A Different Look at Gateways: Drake Passage and Australia/Antarctica

Tectonic, Climatic, and Cryospheric Evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 5-33

  Lawver, Lawrence A ^a   Gahagan, Lisa M ^a   Dalziel, Ian W D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Antarctic Marginal Gravity Highs; Drake Passage; Gateways; Southern Ocean; Tasmanian Gateway

Indexed keywords

GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS);

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; ANTARCTIC MARGINAL GRAVITY HIGHS; ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; DRAKE PASSAGE; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

EID: 84886815727     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/2010SP001017     Document Type: Chapter

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