Linking the Wilkes Subglacial Basin, the Transantarctic Mountains, and the Ross Sea with a new airborne gravity survey

Terra Antartica Reports

Volumn , Issue 13, 2007, Pages 37-54

  Jordan, Tom ^a   Ferraccioli, F ^a   Corr, H ^a   Robinson, C ^a   Caneva, G ^b   Armadillo, E ^b   Bozzo, E ^b   Frearson, N ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SURVEY; GRAVITY SURVEY;

ANTARCTICA; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS;

EID: 36949038938     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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