock images and properties, and geochemical data:

EarthRef, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, including several databases of petrologic and geochemical data
GEOROC, Max Planck Institut fur Chemie, Mainz - geochemistry of rocks of the oceans and continents
PETDB, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University - petrological database of the ocean floor
Geokem: an eText of Geochemical Data Interpretation, B.M Gunn - geochemistry of igneous rocks worldwide
American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database - includes every structure published in American Mineralogist and Canadian Mineralogist, some structures in the European Journal of Mineralogy.
Athena Mineralogy, Université de Genève
Atlas of igneous and metamorphic rocks, minerals and textures, University of North Carolina
Atlas of sedimentary rocks, Korea - images of sedimentary rocks and structures
Common ground database, Colorado School of Mines
Mindat.org - mineral properties, images and localities worldwide
The Image Mineral Gallery
Clausthal Mineral Collection
Ecole des mines de Paris, Musée de minéralogie
Analytical methods, GEMOC Geochemical Analysis Unit
Mineralogy Database
French Association of Micromineralogy including listings of new mineral species and their properties, and a database of Raman spectra of minerals
Igneous rocks tour, California State University at Long Beach
Bancroft Mineral collection, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Encyclopedia of mineralogy. Ed. Keith Frye. Hutchinson Ross Pub. Co., c1981. Encyclopedia of earth sciences ; vol 4b
Reference collection 550.3 E56 4b
Encyclopedia of minerals. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold, c1990.
Reference collection 549.03 R648e.2
Glossary of mineral species. Michael Fleischer. 4th ed. Mineralogical Record, c1983.
Reference collection 549.03 F596.4
Hey's mineral index : mineral species, varieties, and synonyms. A.M. Clark. Chapman & Hall, c1993.
Reference collection 549.012 H61i.C
Mineral tables : hand-specimen properties of 1500 minerals.McGraw-Hill, 1969.
Reference collection 549 D566
Manual of mineralogy (after James D. Dana).Cornelis Klein. 20th ed. Wiley, c1985.
Main Collection 549 D168.20
Atlas of ore minerals. P. Picot. Elsevier, 1982.
Reference collection 553.4 P598a.E
Where to find Australian minerals. Douglas M. Stone. 2nd ed. Periwinkle Books, 1977.
Reference collection 622.10994 S877w
A Manual of new mineral names, 1892-1978. Peter G. Embrey. Oxford University Press, 1980.
Reference collection 549.03 M294
Tables for microscopic identification of ore minerals. W. Uytenbogaardt. 2nd rev. ed. Dover, 1985, c1971.
Main Collection 549 U98.2.D
World directory of mineral collections. 2nd ed. 1977.
Reference collection 549.074 I61w
World directory of mineralogists. 3rd ed. 1985.
Reference collection 549.025 C421w
Calculated X-ray powder patterns for silicate minerals. 1969. Geological Society of America Memoir, 122.
Main collection 550.6 G17me 122
X-ray powder data for ore minerals: the Peacock atlas. 1962. Geological Society of America Memoir, 85.
Main collection 550.6 G17me 85
A field guide to Australian rocks, minerals and gemstones. Wolf Mayer. Rigby, 1976
Reference collection and Main collection 549.9 M468f
An introduction to the rock-forming minerals. W.A. Deer. 2nd ed. Longman Scientific, 1992
Reference collection 549 D31.2
Dictionary of rocks. Richard Scott Mitchell Van Nostrand Reinhold, c1985.
Reference collection 552.003 M682d
Dictionary of petrology. S.I. Tomkeieff. Wiley, c1983
Reference collection 552.03 T658d
Handbook of physical properties of rocks. Robert S. Carmichael. CRC Press, 1982-1984.
Reference collection 552.061 H236
Practical handbook of physical properties of rocks and minerals. Ed Robert S. Carmichael. CRC Press, c1989
Reference collection 552.0212 C287p
Atlas of igneous rocks and their textures.W.S. MacKenzie. Wiley, 1982.
Main collection 552.1 M157a
Handbook of geochemistry. Springer, 1969-78. 6 vols.
Main collection 551.9 W391
Geochemical thermodynamics. 2nd ed. 1994.
Main collection 551.9
Geochemical tables. H.J. Rosler. Elsevier, 1972.
Reference collection 551.9 R718
Handbook of environmental isotope geochemistry. Elsevier, 1980-1989. 3 vols.
Main collection 551.9 H236
Exploration geochemistry bibliography to January 1981. 1982.
Reference collection 622.13016 H392 1982