Continental fragmentation along the South Scotia Ridge transcurrent plate boundary (NE Antarctic Peninsula)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 258, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 275-301

  Galindo Zaldivar J ^a   Jabaloy, A ^a   Maldonado, A ^b   Sanz de Galdeano, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL FRAGMENTATION; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; PLATE BOUNDARY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSCURRENT BOUNDARY;

ANTARCTICA, ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; SOUTH OCEAN, SCOTIA RIDGE;

EID: 0030458756     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(95)00211-1     Document Type: Article

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