View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Archivio Aperto di Ateneo The Geology of Somalia: a Selected Bibliography of Somalian Geology, Geography and Earth Science. AD By R. Lee Hadden Topographic Engineering Center February 2007 US Army Corps of Engineers 7701 Telegraph Road Alexandria, Virginia 22315 UNCLASSIFIED / UNLIMITED Bibliography of Liberian Earth Science REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing this collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden to Department of Defense, Washington Headquarters Services, Directorate for Information Operations and Reports (0704-0188), 1215 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 1204, Arlington, VA 22202-4302. Respondents should be aware that notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information if it does not display a currently valid OMB control number. PLEASE DO NOT RETURN YOUR FORM TO THE ABOVE ADDRESS. 1. REPORT DATE 02-2007 2. REPORT TYPE: Bibliography 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE: The Geology of Somalia: a Selected Bibliography of Somalian Geology, Geography and Earth Science. 6. AUTHOR(S) HADDEN, Robert Lee 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) US Army Corps of Engineers 7701 Telegraph Road Topographic Engineering Alexandria, VA 22315-3864 Center 9.ATTN SPONSORING CEERD / MONITORINGTO I AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) Geospatial Information 7701 Telegraph Road Library (GIL) Alexandria, VA 22315-3864 12. DISTRIBUTION / AVAILABILITY STATEMENT Unclassified/Unlimited 13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES: 14. ABSTRACT This bibliography on the geographical, water and geological information of Somalia was begun to fill a request for current information on that war torn state. This bibliography brings together selected citations from a variety of different cartographic, geographical, geological and hydrological resources and a number of specialized library collections. Most of the citations have location information on where these items can be located and either used on site, or borrowed through inter-library loan, or where copies of the items can be purchased from the originating source, or through commercial document delivery services. 15. SUBJECT TERMS: Somalia. Agriculture. Climate. Drainage. Earth Sciences. Economy. Energy. Forests. Geology. Geography. Groundwater. Hydrology. Maps. Mining. Rivers. Soils. Surface-water. Terrain. Topography. Transportation. Vegetation Water Wells 16. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF: 17. LIMITATION 18. Unclassified OF ABSTRACT NUMBER a. b. ABSTRACT c. THIS PAGE Unlimited REPORT 404 R. L. Hadden 3/13/2007 2 Somalian Earth Sciences Introduction This bibliography on the geology, geography and earth sciences of Somalia was gathered from a variety of different abstracting, bibliographical and cartographical resources. They include citations from agriculture, botany, engineering, geology, geography, medical, military science, soils, transportation and other subject resources. These citation resources are provided by a number of scientific societies, such as the American Geographical Society; from government resources, such as the Defense Technical Information Center; non-governmental organizations such as the United Nation’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO); and from commercial databanks such as GeoRef, WorldCat and GeoBase. Many unique citations were collected from the catalogs and resources of major research libraries, such as the Library of Congress and the US Geological Survey Library. Within this bibliography, the article retrieval information is given as much as possible. These include specific ISSN, ISBN, OCLC and Library of Congress numbers that allow the electronic borrowing or copying of these items through library networks. Alternately, the citations also include information on acquiring these items through document delivery companies and commercial services. Very often, scientific publications in less developed countries are not published in large numbers, and it is very difficult to retrieve reports or maps more than even a few years old. This bibliography is intended to be a resource for those scientific citations on Somalia that can still be retrieved. Within these citations are many variations in spelling and place names. Many scientific and cartographic investigations were done in Cushitic, European and Semitic languages, such as Arabic, English, French, Italian and Somali. Thus, the same name may be spelled differently according to the language(s) used. Variations on single and doubled consonants (geminated consonants) and single and doubled vowels (diphthongs) are common. Mogadisco, Mogadiscio, Mogadishu, Mogadischu and Muqdisho are all variations on the name of the capital city. The river Juba can be spelled Jubba, Juba, Giuba, etc., according to the language used, as can the port city of Chisimaio, Chisimayo, Kismayo, Kisimayo, Kisymao, etc. So any search for authors, place names and locations in this bibliography should take into account spelling variations. Abbreviations and links to resources used: (All links and URLs in this bibliography are current as of January 2007) AGI: American Geological Institute, Alexandria, VA. See: www.agiweb.org AGS: American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus. See: http://www.amergeog.org AS&T: Applied Science & Technology from H.W. Wilson is a bibliographic database that indexes articles of at least one column in length. English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere are covered; non-English language articles are included if English abstracts are provided. Periodical coverage includes trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals, as well as special issues such as buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings. See: http://www.hwwilson.com/Databases/applieds.htm#Abstracts Engineering Research and Development Center 1 Somalian Earth Sciences ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts Input to ASFA is provided by a growing international network of information centers monitoring more than 5,000 serial publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations, and limited distribution literature. ASFA is a component of the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System (ASFIS), formed by four United Nations agency sponsors of ASFA and a network of international and national partners. Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts are produced by CSA under contract to FAO. See: http://www.csa.com/ British Library: The British Library Document Supply Service can supply many of the article citations and reports given in this bibliography, especially those maps and other materials owned by the British Library. See: http://www.bl.uk/services/document/dsc.html CISTI: Canada Institute of Scientific and Technical Information. This is a Canadian document supply service for scientific and technical literature. “Through Global Service, CISTI can obtain any document for you, from anywhere in the world. Most documents are supplied within four weeks. You can specify the level of service you prefer at the time of ordering by choosing the appropriate line from the drop down menu on any of the CISTI order forms.” See: http://cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ CSA Technology Research Database: This comprehensive database provides a single mega-file of all the unique records available through its 3 components: the CSA Materials Research Database with METADEX, CSA High Technology Research Database with Aerospace, and the CSA Engineering Research Database. The database content represents the most comprehensive and current coverage of the relevant serial and non-serial literature available. Sources covered include over 4,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases. See: http://www.csa.com/ DTIC: Defense Technical Information Center, Alexandria, VA. See: www.dtic.mil ESPM: The CSA Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management database offers access to the international literature in the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 6000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications. See: http://www.csa.com/ FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization Library, United Nations, Rome, Italy. See: www.fao.org GeoBase: GEOBASE is a unique multidisciplinary database supplying bibliographic information and abstracts for development studies, the Earth sciences, ecology, geomechanics, human geography, and oceanography. The database provides current coverage of almost 2,000 international journals, including both peer-reviewed titles and trade publications, and provides archival coverage of several thousand additional journal titles and books. GEOBASE is unequalled in its coverage of international literature of the core scientific and technical periodicals. Papers are selected, read, and classified using a unique classification scheme that is versatile and updated annually to adapt coverage to current research trends. The