Table nunatak: A key outcrop of upper cretaceous shallow-marine strata in the southern Larsen Basin, Antarctic Peninsula

Geological Magazine

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 519-535

  Hathway, B ^a   Macdonald, D I M ^a,c   Riding, J B ^b   Cantrill, D J ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0343985311     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756898001241     Document Type: Article

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