Database Name:	GEOLINE
Acronym:	GEOL
Producer:	BGR - Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe
Type of Information:	Bibliographic
Group(s):	GEOLOGY, MINERAL RESOURCES, MINING
Database Description:	Contains citations, with some abstracts, to the worldwide geosciences literature. Covers: geochemistry and geophysics, geodesy, hydrology, mineralogy and petrography, mining, peat technology, paleontology, coal and petroleum geology, sedimentology, stratigraphy, tectonics, volcanology. Includes engineering and environmental aspects.
Information Sources:	Journals, books, conference proceedings, monographs, reports, maps and dissertations.
Time Span:	Since 1970
Numer of Records:	More than 900,000
Language:	English; French; German
Updating Frequency:	Variable, according to the distributor
Distributors:	BGR (online) Produced by different institutions, there are other databases in geosciences, for example: AUSGEOREF (Australia) ; ECOGEODB (10 countries in Central and Southwest Asia); NGDC (United Kingdom); NGDIR (Iran); SAGEOLIT (South Africa) ; WMGDB (Canada)