Building the American mineralogist crystal structure database: A recipe for construction of a small Internet database

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 397, Issue , 2006, Pages 73-80

  Rajan, Hareesh ^a   Uchida, Hinako ^a   Bryan, Deborah L ^a   Swaminathan, Ranjininov ^b   Downs, Robert T ^a   Hall Wallace, Michelle ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Crystal structure; Database; Visualization

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MINERALS; WEBSITES;

ANALYSIS SOFTWARES; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE DATA; DYNAMIC CONSTRUCTION; INTERNET DATABASE; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE; SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL; SEARCH PROCEDURES; SERVER SIDES;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DATABASE; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; INTERNET; SOFTWARE; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 73849145491     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2397(06)     Document Type: Article

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