Cenozoic climatic change in Antarctica recorded by volcanic activity and landscape evolution

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 617-620

  Armienti, Pietro ^a   Baroni, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; ICE CONTROL; TOPOGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; PLEISTOCENE EPOCH; POLAR CONDITIONS; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES;

POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS;

CENOZOIC; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PALEOCLIMATE; VOLCANISM;

ANTARCTICA; VICTORIA LAND;

EID: 0032717725     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0617:CCCIAR>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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