The complexities of moving topics beween disciplines: the case of buoyancy and isostasy

"A lack of prior knowledge in the other discipline" is often given by geoscience instructors to explain why students struggle to apply knowledge from other disciplines to the Earth

The complexities of moving topics beween disciplines: the case of buoyancy and isostasy

"A lack of prior knowledge in the other discipline" is often given by geoscience instructors to explain why students struggle to apply knowledge from other disciplines to the Earth

The complexities of moving topics beween disciplines: the case of buoyancy and isostasy

"A lack of prior knowledge in the other discipline" is often given by geoscience instructors to explain why students struggle to apply knowledge from other disciplines to the Earth

The complexities of moving topics beween disciplines: the case of buoyancy and isostasy

"A lack of prior knowledge in the other discipline" is often given by geoscience instructors to explain why students struggle to apply knowledge from other disciplines to the Earth

The complexities of moving topics beween disciplines: the case of buoyancy and isostasy

"A lack of prior knowledge in the other discipline" is often given by geoscience instructors to explain why students struggle to apply knowledge from other disciplines to the Earth

The complexities of moving topics beween disciplines: the case of buoyancy and isostasy

"A lack of prior knowledge in the other discipline" is often given by geoscience instructors to explain why students struggle to apply knowledge from other disciplines to the Earth

The complexities of moving topics beween disciplines: the case of buoyancy and isostasy

"A lack of prior knowledge in the other discipline" is often given by geoscience instructors to explain why students struggle to apply knowledge from other disciplines to the Earth

In this peer-reviewed publication by Kirsty Dunnett and Anders Mattias Lundmark, they investigate the statement above by considering the disciplinary crossing of buoyancy (physics) to isostasy (geoscience).

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Have a look at the paper here

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https://opentextbc.ca/physicalgeology2ed/

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