A mailab 5 program for calculating the statistics of mass change

Journal of Geoscience Education

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 313-320

  Warren, Heather Noel ^a   Girty, Gary H ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Education Computer assisted; Geochemistry; Miscellaneous and mathematical geology; Structural geology

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCE; EDUCATION; MASS TRANSFER; METASOMATISM; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0033392240     PISSN: 10899995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5408/1089-9995-47.4.313     Document Type: Article

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