The Wiley Glacier complex, Antarctic Peninsula: Pluton growth by pulsing of granitoid magmas

Chemical Geology

Volumn 143, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 65-80

  Wareham, Christopher D ^a   Vaughan, Alan P M ^a   Millar, Ian L ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antartic; Arc; Dyke; Granitoid

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; GRANITOID; MAGMA PULSING; PLUTONISM;

ANTARCTICA, ANTARCTIC PENINSULA, WILEY GLACIER;

EID: 0031407585     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(97)00100-9     Document Type: Article

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