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Folder 10 International Geological Congress, Sessions XVI, 1933, XVIII, 1940 and 1948, and XIX, 1952

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Archival materials
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7314, Charles Lewis Gazin Papers
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Charles Lewis Gazin Papers / Series 5: ORGANIZATIONS, 1930-1984. / Box 21
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Folder 11 International Geological Congress, Session XX, Mexico, 1956. Includes programs and correspondence concerning hotel arrangements.

Container:
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Archival materials
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7314, Charles Lewis Gazin Papers
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Charles Lewis Gazin Papers / Series 5: ORGANIZATIONS, 1930-1984. / Box 21
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Folder 12 International Geological Congress, Session XXI, Denmark, 1960. Includes correspondence, programs, and minutes of meetings.

Container:
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Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7314, Charles Lewis Gazin Papers
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Charles Lewis Gazin Papers / Series 5: ORGANIZATIONS, 1930-1984. / Box 21
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Charles Lewis Gazin Papers

Names:
American Geological Institute  Search this
California Institute of Technology  Search this
Geological Society of America  Search this
Geological Survey (U.S.)  Search this
National Research Council (U.S.)  Search this
National Science Foundation (U.S.)  Search this
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology  Search this
United States National Museum. Division of Vertebrate Paleontology  Search this
United States. Army Air Forces  Search this
Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington, D.C.)  Search this
Gazin, C. Lewis (Charles Lewis), 1904-1996  Search this
Extent:
24.60 cu. ft. (45 document boxes) (3 16x20 boxes) (1 oversize folder)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Scientific illustrations
Field notes
Black-and-white photographs
Manuscripts
Date:
1901-1984 and undated
Introduction:
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
Descriptive Entry:
The Charles Lewis Gazin Papers document his professional career during his tenure at the Smithsonian, 1932-1984, and, to a slight extent, his graduate work, 1927-1930. Several aspects of Gazin's career receive extensive documentation in the papers: his administrative and curatorial duties at the Smithsonian; his field work and study trips; his research and publication in vertebrate paleontology, especially early mammals; his involvement with professional organizations; his activities with colleagues in the scientific community; and his interactions with the public. There are also correspondence, records, and papers of other scientists, some predating Gazin's career, which he apparently collected. The papers contain very little concerning his personal life.

Gazin maintained a voluminous correspondence documenting most aspects of his professional career. Most of the correspondence, including Smithsonian memoranda, and exchanges with colleagues and the public, is located in Series 1. However, a sizable amount, usually concerning specific subjects and organizations, is distributed throughout the collection.

Materials associated with Gazin's administration of the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology are similarly dispersed. Those reflecting the day-to-day operations of the Division, such as memoranda, reports, budget notes, and informational publications, are concentrated in Series 2. The curatorial work of the Division is documented by records of specimen loans; photographs of specimen preparation and mounting; and memoranda, scripts, inventories, and drawings relating to the design and presentation of exhibits. Comprehensive discussion of Division activities is available in the Annual Reports, dating to 1906, which also document Charles W. Gilmore's tenure in the Division. These are located in Series 3.

Records of Gazin's frequent field expeditions include accounts of expenses; lists of collected specimens; photographs; and, sporadically, field diaries and narrative reports. As with other Division activities, the Annual Reports consistently provide the most complete descriptions of expeditions. Comprehensive coverage of Gazin's grant-sponsored museum trips and field work, including research proposals, progress reports, itineraries, and correspondence, can be found in the National Science Foundation files within Series 8.

Gazin's research is further documented by notes, drafts, and manuscripts relating to his publications and talks. Of note are the files relating to "Mammalian Faunal Zones of Bridger Eocene" (see Bridger Zones files) and "A Study of the Eocene Condylarthran Mammal Hyopsodus" (see Hyopsodus files) which record the progression of the papers from notes to printer's copies. Associated with Gazin's manuscripts are the scientific illustrations prepared for them. See Series 11.

Material reflecting Gazin's participation in professional societies is mostly located in the organization files located in Series 5. Those societies in which Gazin was long and actively involved, such as the American Geological Institute, the Geological Society of America, and the Washington Academy of Sciences, are represented extensively by correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes of meetings, and circulars, which in effect, document periods of their history.

A few organizations are represented in separate series. These records pertain to Gazin's research through the National Science Foundation (NSF), and his reviews of research proposals submitted to NSF (Series 8); his various positions with the Earth Sciences Division of the National Research Council (Series 7); and his long-standing service to the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) (Series 6). Correspondence, manuscripts, and charts included in the SVP files document the collective efforts of Gazin and his SVP colleagues to define and correlate, by the incidence of vertebrate fossils, the geologic formations of the North American continental Tertiary.
Historical Note:
Charles Lewis Gazin (1904-1996) was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Raised on the west coast, his first acquaintance with prehistoric animals took place on a childhood visit to the Los Angeles County Museum. As a student at the California Institute of Technology (CIT), he pursued a general interest in geology, receiving the B.S. degree in 1927 and the M.S. degree in 1928. In his graduate work, culminating in a Ph.D. earned at CIT in 1930, he focused on the study of vertebrate paleontology, his lifelong interest.

Gazin's long tenure in government service began in 1930 with his appointment as Junior Geologist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS). While assisting USGS geologists in studying and mapping geologic regions in Montana, Idaho, and California, Gazin also collected Miocene fossils for the United States National Museum (USNM). In 1932, he became Assistant Curator in the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology at the USNM. Gazin served in that capacity until 1942 when, although maintaining a formal association with the Division as Associate Curator, he took a military leave from the Museum to participate actively in the war effort. Rising in rank from 1st Lieutenant to Major in the U. S. Army Air Force, he taught at the Air Force Intelligence School and also worked in radar intelligence, for which he received the Legion of Merit in 1946.

Gazin returned to the USNM in 1946 as Curator of the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, a position he held until 1967. During 1967 he served as Acting Chairman of the Department of Paleobiology, before being named Senior Paleontologist. From 1970 to 1982 Gazin served as Paleobiologist Emeritus and from 1982 to 1984, as Curator Emeritus.

Gazin's research interests concern the vertebrate paleontology of the Tertiary and Quaternary of continental North America. Together with his responsibility for collecting fossil material for the Smithsonian, these interests spurred considerable field work over his career. Between 1934 and 1969, except during World War II, Gazin led field expeditions nearly every summer. Though he explored and excavated in much of the western United States, his efforts were concentrated on Hagerman, Idaho; southwestern Wyoming; central and northeastern Utah; San Juan Basin, New Mexico; San Pedro Valley, Arizona; and Huerfano and Denver Basins, Colorado. From these and other arid locales, he recovered prodigious quantities of mammalian fossils of Paleocene to Pleistocene age, in addition to fossils of Cretaceous dinosaurs and lizards. Most of the 99 works listed in his bibliography, and nearly all of his longer publications, whether describing regional faunal assemblages or focusing on particular varieties of early mammals, are based upon this extensive field work in the Rocky Mountain West.

During the winters of 1950 and 1951, Gazin conducted field work in Panama, returning to the Smithsonian with approximately ten tons of Pleistocene mammal specimens. Principal among them were two skeletons of the giant ground sloth Eremotherium, exhibited since at the National Museum of Natural History.

In 1960 Gazin received a four-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant that he extended into a seven-year study of early Tertiary mammals. Under the grant, he made four field expeditions, mostly to Wyoming; trips to study museum specimens and fossil localities in Europe during 1960 and Guatemala, Nicaragua, Brazil, and Argentina in 1962; and numerous visits to inspect specimens in museums and universities in the United States. Gazin's study produced three major papers, published in the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, as well as several shorter articles. With a second NSF grant, received jointly with Waldo R. Wedel of the Smithsonian's Department of Anthropology in 1961, Gazin participated in the collection and study of Pleistocene and recent mammals found in association with human artifacts near Littleton, Colorado.

Gazin also took an active role in several professional organizations. He was a charter member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, serving as its President, 1949-1950; representative to the National Research Council, 1948-1951, 1957-1960; and on several committees working to define and correlate the North American continental Tertiary. He assisted in drafting the constitution of the American Geological Institute and served as Director, 1956-1958, and 1962. He also chaired the National Research Council committee on postdoctoral fellowships in the earth sciences, 1960-1963.
Chronology:
June 18, 1904 -- born in Colorado Springs, Colorado

1927 -- married Alice Van Dusen; had three children

1927 -- B.S., with honors, California Institute of Technology

1927 -- field work in Santa Barbara County, California

1928 -- M.S., CIT

1928, 1929 -- field work in eastern Oregon and northeastern Nevada

1930 -- field work in San Pedro Valley, Arizona

1930 -- first prize, best pre-doctoral presentation, Cordilleron Section, Geological Society of America

1930 -- Doctor of Philosophy, CIT

1930 -- appointed Junior Geologist, USGS

1930 -- field work for USGS in western Montana and northern Idaho

1930-1931 -- geologic mapping of San Andreas fault zone in southern California for USGS; fossil collecting in the Cajon Pass and Palmdale area, California, for the USNM

1931 -- geologic mapping in Kettleman Hills, California, for USGS

1932 -- field work in Death Valley, California, for USGS

1932 -- appointed Assistant Curator, Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, USNM

1934 -- field work in southern Idaho

1936 -- field work in Arizona and San Juan Basin, New Mexico

1938 -- field work in central and northeastern Utah

1938-1940 -- Editor, Washington Academy of Sciences

1939 -- field work in central Utah

1940 -- field work in central Utah and southwestern Wyoming

1940 -- USNM delegate to 8th American Scientific Congress

1941 -- field work in southwestern Wyoming

1942 -- divorced Alice van Dusen Gazin

1942 -- appointed Associate Curator, Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, USNM

1942-1945 -- 1st Lieutenant to Major, United States Army Air Force (Intelligence)

1943 -- married Elizabeth Parker Hobbs

1946 -- appointed Curator, Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, USNM

1946 -- member, Editorial Board, Geological Society of America

1946 -- field work in central Utah and southwestern Wyoming

1946-1948 -- Secretary, Washington Academy of Sciences

1947 -- helped draft constitution, American Geological Institute (AGI)

1947 -- Incorporator, AGI, representing the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP)

1947 -- Field work in Huerfano Basin, Colorado

1948-1949 -- Member, USNM Committee on Modernization of Exhibits

1948-1951 -- Member, Division of Geology and Geography, National Research Council (NRC), representing the SVP

1949 -- Field work in San Juan Basin, New Mexico, and western Wyoming

1949-1950 -- President, SVP

1949-1951 -- Member, Board of Managers, Washington Academy of Sciences

1950 -- field work in the interior of Panama

1950-1951 -- Member, Executive Committee, Division of Geology and Geography, NRC

1951 -- field work in the interior of Panama

1951 -- field work in Strait Canyon, West Virginia

1951 -- field work in southwestern Wyoming

1952-1966 -- Member, SVP Cenozoic Committee

1952-1966 -- Chairman, SVP Eocene Subcommittee

1953 -- field work in southwestern Wyoming and northeastern Utah

1954 -- field work in southwestern Wyoming

1956 -- field work in Wyoming and Nebraska

1956 -- Smithsonian delegate to the 20th International Geological Congress, Mexico City

1956-1958 -- Member, USNM Space Requirements Planning Committee for wings for the Natural History Building

1956-1958 -- Director, AGI

1957 -- field work in southwestern Wyoming

1957-1960 -- Member, Earth Sciences Division, NRC, representing the SVP

1959 -- field work in southwestern Wyoming

1960 -- received National Science Foundation (NSF) funding for "Early Tertiary Mammals of America"

1960 -- Smithsonian delegate to the 21st International Geological Congress in Copenhagen and to symposia on early mammals in Brussels and Oxford

1960 -- study trip to museums and fossil localities in France, Spain, Switzerland, West Germany, Austria, Belgium, and England

1960-1963 -- Chairman, NRC Committee on Postdoctoral Fellowships in Earth Sciences

1960-1963 -- Member, NRC Physical Sciences Committee

-- 1961 received, with Waldo R. Wedel, NSF funding for "A Late Pleistocene Fauna and Possible Human Associations near Littleton, Colorado"

1961 -- field work in southwestern Wyoming; Littleton, Colorado; and Pipestone Springs, Montana

1962 -- Director, AGI

1962 -- study trip to museums and fossil localities in Brazil, Argentina, Nicaragua, and Guatemala

1963 -- field work in southwestern Wyoming

1964 -- field work in San Juan Basin, New Mexico, and southwestern Wyoming

1964-1966 -- Member and Alternate, Evaluation Committee, National Museum of Natural History

1965 -- field work in southwestern Wyoming

1965 -- survey and evaluation of the Childs Frick Corporation collection of fossil vertebrates in New York

1967 -- Acting Chairman, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)

1967 -- Chairman, Nominating Committee, SVP

1967 -- field work in southwestern Wyoming

1967-1970 -- Senior Paleobiologist, NMNH

1969 -- field work in southwestern Wyoming

1970 -- retired from NMNH

1970 -- named Paleobiologist Emeritus

1982-1984 -- names Curator Emeritus

1996 -- Death
Topic:
Paleontology  Search this
Vertebrate paleontology  Search this
Genre/Form:
Scientific illustrations
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Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7314, Charles Lewis Gazin Papers
Identifier:
Record Unit 7314
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Report; proceedings of section[s]. General editor: R. K. Sundaram

Author:
International Geological Congress (22nd : 1964 : Delhi)  Search this
Sundaram, R. K  Search this
Physical description:
volume illustrations, maps. (part folded) 25 cm
Type:
Congresses
Congrès
Conference papers and proceedings
Date:
1964
Topic:
Geology  Search this
Géologie  Search this
Call number:
QE1 .I6 1964eX
QE1.I6 1964eX
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
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edanmdm:siris_sil_4587

Excursion Party of the International Geological Congress, 1888

Container:
Box 15 of 32
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 16-103, Walcott Family Papers
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Walcott Family Papers
Walcott Family Papers / Box 15
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Abstracts : 30th International Geological Congress, Beijing, China, 4-14 August 1996

Title:
30th IGC abstracts
Author:
International Geological Congress (30th : 1996 : Beijing, China)  Search this
Physical description:
3 v. : ill., maps ; 28 cm
Type:
Congresses
Date:
1996
1996?]
Topic:
Geology  Search this
Call number:
QE1 .I614 1996
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Smithsonian Libraries
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Géologie de l'Europe : du Précambrien aux bassins sédimentaires post-hercyniens = Geology of Europe : from Precambrian to post-hercynian sedimentary basins / sous la coordination de Jean Cogné et Maurice Slansky

Title:
Geology of Europe
Colloque C 6
Author:
Cogné, Jean  Search this
Slansky, Maurice  Search this
International Geological Congress (26th : 1980 : Paris, France)  Search this
Physical description:
306 p. : ill. ; 27 cm
Type:
Congresses
Place:
Europe
Date:
1980
Topic:
Sedimentary basins  Search this
Call number:
QE571 .G345 1980
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
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Rodent and lagomorph families of Asian origins and diversification : proceedings of workshop WC-2, 29th International Geological Congress, Kyoto, Japan / edited by Yukimitsu Tomida, Chuankuei Li, and Takeshi Setoguchi

Author:
Tomida, Yukimitsu  Search this
Li, Chuan-Kuei  Search this
Setoguchi, Takeshi  Search this
International Geological Congress (29th : 1992 : Kyoto, Japan)  Search this
Physical description:
195 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm
Type:
Congresses
Place:
Asia
Date:
1994
C1994
Topic:
Rodents, Fossil  Search this
Ochotonidae, Fossil  Search this
Lagomorpha, Fossil  Search this
Rodents--Evolution  Search this
Ochotonidae--Evolution  Search this
Lagomorpha--Evolution  Search this
Call number:
QE882.R6 R68 1994
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
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Islas Canarias / por L. Fernández Navarro

Author:
Fernández Navarro, Lucas 1869-1930  Search this
Instituto Geológico de España  Search this
International Geological Congress (14th : 1926 : Madrid, Spain)  Search this
Physical description:
122 p., 25, [8] leaves of plates : ill., maps (some col., folded) ; 22 cm
Type:
Congresses
Place:
Canary Islands
Date:
1926
Topic:
Geology  Search this
Call number:
QE338 .F36 1926
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
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Guide des excursions du Xe. Congrès géologique international : Mexico, 1906

Author:
International Geological Congress (10th : 1906 : Mexico City, Mexico)  Search this
Physical description:
1 v. (various pagings) : ill., maps (some col.) ; 26 cm
Type:
Congresses
Place:
Mexico
Date:
1906
Topic:
Geology  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
QE1 .I61c 1906
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
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Report of the twenty-first session, Norden : Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, 1960 / general editor: Theodor Sorgenfrei

Author:
International Geological Congress (21st : 1960 : Copenhagen, Denmark)  Search this
Sorgenfrei, Theodor 1915-  Search this
Physical description:
28 v. : ill., maps ; 25 cm
Type:
Congresses
Place:
Scandinavia
Date:
1960
1964
1960-1964
Topic:
Geology  Search this
Call number:
QE1 .I61 1960
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
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Livret-guide des excursions en France du VIIIe Congrès géologique international

Author:
International Geological Congress (8th : 1900 : Paris, France)  Search this
Physical description:
1 portfolio (25 pamphlets) : ill., maps ; 23 cm
Type:
Congresses
Place:
France
Date:
1900
Topic:
Geology  Search this
Call number:
QE268 .I61g 1900
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
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edanmdm:siris_sil_454021

Livret-guide des excursions en Belgique

Title:
Guide des excursions en Belgique
Author:
International Geological Congress (13th : 1922) Brussels, Belgium)  Search this
Physical description:
1 portfolio (23 pamphlets) : ill., maps (some col., folded) ; 25 cm
Type:
Congresses
Place:
Belgium
Date:
1922
[1922?]
Topic:
Geology  Search this
Call number:
QE274 .I61 1922
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Smithsonian Libraries
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Isla de Mallorca / por Bartolomé Darder y Pablo Fallot

Author:
Darder, Bartolomé  Search this
Fallot, Paul  Search this
Instituto Geológico de España  Search this
International Geological Congress (14th : 1926 : Madrid, Spain)  Search this
Physical description:
125 p., 19 leaves of plates : ill., maps (some col., folded) ; 22 cm
Type:
Congresses
Place:
Spain
Majorca
Date:
1926
Topic:
Geology  Search this
Call number:
QE283 .D216 1926
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
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L'île de Majorque / par Bartolomé Darder et Paul Fallot

Author:
Darder, Bartolomé  Search this
Fallot, Paul  Search this
Instituto Geológico de España  Search this
International Geological Congress (14th : 1926 : Madrid, Spain)  Search this
Physical description:
113 p., 19 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps (some col.) ; 22 cm
Type:
Congresses
Place:
Spain
Majorca
Date:
1926
Topic:
Geology  Search this
Call number:
QE283 .D216 F1926
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
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Führer für die Exkursionen in Österreich / herausgegeben von dem Organisationskomitee des IX. Internationalen Geologen-Kongresses ; redigiert von F. Teller

Title:
Internationaler Geologen Kongress. Exkursionen in Oesterreich
Author:
International Geological Congress (9th : 1903 : Vienna, Austria)  Search this
Teller, Friedrich Joseph 1852-1913  Search this
Physical description:
49 pamphlets. illus., plates (part fold.) fold. maps, diagrs. 23 cm
Type:
Congresses
Place:
Austria
Date:
1903
Topic:
Geology  Search this
Call number:
QE266 .I61 1903
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
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Symposium de exploración geoquímica

Author:
International Geological Congress (20th : 1956 : Mexico)  Search this
Physical description:
3 v. (xv, 725 p.) maps (part fold.) diagrs., tables. 24 cm
Type:
Congresses
Date:
1958
1960
1958-60
Topic:
Geochemical prospecting  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
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edanmdm:siris_sil_548408

Geology and metallogeny of copper deposits : proceedings of the Copper Symposium, 27th International Geological Congress, Moscow, 1984 / edited by G.H. Friedrich ... [et al.]

Author:
Copper Symposium (1984 : Moscow, Russia)  Search this
Friedrich, Günther 1929-  Search this
International Geological Congress (27th : 1984 : Moscow, R.S.F.S.R.)  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 592 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Type:
Congresses
Date:
1986
C1986
Topic:
Copper ores  Search this
Call number:
QE390.2.C6C67 1984X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_322625

Composition, structure, and dynamics of the lithosphere- asthenosphere system / edited by K. Fuchs, C. Froidevaux

Author:
Fuchs, K  Search this
Froidevaux, C (Claude)  Search this
Physical description:
xi, 327 p. : ill. ; 28 cm
Type:
Congresses
Place:
Earth (Planet)
Date:
1987
Topic:
Petrology  Search this
Geodynamics  Search this
Crust  Search this
Mantle  Search this
Call number:
QE511.C65 1987X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_348350

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