The crustal structure and sedimentation of the Weddell Sea embayment: Implications for Gondwana reconstructions

Tectonophysics

Volumn 327, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 195-212

  King, E C ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Continental margin; Rifting; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GONDWANA; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

ANTARCTICA; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 0034482493     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(00)00169-4     Document Type: Article

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