Heavy mineral suites as provenance indicators: La Meseta Formation (Eocene), Marambio (Seymour) Island, Antarctic Peninsula

Revista de la Asociacion Argentina de Sedimentologia

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 9-19

  Marenssi, Sergio A ^a,b,c   Santillana, Sergio N ^a,b   Net, Laura L ^b,c   Rinaldi, Carlos A ^a,c  

^a Instituto Antdrtico Argentino   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Eocene; Heavy mineral suites. provenance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002506714     PISSN: 18536360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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