Emergent and animated COLLADA models of the Tonga Trench and Samoa Archipelago: Implications for geoscience modeling, education, and research

Geosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 491-506

  De Paor, Declan G ^a   Wild, Steve C ^a   Dordevic, Mladen M ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EDUCATION; LEARNING; MODELING; NEOTECTONICS; PLATE TECTONICS; RESEARCH; TSUNAMI; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AMERICAN SAMOA; PACIFIC OCEAN; TONGA TRENCH;

EID: 84862693697     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00758.1     Document Type: Article

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