East Antarctic rifting triggers uplift of the Gamburtsev Mountains

Nature

Volumn 479, Issue 7373, 2011, Pages 388-392

  Ferraccioli, Faust ^a   Finn, Carol A ^b   Jordan, Tom A ^a   Bell, Robin E ^c   Anderson, Lester M ^a   Damaske, Detlef ^d  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EROSION RATE; GLACIAL EROSION; ICE SHEET; MAGNETIC METHOD; PERMIAN; PROTEROZOIC; RIFT ZONE; RIFTING; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ENVIRONMENTAL EROSION; GAMBURTSEV SUBGLACIAL MOUNTAIN; GRAVITY; ICE SHEET; LITHOSPHERE; MAGNET; PERMIAN; PRECAMBRIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEROZOIC; TELECOMMUNICATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; GAMBURTSEV MOUNTAINS;

EID: 81555220961     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10566     Document Type: Article

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