Terrain description as a collaborative-writing component in undergraduate geomorphology instruction

Journal of Geoscience Education

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 344-347

  Rice Snow, Scott ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Areal geology maps, charts, photographs; Education (by) writing and speaking; Education geoscience; Education undergraduate; Geology teaching and curriculum; Surficial geology geomorphology

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY;

EID: 0031416185     PISSN: 10899995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5408/1089-9995-45.4.344     Document Type: Article

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