Facies and cyclicity of the Late Permian Bainmedart Coal Measures in the Northern Prince Charles Mountains, MacRobertson Land, Antarctica

Sedimentology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 295-322

  Fielding, Christopher R ^a   Webb, John A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CYCLICITY; FACIES DISTRIBUTION; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; PERMIAN;

ANTARCTICA, MACROBERTSON LAND, PRINCE CHARLES MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0029731795     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1996.d01-6.x     Document Type: Article

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