Late Miocene paleoenvironment of the Lambert Graben embayment, East Antarctica, evident from: Mollusc paleontology, sedimentology and geochemistry

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 50, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 127-147

  Whitehead, Jason M ^a   Ehrmann, Werner ^b   Harwood, David M ^c   Hillenbrand, Claus Dieter ^d   Quilty, Patrick G ^a   Hart, Charles ^e   Taviani, Marco ^f   Thorn, Vanessa ^g   McMinn, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f CNR   (Italy)

^g VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Amery Oasis; Battye Glacier Formation; East Greenland; fjord; mollusc

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERAL; EROSION; FOSSIL; MELTWATER; MIOCENE; MOLLUSC; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRECAMBRIAN;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; EAST ANTARCTICA; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND;

HIATELLA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 33646371977     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2005.07.003     Document Type: Article

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