Structure of the Deep Freeze Range-Eisenhower Range of the Wilson Terrane (North Victoria Land, Antarctica): Emplacement of magmatic intrusions in the Early Palaeozoic deformed margin of the East Antarctic Craton

Antarctic Science

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 89-104

  Musumeci, Giovanni ^a   Pertusati, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Intrusive magmatism; North Victoria Land; Ross Orogen; Transpressional tectonics

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; MAGMATISM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONICS;

ANTARCTICA; DEEP FREEZE RANGE; EISENHOWER RANGE; VICTORIA LAND;

EID: 0034163010     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0954102000000122     Document Type: Article

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