Age Assessment of Eocene-Pliocene Drill Cores Recovered During the SHALDRIL II Expedition, Antarctic Peninsula

Tectonic, Climatic, and Cryospheric Evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 63-113

  Bohaty, Steven M ^a,b   Kulhanek, Denise K ^c,d   Wise, Sherwood W ^c   Jemison, Kelly ^c   Warny, Sophie ^e   Sjunneskog, Charlotte ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic Peninsula; Biostratigraphy; Calcareous nannofossils; Diatoms; SHALDRIL; Strontium isotopes

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; INFILL DRILLING; ISOTOPES; RECOVERY; TECTONICS;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSILS; DIATOMS; SHALDRIL; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES;

CORE DRILLING;

EID: 84886808175     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/2010SP001049     Document Type: Chapter

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