Uplift of the Transantarctic Mountains and the bedrock beneath the East Antarctic ice sheet

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 102, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 27603-27621

  Ten Brink, Uri S ^a   Hackney, Ron I ^b,c   Bannister, Stephen ^d   Stern, Tim A ^b   Makovsky, Yizhaq ^e  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; OROGENESIS; TECTONICS; UPLIFT;

ANTARCTICA, TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0031433745     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97jb02483     Document Type: Article

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