Central Dronning Maud Land: Its History from Amalgamation to Fragmentation of Gondwana

Terra Antarctica

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 41-49

  Paech, H J ^a  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

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