Teaching winter geohydrology using frozen lakes and snowy mountains

Journal of Geoscience Education

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 420-429

  Gran, Sara Elizabeth ^a   Bierman, Paul Robert ^a   Nichols, Kyle Keedy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth science teaching and curriculum; Education geoscience; Geohydrology and hydrology; Miscellaneous and mathematical geology

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; FROZEN GROUND; HYDROGEOLOGY;

EID: 0033400350     PISSN: 10899995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5408/1089-9995-47.5.420     Document Type: Article

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