Petrography and provenance of basement clasts in CIROS-1 core, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

Terra Antartica

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 93-114

  Sandroni, S ^a   Talarico, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAST; DIABASE; EOCENE; GRANITOID; MIOCENE; PETROLOGY; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTATION;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO SOUND; WORLD;

VICTORIA;

EID: 12844287606     PISSN: 11228628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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