A unifying lithostratigraphy of late Cretaceous-early tertiary fore-arc volcanic sequences on Alexander Island, Antarctica

Antarctic Science

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 209-220

  McCarron, Joe J ^a,b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

Circum Pacific; Fore arc magmatism

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; FOREARC; STRATIGRAPHY; TERTIARY; VOLCANISM;

ANTARCTICA, ALEXANDER ISLAND;

EID: 0030617683     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0954102097000266     Document Type: Article

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