Taking the pulse of planet Earth: A proposal for a new multi-disciplinary flagship project in Canadian solid earth sciences

Geoscience Canada

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 179-190

  Bleeker, Wouter ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; EARTH SCIENCES; FLOODS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; ISOTOPES; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; STRATIGRAPHY;

CANADA; PALEO-INTENSITIES; PLANETARY EVOLUTIONS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EARTH (PLANET);

DIKE SWARM; EARTH SCIENCE; MAGMATISM; RESEARCH;

EID: 8844242768     PISSN: 03150941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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