The Bruce rise area, east Antarctica: Formation of a continental margin near the Greater India - Australia - Antarctica triple junction

Terra Antartica

Volumn 13, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 3-22

  Stagg, Howard M J ^a   Colwell, J B ^a   Borissova, I ^a   Ishihara, T ^b   Bernardel, G ^a  

^a Petroleum and Marine Division   (Australia)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CRETACEOUS; FAULTING; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; JURASSIC; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; OCEANIC CRUST; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEISMIC DATA; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ANTARCTICA; ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EAST ANTARCTICA; ENDERBY LAND; EURASIA; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; KERGUELEN PLATEAU; SHACKLETON RANGE; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33947319511     PISSN: 11228628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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