Geology of volcanic rocks (?Upper Cretaceous - Lower Tertiary) at Potter Peninsula, King George Island (South Shetland Islands, West Antarctica)

Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 147-155

  Birkenmajer, Krzysztof ^a  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

?Upper Cretaceous; King George Island; Tertiary; Volcanics; West Antarctica

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CRETACEOUS; VOLCANIC ROCK;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0032462250     PISSN: 02397277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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