Students' conceptions of scale regarding groundwater

Journal of Geoscience Education

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 374-380

  Dickerson, Daniel ^a   Callahan, Timothy J ^b   Van Sickle, Meta ^b   Hay, Genny ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b School of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCE; EDUCATION;

EID: 27744555435     PISSN: 10899995     EISSN: 10899995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5408/1089-9995-53.4.374     Document Type: Article

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