Presidential Address: Geosemiosis

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 633-645

  Baker, Victor R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY;

EARTH PROCESS; HYPOTHESIS GENERATION; MODERN SCIENCE; PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS; PRODUCTIVE REASONINGS; QUANTITATIVE MODELING;

SEMIOTICS;

GEOLOGY; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0032854971     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<0633:G>2.3.CO     Document Type: Article

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