The upper lithostratigraphic unit of ANDRILL AND-2A core (Southern McMurdo Sound, Antarctica): Local Pleistocene volcanic sources, paleoenvironmental implications and subsidence in the southern Victoria Land Basin

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 142-161

  Del Carlo, P ^a   Panter, K S ^b   Bassett, K ^c   Bracciali, L ^d   Di Vincenzo, G ^e   Rocchi, S ^d  

^a SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^e CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Erebus Volcanic Province; paleoenvironment reconstruction; Victoria Land Basin; volcaniclastic sediments

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASEMENT ROCK; DRILLING; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; SEAMOUNT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SUBSIDENCE; TEPHRA;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO SOUND; VICTORIA LAND BASIN;

EID: 71849085747     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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