Auroral and space physics: The heavens in a pile of sand

Science

Volumn 298, Issue 5595, 2002, Pages 979-980

  Freeman, Mervyn P ^a   Watkins, Nicholas W ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURORA; PHYSICS;

ARCTIC CLIMATE; ASTRONOMY; COMPLEX FORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; EVOLUTION; MAGNETISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAND; SHORT SURVEY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036830149     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1075555     Document Type: Short Survey

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