Integrated provenance and detrital thermochronology studies on the ANDRILL AND-2A drill core: Late Oligocene-Early Miocene exhumation of the Transantarctic Mountains (southern Victoria Land, Antarctica)

Terra Nova

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 361-368

  Zattin, Massimiliano ^a   Talarico, Franco M ^b   Sandroni, Sonia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CORE ANALYSIS; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; DRILLING; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; GLACIER DYNAMICS; ICE SHEET; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PROVENANCE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

ANTARCTICA; TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS;

EID: 77956471847     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2010.00958.x     Document Type: Article

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