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Enter your search terms in the Subjects search window
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Your search is executed when you click the Search and Display button
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Your terms will be searched in the following fields:
- Geological Subject Categories (e. g. metallic minerals, petrology, stratigraphy)
- Geological Keywords (e. g. basalts, till geochemistry, scheelite)
- Geological Nomenclature (e. g. Meguma Gp, Halifax Fm, Coxheath Mine, Hylonomus)
- Geological Age (e. g. Cambrian, Triassic, Paleozoic)
- Illustrations (e. g. drillhole logs, seismic profiles, variation diagrams)
- Mining Districts (e. g. Tangier Gold District, Londonderry Iron District, Pictou Coalfield)
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The Subjects field contains all the geological descriptors associated with the document except the types of maps in the document. These are found in the Map Types field
Sample Searches
- Exact Subjects Search
- click Subject Browse button to see listing of Subjects terms
- use Go To button to search for your Subjects term
- click Checkbox to select 1 or more Subjects term(s)
- click Add/Back to Search button to add term(s) to Subjects search window
- Multiple Subjects Search
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to find documents containing all of your Subjects, put an & symbol between the terms:
e. g. gold&silver finds documents with gold AND silver in the Subjects fields
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to find documents containing any of your Subjects, put a | symbol between the terms:
e. g. gold|silver finds documents with gold OR silver in the Subjects fields
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