Geology Help Page
Geology Department in Northern Spain - October 2008
- help with library research
- Library Research Guide for Geology (http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/guides/Geology/)
- Electronic science journals available through the Collier Library website
- 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.
