The uplift/denudation history of the Shackleton Range (Antarctica) based on fission-track analyses

Terra Antarctica

Volumn 6, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 345-352

  Lisker, F ^a   Schafer, T ^a   Olesch, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DENUDATION; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; JURASSIC; UPLIFT;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0033494423     PISSN: 11228628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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