Cenozoic Strike-Slip Induced Basin Inversion in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

Terra Antarctica

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 209-215

  Salvini, F ^a   Storti, F ^a   Brancolini, G ^b   Busetti, M ^b   De Cillia, C ^b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

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