Antarctic Peninsula Late Cretaceous-early Cenozoic palæoenvironments and Gondwana Palæogeographies

Journal of African Earth Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 91-105

  Dingle, R V ^a   Lavelle, M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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