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Please use this form to describe geoscience tools such as data viewers, mapping programs, interactive databases or visualization programs. We will use the information you provide to create a web page for educators.
To see an example of a completed tool sheet, see the
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Describe the ways in which this tool can be used in geoscience, especially as it related to teaching geoscience. Is this tool strictly an educational tool? Is it used in industry?
What type of educational setting suits this tool?
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