Cenozoic strike-slip faulting from the eastern margin of the Wilkes Subglacial Basin to the western margin of the Ross Sea Rift: An aeromagnetic connection

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 210, Issue , 2003, Pages 109-133

  Ferraccioli, Fausto ^a,b   Bozzo, Emanuele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY; CENOZOIC; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING;

ANTARCTICA; ROSS SEA;

EID: 0141725873     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.210.01.07     Document Type: Article

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