Falkland Plateau evolution and a mobile southernmost South America

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 153, Issue , 1999, Pages 403-408

  Barker, P F ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; GONDWANA; RIFTING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033395060     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.24     Document Type: Article

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