Cretaceous and Cenozoic episodic denudation of the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: New constraints from apatite fission track thermochronology in the Scott Glacier region

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 102, Issue B4, 1997, Pages 7747-7765

  Fitzgerald, Paul G ^a   Stump, Edmund ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CAINOZOIC; CRETACEOUS; DENUDATION; FISSION TRACK ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTICA, TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS, SCOTT GLACIER;

EID: 0030754452     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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