Exhumational History of the Margins of Drake Passage from Thermochronology and Sediment Provenance

Tectonic, Climatic, and Cryospheric Evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 35-49

  Barbeau, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Circumpolar circulation; Drake Passage; Marine gateway; Sediment provenance; Tectonics; Thermochronology

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; FISSION REACTIONS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD ALLOYS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS; URANIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCON;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; CURRENT ESTIMATES; DETRITAL ZIRCON; DRAKE PASSAGE; LATE CRETACEOUS; SEDIMENT PROVENANCE; SIMILAR DATUM; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

SEDIMENTS;

EID: 84886848209     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/2010SP000992     Document Type: Chapter

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