Tibet field camp as a 'roof of the world' capstone experience for earth science majors

Journal of Geoscience Education

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 349-356

  Aitchison, Jonathan C ^a   Ali, Jason R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; FIELDWORK; GEOLOGY; HIGHER EDUCATION; LEARNING; STUDENT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XIZANG;

EID: 54349110521     PISSN: 10899995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5408/1089-9995-55.5.349     Document Type: Article

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