A customised GIS to aid Gondwana Research

Gondwana Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 287-292

  Winterton, Rose L ^a   Livermore, Roy A ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GIS; Gondwana break up; Large igneous provinces; Paleogeography; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ARCGIS; DATA SET; GONDWANA; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SIEVING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THEMATIC MAPPING;

EID: 0742319392     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70326-9     Document Type: Article

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