Airborne gravity over Lake Vostok and adjacent highlands of East Antarctica

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Holt, John W ^a   Richter, Thomas G ^a   Kempf, Scott D ^a   Morse, David L ^a   Blankenship, Donald D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne geophysics; Antarctica; Gravity; Lake Vostok

Indexed keywords

EID: 36949018362     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GC001177     Document Type: Article

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