Combined titanite and apatite fission-track data from Gjelsvikfjella, east antarctica - Another piece of a concealed intracontinental Permo-Triassic Gondwana rift basin?

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 324, Issue , 2009, Pages 317-330

  Emmel, B ^a   Jacobs, J ^a,b   Daszinnies, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; COOLING; FISSION TRACK DATING; GONDWANA; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; RIFT ZONE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TITANITE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; GJELSVIKFJELLA; QUEEN MAUD LAND;

EID: 74949098350     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP324.21     Document Type: Article

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