High-grade crystalline basement of the northwestern Wilson Terrane at Oates Coast: New petrological and geochronological data and implications for its tectonometamorphic evolution

Terra Antartica

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 15-34

  Schüssler, Uli ^a   Henjes Kunst, F ^b   Talarico, F ^c   Flottmann T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^d Santos Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; GEOCHRONOLOGY; P-T CONDITIONS; PETROLOGY; RETROGRADE METAMORPHISM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; EAST ANTARCTICA; OATES COAST; WORLD;

MICA;

EID: 12844276609     PISSN: 11228628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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