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Geology Help Pages

Teaching fellow Jennifer Lindline (center)helps students visualize geologic structures at field camp in Montana

help with library research Electronic science journals available through the Collier Library website How to use GEOREF for bibliographic searches Short cut to Tripod, the Tri-College Library Catalog help with writing Hints for writing scientific papers Suggestions on organization and style for scientific papers Formatting guidelines for bibliographies in geoscience papers Some more guidelines for citing electronic sources, such as web pages help with quantitative problem solving Problem solving tips from a Chemistry Prof, useful to anyone. Common units of measurement and abbreviations Unit conversions Exponents, powers of ten, orders of magnitude Logarithms and e Algebra and trigonometry review, from NASA The Greek alphabet Uncertainty, error and precision in quantitative measurements A beginner’s guide to Excel Plotting a graph with Excel: an example includes:plotting points, adding error bars, fitting a line How to join the geology and environmental studies e-mail lists.

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