Cenozoic motion between East and West Antarctica

Nature

Volumn 404, Issue 6774, 2000, Pages 145-150

  Cande, Steven C ^a   Stock, Joann M ^b   Müller, R Dietmar ^d   Ishihara, Takemi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MARGIN; CENOZOIC; PLATE MOTION; RIFT ZONE;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; GEOLOGY; GRAVITY; MAGNETISM; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0034624752     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35004501     Document Type: Article

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