Tectonic Rock Cycles

Journal of Geoscience Education

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 134-148

  Fichter, Lynn Stanton ^a  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; General; petrology; Geoscience; geology; Igneous and metamorphic, petrology; Sedimentary; plate tectonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 3943086424     PISSN: 10899995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5408/1089-9995-44.2.134     Document Type: Article

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