Ice wedges in the Terra Nova Bay Region (Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica) distribution and morphological features

Terra Antartica Reports

Volumn , Issue 8, 2003, Pages 143-148

  Raffi, R ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE SHEET; MORPHOLOGY;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; TERRA NOVA BAY;

EID: 1842778888     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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