A strategy for teaching an effective undergraduate mineralogy course

Journal of Geoscience Education

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 15-22

  Swope, R Jeffrey ^a   Gieré, Reto ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCE; EDUCATION; MINERALOGY;

EID: 1842679317     PISSN: 10899995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5408/1089-9995-52.1.15     Document Type: Article

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