Distinct Magma Pulses in the Ferrar Tholeiites of Thern Promontory (Victoria Land, Antarctica)

Terra Antarctica

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-39

  Antonini, P ^a   Demarchi, G ^a   Plccirillo, E M ^a   Orsi, G ^a  

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