Joint Italian-British petrological-palaeoenvironmental investigations of Neogene volcanic sequences in northern Victoria Land

Terra Antartica Reports

Volumn , Issue 13, 2007, Pages 103-110

  Smellie, J L ^a   Rocchi, S ^b   Armienti, P ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; ICE SHEET; LITHOFACIES; NEOGENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PETROLOGY; SEA ICE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; VICTORIA LAND;

EID: 37049001087     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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