Processes and products of grounding-line fans from the Permian Pagoda Formation, Antarctica: Insight into glacigenic conditions in polar Gondwana

Gondwana Research

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 161-172

  Koch, Zelenda J ^a   Isbell, John L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Glacimarine; Grounding line fan; Late Paleozoic Ice Age

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GLACIER RETREAT; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; GONDWANA; ICE SHEET; MELTWATER; PERMIAN;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84877111654     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2012.10.005     Document Type: Article

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