The campus mine: An adaptable instruction approach using simulated underground geology in a campus building to improve geospatial reasoning before fieldwork

Journal of Geoscience Education

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 253-261

  Benson, Robert G ^a  

^a ADAMS STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELDWORK; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; HIGHER EDUCATION; LEARNING; MINE; SIMULATION; TRAINING; UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION;

ALAMOSA COUNTY; COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650205374     PISSN: 10899995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5408/1.3559688     Document Type: Article

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