Useful links
Links reviewed in October 2026. If you find one that no longer works, please let the Director know: director@dct.uminho.pt.
Links at the University of Minho
- University of Minho
- School of Sciences
- Institute of Earth Sciences (ICT) (research unit with branches in Évora, Minho and Porto)
- University of Minho Libraries (USDB) (catalogue searches, reservations, ...)
- RepositóriUM (open-access institutional repository)
- Online Knowledge Library (b-on) (access to scientific journals and books)
- E-learning (Blackboard)
- Academic Portal (academic services)
- University of Minho intranet (restricted to UMinho members)
- Social Services (SASUM)
- Sou.UMinho (information for new students)
- Alumni UMinho
Links of geological interest in Portugal
Institutions
- Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) (environment and water resources; successor to the Water Institute)
- Portuguese Association of Geologists
- Army Geospatial Information Centre (CIGeoE)
- Ciência Viva (National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture)
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Coimbra
- Department of Earth Sciences, NOVA University Lisbon
- Department of Earth Sciences and Energy, University of Lisbon
- Department of Geosciences, University of Aveiro
- Department of Geosciences, University of Évora
- Department of Geosciences, Environment and Spatial Planning, University of Porto
- Geotechnics Department, National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC)
- Directorate-General for Energy and Geology (DGEG) (mines, quarries, mineral waters and geothermal energy)
- Directorate-General for Territory (DGT) (official mapping; successor to the Portuguese Geographic Institute and CNIG)
- Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of the Azores (includes the Department of Geosciences)
- Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests (ICNF) (protected areas)
- Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) (meteorology, seismology and the sea)
- National Laboratory of Energy and Geology (LNEG) (national geological survey; successor to the Geological and Mining Institute)
- UTAD Geology Museum
- National Museum of Natural History and Science (University of Lisbon Museums)
- Geological Society of Portugal
Journals
- Ciências da Terra – Earth Sciences Journal (NOVA University Lisbon)
- Comunicações Geológicas (LNEG) (open access; formerly Comunicações do IGM)
- Estudos do Quaternário (APEQ)
- Estudos, Notas e Trabalhos (LNEG) (historical IGM series)
- Finisterra – Revista Portuguesa de Geografia
- Memórias (Nova Série) – LNEG
Miscellaneous
- LNEG geoPortal (digital geological mapping)
- National Inventory of Geological Heritage (geosites)
- IPMA – Seismicity (recent earthquakes)
- Peneda-Gerês National Park
- Valongo Palaeozoic Park (page on the Roteiro das Minas website)
- ProGEO-Portugal (Portuguese group of ProGEO)
- Roteiro das Minas (mines and sites of mining and geological interest) (DGEG)
- National Water Resources Information System (SNIRH)
- National Geographic Information System (SNIG)
- UNESCO Global Geoparks in Portugal
- Arouca
- Naturtejo
- Azores
- Terras de Cavaleiros (page on the Roteiro das Minas website)
- Estrela
- Oeste
- Algarvensis
Geological links in the rest of the world
Institutions
- American Geophysical Union
- American Geosciences Institute (AGI)
- American Institute of Professional Geologists
- APEGA (Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta)
- Association for Women Geoscientists
- Association of American State Geologists
- EuroGeoSurveys – The Geological Surveys of Europe
- European Geosciences Union (EGU)
- Geochemical Society
- Geological Society of America
- INRAE (France)
- International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH)
- International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS)
- International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI)
- International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) (includes the International Chronostratigraphic Chart)
- International Geothermal Association
- International Society for Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (ISRM)
- International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
- International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)
- Klimadatastyrelsen (Denmark)
- Mineralogical Association of Canada
- Mineralogical Society
- Mineralogical Society of America
- NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
- Natural England
- Natural Resources Canada
- ProGEO – European Association for the Conservation of the Geological Heritage
- Society of Sedimentary Geology
- The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
- The Clay Minerals Society
- The European Federation of Geologists (EFG)
- The Geological Society of London
- The Paleontological Society
- The Society of Economic Geologists
- National geological surveys
- BRGM (France)
- British Geological Survey
- Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
- Geological Survey of Finland (GTK)
- Geological Survey of Ireland
- Geological Survey of Japan
- Geological Survey of Norway
- Geoscience Australia
- Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME-CSIC)
- Geological Survey of Brazil
- TNO – Geologische Dienst Nederland (Geological Survey of the Netherlands)
- United States Geological Survey
Miscellaneous
- Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF)
- Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
- Earthworks (geoscience jobs)
- Geologic time scale (UCMP, Berkeley)
- European Geological Data Infrastructure (EGDI)
- European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC)
- GDACS – Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System
- Geólogos del Mundo
- Geology Labs Online (virtual labs: dating, earthquakes, volcanoes, groundwater, ...)
- GeoScience (geothermal consulting and borehole data)
- Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
- Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) (programme archive)
- Smithsonian Institution – Global Volcanism Program
- UNESCO Global Geoparks
- USGS – Latest Earthquakes (real-time earthquakes)
- Volcano World
Journals
- Advances in Water Resources
- All Earth (formerly Geodinamica Acta)
- American Mineralogist
- Annales de Paléontologie
- Annales Geophysicae
- Applied Clay Science
- Applied Geochemistry
- Bulletin of Engineering Geology and Environment
- Bulletin of Volcanology
- Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
- Catena
- Chemical Geology
- Clay Minerals
- Comptes Rendus Géoscience (formerly Comptes Rendus, Série IIA)
- Computers & Geosciences
- Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
- Earth and Planetary Science Letters
- Earth-Science Reviews
- Engineering Geology
- Environmental & Engineering Geoscience
- Environmental Earth Sciences (formerly Environmental Geology)
- Episodes
- European Journal of Mineralogy
- Geo-marine Letters
- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
- Geoderma
- Geoenergy Science and Engineering (formerly Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering)
- Geological Magazine
- Geological Society of America Bulletin
- Geology
- Geomorphology
- Geothermics
- Global and Planetary Change
- GSA Today
- Hydrogeology Journal
- International Journal of Coal Geology
- International Journal of Earth Sciences
- Journal of African Earth Sciences
- Journal of Applied Geophysics
- Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
- Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
- Journal of Geochemical Exploration
- Journal of Geodesy
- Journal of Geodynamics
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
- Journal of Hydrology
- Journal of Marine Systems
- Journal of Metamorphic Geology
- Journal of Petrology
- Journal of South American Earth Sciences
- Journal of Structural Geology
- Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
- Lithos
- Marine and Petroleum Geology
- Marine Chemistry
- Marine Geology
- Marine Micropaleontology
- Mineralium Deposita
- Mineralogical Magazine
- Mineralogy and Petrology
- Minerals Engineering
- Ore Geology Reviews
- Organic Geochemistry
- Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
- Physics and Chemistry of Minerals
- Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C
- Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors
- Planetary and Space Science
- Precambrian Research
- Progress in Oceanography
- Pure and Applied Geophysics
- Quaternary International
- Quaternary Science Reviews
- Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
- EGU open-access journals
- Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering
- Sedimentary Geology
- Soil Science Society of America Journal
- Tectonics
- Tectonophysics
- Terra Nova
- The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology (formerly Canadian Mineralogist)
- Water Resources Research
Catalogues and databases
- EarthChem (geochemical data)
- GEOROC (geochemistry of igneous rocks)
- Macrostrat (global geological data and maps)
- Mindat.org (minerals and localities)
- PANGAEA (Earth and environmental science data)
- RockWare (geoscience software)
- The Paleobiology Database (fossil occurrences)