Seismic stratigraphy of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica: Implications for glacially influenced early Cenozoic eustatic change?

Marine Geology

Volumn 130, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 79-98

  Bartek, Louis R ^a   Henrys, Stuart A ^b   Anderson, John B ^c   Barrett, Peter J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARLY CAINOZOIC; EUSTASY; EUSTATIC CHANGES; GLACIATION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY; TERTIARY;

ANTARCTICA, MCMURDO SOUND;

EID: 0029772096     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0025-3227(95)00121-2     Document Type: Article

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