Denudational and thermal history along a transect across the Lambert Graben, northern Prince Charles Mountains, Antarctica, derived from apatite fission track thermochronology

Tectonics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Lisker, Frank ^a   Brown, Roderick ^b   Fabel, Derek ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gondwana; Landscape evolution; Paleotemperature; Rifting

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DENUDATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; GONDWANA; GRABEN; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; LAMBERT GLACIER;

EID: 2142643322     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002TC001477     Document Type: Article

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