Early Paleozoic sedimentation, magmatism, and deformation in the Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica: The significance of the Ross orogeny

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 685-707

  Storey, Bryan C ^a   Macdonald, David I M ^a,e   Dalziel, Ian W D ^b   Isbell, John L ^c   Millar, Ian L ^d  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^d NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^e West Building   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; DEFORMATION; LEAD ALLOYS; LIME; LIMESTONE; SILICATE MINERALS; URANIUM ALLOYS; VOLCANOES; ZIRCON;

ACTIVE DEFORMATION; CONVERGENT MARGIN; EPHEMERAL STREAMS; EROSION SURFACES; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOWER ORDOVICIAN; TECTONIC SETTINGS; UPB ZIRCON AGE (SHRIMP); ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALIA; EARLY PALEOZOIC; FORELAND BASIN; LOWER PALEOZOIC; MAGMATISMS; NEOPROTEROZOIC;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CONGLOMERATE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DELAMERIAN OROGENY; FORELAND BASIN; LIMESTONE; MAGMATISM; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOCURRENT; PALEOZOIC; PRECAMBRIAN; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; PALAEOZOIC; ROSS OROGENY; SEDIMENTATION;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; PENSACOLA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0029749665     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<0685:EPSMAD>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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