Eocene initiation of Ross Sea dextral faulting and implications for East Antarctic neotectonics

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 119-126

  Rossetti, Federico ^a   Storti, Fabrizio ^a   Busetti, Martina ^b   Lisker, Frank ^c   di Vincenzo, Gianfranco ^d   Läufer, Andreas L ^e   Rocchi, Sergio ^f   Salvini, Francesco ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d CNR   (Italy)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOCENE; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; NEOTECTONICS; TECTONICS;

ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 29244476529     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-764905-005     Document Type: Article

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