Research Guides: Environmental Studies: Touchstones for Library Research: Atlases & Maps

Finding & Citing Atlases & Maps

General and thematic atlases with call numbers between G1019-G4400 are located in the MAPS area on the 3rd Floor.
Wall maps and Individual flat United States Geological Survey (USGS) topographical maps for WASHINGTON are in the Maps Area located on the 3rd floor.
Subject atlases may be located in the catalog by combining "atlas" with other keywords. Entering the keywords atlas [and] human would result in titles from science, art, and geography, for instance:

Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist by Stephen Rogers Peck
Call Number: NC760 .P35
ISBN: 9780195030952
Publication Date: 1982-02-18

The National Map
After you're on TNM page, look for the yellow highlighted link in the Applications box to start making maps.

Water Resources of the United Water is one of six science mission areas of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Water's mission is to collect and disseminate reliable, impartial, and timely information that is needed to understand the Nation's water resources.
Earthquakes
TopoView The maps shown through topoView are from the USGS’s Historical Topographic Map Collection (HTMC). The goal of this scanning, which started in 2011, is to provide a digital repository of USGS 1:250,000 scale and larger (more detailed) maps printed between 1884 (the inception of the topographic mapping program), and 2006.
National Geological Map Database

U.S.

GLOBAL

The Digital Coast
Electronic nautical charts, sea level viewer, tools, and data.